Product Owner

We are looking for a highly skilled Product Owner with strong expertise in the Risk & Controls domain, especially in Risk Control SelfAssessment (RCSA), monitoring, and testing platforms. The ideal candidate will have proven experience working in Agile environments and collaborating with crossfunctional teams across business, risk, compliance, and technology.

This role operates across multiple Scrum teams, requiring strong dependency management, risk identification, and stakeholder coordination. Experience with AIenabled capabilities, intelligent automation, or advanced analytics is an added advantage.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Product Vision & Strategy:

Define, own, and communicate the product vision and value stream strategy for risk and control capabilities.

Align product direction with business goals, regulatory needs, and enterprise architecture standards.

• Backlog & Agile Delivery:

Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring clear prioritization of highvalue features.

Lead story mapping, functional design, backlog refinement, sprint planning, and feature prioritization.

Continuously assess business needs, refine priorities, manage milestones, and identify delivery risks or dependencies.

• Collaboration & Stakeholder Management:

Partner closely with technology, engineering, architecture, data, and compliance teams to build scalable product solutions.

Facilitate requirement gathering and backlog decomposition to create clear user stories with strong acceptance criteria.

Inspire and motivate Scrum teams to achieve sprint and product goals.

• Delivery Governance & Quality:

Participate in testing, review sessions, and production release validation.

Accept completed work and ensure all deliverables meet quality and compliance standards.

Identify and manage crossteam and crossplatform dependencies early in the development lifecycle.

• Risk Management & Reporting:

Proactively identify delivery risks, integration challenges, and data dependencies.

Track and measure product performance, postlaunch metrics, and ROI for future investments.

Communicate risks, dependencies, and status updates clearly to leadership.

• Continuous Improvement:

Establish strong feedback loops with stakeholders and incorporate insights into the backlog.

Promote an OKRdriven culture to align teams on outcomes and shared goals.

Support informed decisionmaking by evaluating tradeoffs and downstream impacts.

Technical Requirement:

• 59 years of experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or similar role in Technology Risk & Controls, RCSA, or Compliance platforms.
• Strong expertise in:

User story writing

Story mapping

Backlog management

Scrum ceremonies

• Deep understanding of Risk & Controls frameworks, including RCSA.
• Exceptional communication, stakeholder engagement, and decisionmaking skills.
• Strong analytical, problemsolving, and crossteam collaboration abilities.
• Proven track record of delivering products within deadlines and meeting enterprise expectations.
• Handson experience with agile tools such as Atlassian Jira, Confluence, and MS Teams.
• Familiarity with Agile testing, Engineering practices (TDD, BDD), and software development processes.
• Advanced Product Owner certifications (e.g., CSPO, PSPO).

Good to have:

• Exposure to AI, machine learning, or advanced analytics within risk and control environments.
• Experience contributing to AIenabled monitoring, automation, or intelligent insights platforms.
• Ability to partner with data, engineering, and platform teams to integrate AI/ML features into control systems.
• Understanding of AI governance, model explainability, and risk management standards.