Product Owner

Job ID: 35849

Location: Chennai, IN

Area of interest: Retail Banking

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 30 Jul 2025

**Job Summary**
- The role holder will be part of Wealth Management Core Platform Hive and be accountable for delivery of Core Platform hive changes as well as lead/support the achievement of Hive OKRs. As an empowered decision maker, Product owner will be accountable for maximising the business value of their product.

**Key Responsibilities**

**PO-specific responsibilities**
- Accountable for delivering their product's contribution to the Business plan and QPR scorecard
- Continuous Backlog management; expressing Backlog items clearly and in a consumable format
- Optimise value delivery through continuous improvement, gathering feedback from relevant stakeholders / SMEs / customers and prioritisation of backlog
- Create transparency around backlog item progress, blockers, impediments, dependencies
- Is a core member of the squad, 100% dedicated to the role
- Ensure the voices of clients and relevant stakeholders are represented
- Working with the Scrum Master and squad members to build an empowered, high performing team in a psychologically safe environment
- Ensure all artefacts and assurance deliverables are as per the required standards and policies (e.g. nWOWS, CGP)
- Ensure regular engagement and management of Process Change, Operational and Delivery Risk for their backlog (and all other relevant Risk requirements)
- Leading between 5 and 8 squads

**Strategy**
- Manage and track execution progress of approved initiatives to drive the Transformation agenda.
- Support the development of the Core Wealth Platform strategic direction and roadmap, in alignment with the business strategy and investment appetite.
- Work with WM Hive leads to ensure project deliveries are effectively implemented across geographies.

**Business**
- Maintain strong stakeholder engagement with WM Business, COO/ Operations, T&I, Risk & Compliance and Group Internal Audit to ensure alignment across stakeholder groups to support the tribe deliverables
- Ensure appropriate representation across the stakeholder groups in delivery forums.
- Escalate appropriately to ensure key stakeholders like Cluster Lead, Hive Lead, Hive Tech Lead and Chief product owner are updated and able to intervene as required.

**Processes**
- Role holder will be execution of the strategy and identifying opportunities for streamline the operational processes through automation, OpEx and other initiatives.
- Continuously improve productivity and efficiency of operations and drive standardisation agenda for WM Core Wealth Platform Hive, maintaining rigorous cost and investment discipline across the business.
- Ensure appropriate and insightful data and analytics that can drive business decisions.
- Maintain strong stakeholder engagement with WM Business, COO/ Operations, T&I, Risk & Compliance and Group Internal Audit to ensure alignment across stakeholder groups to support the Hive deliverables

**People & Talent**
- Demonstrate and act as a role model of the Group’s values and culture in the region
- Lead and support a change in mindset, building a culture of client centricity, agility, and accountability through standardised metrics and measurement
- Set effective metrics and standards, transparently communicating them to squads
- Ensure squad capacity is reviewed to enable delivery of client outcomes.

**Risk Management**
- Risk control and governance: ensuring oversight and driving improvement in the control & resilience agenda.
- Developing a forward-looking end-to-end view across Wealth Management environment and proactively identifying and escalating issues and sharing themes / lessons learnt.

**Governance**
- Adherence to policies and control standards, ensuring compliance and operation within risk tolerance and risk appetite.
- Maintain awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework in which the Bank operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.
- Responsible for delivering ‘effective governance’ within the deliverables and possessing the ability to constructively challenge relevant stakeholders and teams effectively.
- Ability and willingness to work through details with relevant control functions in an open and collaborative manner to achieve the desired governance outcome within the bank’s risk appetite.
- Work with global teams in Risk, Compliance and COO Office to ensure adherence to the Bank’s Risk framework, in the identification, assessment, mitigation, control and monitoring of risk.

**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 law