Product Owner

Job ID: 33799

Location: Bangalore, IN

Area of interest: Operations

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 11 Sept 2025

Job Summary

• The GBS Product Owner will provide support under Risk and CFCC Change to drive and execute Surveillance change initiatives.
• In this function, the PO is responsible for delivering the vision, product backlog management, overseeing development stages, acting as primary liaison between product managers and technology, evaluating product progress at each iteration, risk and conflict management, stakeholder management, budgeting, running the Governance forums and driving the end-to-end delivery of the project successfully.

Key Responsibilities

• Take the lead as the Product Owner and drive commitment from key stakeholders to execute Surviellance Change projects (Trade Surveillance)
• Lead multiple Agile Squads as product owner.
• Collaborates with various teams/stakeholders to deliver objectives
• Executes product vision, roadmap, and identifies growth opportunities
• Elicit requirements from change perspective aligned to the overall objectives of the initiative/program
• Responsible for end-to-end delivery of the project while liaising with business and tech teams
• Plan and prioritize the backlog in alignment with Change Delivery Standards
• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
• Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
• Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
• Deep understanding of industry trends and client needs, ability to create a value proposition and a squad vision
• Ability to support third party vendor / product onboarding and platform upgrades.

Key stakeholders

• Surviellance 2 LOD Owners, Compliance Advisory, 1LOD Owners, Technology

Qualifications

• Bachelor or higher degree
• 7+ year work experience as Product Owner on change initiatives preferably in Compliance/Risk
• Agile delivery role certifications (Product Owner, Scrum Master) or related project management certifications.
• Nice to have: Risk related Certifications (FRM), CFA, ICA

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Product ownership, Business Analysis and Project Management
• Agile Software Development Methodologies
• Communication, and presentation skills.
• Organizational and time management skills
• Stakeholder management skills
• Analytical and problem-solving skills

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.