Job Summary

As a Product Owner in our cross-functional squads, the candidate will drive the outcomes of the squad to deliver on their objectives and key results. You will build and prioritize the product backlog to achieve business goals and manage stakeholder relationships to align expectation, prioritization and overall product roadmap. 

The primary purpose of this position is to develop and transform CMPS product capability to provide digital channels for both clients and internal users across Private Banking and Retail Banking.

The Bank is aiming to grow product capability through digital and self-direct channels. This Product Owner (PO) role is to drive the agile technology projects to establish a robust price discovery and execution platform. It is also required to build system interface with upstream systems (e.g. client information check) and downstream systems (e.g. booking trades into core banking platforms) to streamline operation flow and improve users (including clients) experience and frontline productivity.

Key Responsibilities

As PO, you will develop and maintain a vision for agile technology projects and be responsible for communicating the vision to the scrum team. Be responsible for agile technology projects and features from concept to final implementation. In particular,

• have a good understanding of wealth management products, it's processes and relevance to clients.  
• Define and own the strategic digital product vision and roadmap for the wealth management product suite.
• Align product strategy with business goals, market trends, and client needs.
• Develop a competitive product strategy across relevant asset classes (such as FX, equities, fixed income, structured products, OTC derivatives, funds, and insurance.)
• Monitor market dynamics and regulatory changes, ensuring products remain competitive and compliant.

As PO you will work with architects, business stakeholders and development teams to ensure that business, quality and functional goals are met with each release. Be responsible for the design, usability, quality and delivery of agile technology projects and features.

As the subject matter expert, this role is to determine business requirements, review technology project plans from the business perspective, and ensure new technology capabilities are embedded in business processes to deliver benefits. Ensure smooth execution on the ground, and communicate the changes delivered to relevant stakeholders including front office.

Skills and Experience

• Minimum of 5-8 years of experience in wealth management, investment banking, or financial services.
• Good understanding of wealth management products and asset classes (example FX, equities, fixed income, structured products, OTC derivatives, funds, and insurance.)
• Relevant knowledge of regulatory and operational frameworks in wealth management.
• Preferred: Understanding of global wealth management market trends.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree from reputable university.
• Project Management / System Development or equivalent
• mandatory & developmental – role specific and regulatory/compliance bank wide specific.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.