Job Summary

Associate Product Manager

UAE National with family book required

About myZoi
myZoi is an exciting fintech start-up aiming to promote financial inclusion globally. Our vision is to provide a level playing field to the unbanked and the underbanked in accessing essential financial services in an affordable, convenient, and transparent fashion. We are looking for smart, ambitious, and purpose driven individuals to join us in this journey.

The Opportunity

Our mission is to disrupt financial services for the unbanked and underbanked. Our Product team are at the heart of our venture; working collaboratively to do something that’s never been done and have a significant impact on people’s lives.

We need a solutions-focused Associate Product Manager to operate at an exciting intersection of product development, product management, and customer experience. It will allow you to work closely with a team of colleagues with vast experience on a future-focused project with a defined purpose.

Key Role and Responsibilities

Your Role

• Support product team to implement myZoi’s product roadmap, product strategy, and different product initiatives.
• Work closely with the Product Leads, Tech Leads, and Development team to gather and document business requirements.
• Support product team to conduct research on users, competition, and market to identify customer needs and product gaps.
• Support product team to translate product roadmap into minimum viable product iterations.
• Work with Product Leads and development team’s Business Analysts to create well-defined features/user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Support product team with preparing and executing test cases and recording test results.
• Gather product data, including customer analytics, statistics, and customer trends.
• Build knowledge of the regulatory framework in which myZoi operates and initiatives of local industry bodies to stay ahead of the regulatory change agenda and how it affects the product lifecycle.
• Be a champion and support, implement agile and human-centred design principles.

Your Skills

Strategic yet hands-on, you are comfortable in a fast-paced environment and excited to collaborate, putting the user needs at the heart of everything you do. You are passionate about creatively framing and solving complex business problems, pushing the boundaries of product design.

You know how to navigate through ambiguity and use your creativity to ask the right questions that lead to the correct answers. You are skilled in involving the right people at the right time in the right way, and really know how to excite, inspire, and empower within collaborative teams.

Qualifications & Requirements

• University Degree in computer science, engineering, business management, or a related field
• Knowledge of design principles and agile processes, such as Scrum, Kanban
• Experience in Software Product Management, Business Analysis, or Software Development
• Experience with financial institution, preferably in Retail Products, Digital Banking Initiatives preferred
• Understanding the Customer Experience design and user experience principles
• Project management experience preferred
• Knowledge of Jira, Confluence, Trello, and similar collaboration tools
• Understanding of key technology concepts, Query languages like SQL and Spark SQL, basics in logical/physical data models, python functional programming, and architecture is a plus.