Product Owner

Job ID: 37535

Location: Chennai, IN

Area of interest: Operations

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 26 Aug 2025

**Job Summary**
- Lead the capability to realise business value through the creation and delivery of a product roadmap and its associated product backlog
- Lead the valuation of business initiatives, requirements gathering and produce analysis artefacts to drive change initiatives: operating model, process maps and business requirements
- Support the engagement of key stakeholders across client facing divisions, product areas, Legal and Compliance and Financial Crime Risk, etc.
- Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements
- Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the business initiatives and collaboration on epics and user stories

**Key Responsibilities**

**Business**
- Ensure the voices of clients and relevant stakeholders are represented
- Develop an understanding of all areas of the Group CLM Policy and Procedures as a foundation for creating supportive relationships with Policy and Process teams
- Within sprints, 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 an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
- Research and analyse market, the users, and the roadmap for the product, feeding this into the Product ownership team
- Follow our competitors and the industry
- Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends
- Empowered decision maker from the 1st Line
- Accountable for Maximizing the business value of their product
- Delivering their 'product's' contribution to the Business plan and QPR scorecard
- Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on
- Optimize value delivery through continuous improvement, feedback from relevant stakeholders /SMEs/ customers and prioritization of backlog
- Develop and maintain the product vision and roadmap with (C)POs, squads and stakeholders
- Continuous Backlog management; expressing Backlog items clearly and in a consumable format
- Create transparency around backlog item progress, blockers, impediments, dependencies, and product value delivery via metrics
- Is present at all required ceremonies/events to provide early and continuous feedback and prioritisation
- Ensure all artefacts and assurance deliverables are as per the required standards and policies (e.g., nWOWS, CGP)

**People & Talent**
- Is a core member of the team, 100% dedicated to the role. They may support more than one team, only if the team's backlog items are derived from the same Product Backlog.
- Work with Scrum Master and squad members to build an empowered, high performing team in a psychologically-safe environment

**Risk Management**
- Ensure regular engagement and management of Process Change, Operational and Delivery Risk for their backlog (and all other relevant Risk requirement)

**Governance**
- Ensure compliance with delivery model governance, refinement forums, monthly and quarterly performance reviews
- Ensure support for Risk Framework Owners from CFCC, Operational Risk and Cybersecurity

**Regulatory & Business Conduct**
- Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
- Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

**Key stakeholders**
- CCIB business stakeholders, CCIB COO including Client Management and CLDM and Technology

**Qualifications**
- A minimum of 10+ years’ experience as a Business Analyst is required
- A minimum of 2+ years’ experience as a Product Owner is required
- Must have - Hands on experience as a Product Owner in writing business initiatives, business cases, epics, features, user stories and working with scrum team
- Good working knowledge of international banking; experience in Wholesale Banking, especially in the client on-boarding and/or due diligence (KYC), Tax (FATCA, CRS), Regulations (MIFID, EMIR, Dodd Frank) or applicable product knowledge is highly preferable
- Certification in Product Ownership, Business Analysis, CBAP/ Agile methodology / Scrum master is added advantage

**Skills and Experience**
- Outstanding presentation skills and highly effective verbal and written English communication skills
- Ability to effectively communicate business priorities, complex concepts and models and business information to a technical and non-technical audience at analyst and senio