Product Owner

**Req ID**: 68845
**Department**: Tech ARC Home Loans
**Division**: Technology
**Location**: Bengaluru
About Us
About the Role
As a Product Owner in Home Loans, you are responsible for ensuring the squad achieve their mission. The Product Owner constantly prioritises tasks and the squad’s backlog with the customer at the heart of their decision making. The Product Owner also ensures that the work is strategically aligned to the tribe mission and engages with other Product Owners to align and manage interdependencies. Whilst this role is not a people manager, it is a key leadership role, galvanising the squad around a vision and supporting them to successfully deliver customer value at pace.
Banking is changing and we’re changing with it, giving our people great opportunities to try new things, learn and grow. Whatever your role at ANZ, you’ll be building your future, while helping to build ours.
What will your day look like?
As a Product Owner, your role is to enable and inspire a multi-disciplinary team to pursue its mission, by guiding them on 'what' work should be completed by the squad. The Product Owner constantly prioritises tasks and the squad’s backlog with the customer at the heart of their decision making. The Product Owner also ensures that the work is strategically aligned to the tribe mission and engages with other Product Owners to align and manage interdependencies. Whilst this role is not a people manager, it is a key leadership role, galvanising the squad around a vision and supporting them to successfully deliver customer value at pace.
This Product Owner role will have responsibilities across two areas:
**Squad**: This role sits in an Initiatives and Delivery squad and will be responsible for driving and managing the elaboration through to the implementation of projects and initiatives across multiple platforms.
**Tribe**: By enabling the squad to complete their work, you will be contributing to our strategic objectives and managing the Tribe’s risk profile.
What will you bring?
To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:
Have demonstrable experience in project delivery - both business and technology
Ability to actively engage in the whole delivery lifecycle (design, development, testing, deployment, operation, monitoring and refinement) of systems and services
Be a strong influencer, have the ability to communicate and work with multiple stake-holder groups and have particular strength in bringing multiple teams/capabilities together to achieve a single mission
Strong risk and issue management capabilities and experience
Demonstrates in-depth customer & business insights and acts as an advocate to enhance the customer experience.
Strong interpersonal skills, including experience of leading large teams, coaching and mentoring a team
Maintains commitment to change; engages with others to gain buy-in and act as an advocate for continuous improvement. Proactively identifies, support and drive opportunities for change
A problem solver - energised by tackling complex problems. Using critical thinking, network, skills, knowledge and available data to drive better outcomes for our customers and the bank
A background/understanding of home loans and familiarity with the tools and processes in those areas will be favourable.
You’re not expected to have 100% of these skills. At ANZ a growth mindset is at the heart of our culture, so if you have most of these things in your toolbox, we’d love to hear from you.
So why join us?
ANZ is a place where big things happen as we work together to provide banking and financial services across more than 30 markets. With more than 7,500 people, our Bengaluru team is the bank's largest technology, data and operations centre outside Australia. In operation for over 33 years, the centre is critical in delivering the bank's strategy and making an impact for our millions of customers around the world. Our Bengaluru team not only drives the transformation initiatives of the bank, it also drives a culture that makes ANZ a great place to be. We're proud that people feel they can be themselves at ANZ and 90 percent of our people feel they belong.
We know our people need different things to be great in their role, so we offer a range of flexible working options, including hybrid work (where the role allows it). Our people also enjoy a range of benefits including access to health and wellbeing services.