Senior Product Manager at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

As a Senior Product Manager, you will be expected to:

• Engage with stakeholders across the business units, as well as the centralised SFT teams, including marketing and brand, technology, data and infosec, finance, risk and compliance, to align product objectives with business objectives within your assigned domain
• Drive the acquisition, analysis and interpretation of customer research and behavioural data for making appropriate product decisions within your assigned domain, to realise both customer and business value
• Establish a healthy, agile product backlog and make key prioritisation decisions in collaboration with stakeholders
• Work with a Tech Lead to guide an agile, cross-functional product team to build, test, release and launch software products and features
• Measure what matters and ensure sprint goals move meaningful product metrics in support of our business objectives
• Ensure non-functional requirements, including security, compliance, auditing and customer data objectives, are met 
• Ensure quality practices and appropriate metrics are in place in the team, in collaboration with the Tech Lead
• Manage all feedback and communication to stakeholders of team progress
• Motivate and lead the team through the many challenges they will face to achieve the team’s mission – however, this is not a line management role.

Qualifications and Experience

• At least 7 years of experience building software products in agile teams
• Experience leading a cross-functional product team as a product manager, product owner or comparable role
• Experience building financial products and a broad understanding of financial services customer journeys
• Experience building mobile products a distinct advantage

Knowlege and Skills

• Experience making key product decisions regarding what to build and when to build it
• Experience engaging with senior stakeholders and expectation management
• Experience with agile productivity software (JIRA, Confluence, etc)
• Understands Jobs To Be Done approaches
• Understands User Stories and Story Mapping
• Understands common product prioritisation frameworks and can apply them (WSJF/Cost of delay, RICE, MoSCoW, etc)
• Comfortable with common techniques for running agile ceremonies such as Refinement, Sprint Planning, Standups, Retrospectives
• Capable of analysing and interpreting product data to support decision making 
• Firm understanding of successful agile and lean product approaches in the Fintech space or comparable industry
• Stays abreast of new Fintech innovation and competitor moves