Product Owner, AVP

Job Title: Product Owner, AVP

Location: Pune, India

Role Description

Product Owner – Transaction Monitoring

• Guide team members in adopting Scrum principles and practices, and help them improve their skills and collaboration.

• Foster a positive and productive team environment, encouraging open communication, conflict resolution, and collaboration.

• Empower team members to take ownership of their work, make decisions, and solve problems.

• Facilitate knowledge sharing and skill development within the team, and encourage collaboration with other teams.

• Help team members provide and receive constructive feedback, and facilitate continuous improvement efforts.

• Help resolve conflicts and impediments that may arise within the team, and facilitate open discussions to find solutions.

• Facilitate communication abd collaboration between the team and stekeholders, ensuring that expectations are aligned and managed.

• The role doesn't have a direct Line Management however, the people skills are critical tobe successful in this role.

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What we'll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you'll enjoy

• Best in class leave policy

• Gender neutral parental leaves

• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)

• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education

• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members

• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents

• Accident and Term life Insurance

• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

• Develop, Create, and communicate Product Vision and Roadmap with the Business Owners, Delivery Teams & Solution/System Architects

• Serves as the strategic Product Owner for heritage NICE Actimize platforms (e.g, ActOne, PRIME, AMS), driving the transition toward Strategic AML solutions on Google Cloud (GCP)

• Translate business objectives, regulatory expectations, and investigative needs into a prioritized product roadmap that enables compliance, efficiency, and risk reduction

• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders—including Compliance, FCO, Data Engineering—to align feature development with business priorities and migration milestones

• Ensure development work is tightly aligned to user value and strategic goals

• Own the product vision for the migration to SAM working closely with several teams to define integration points, decommissioning timelines and MVP delivery plans

• Monitor and track the progress of the platform transition, proactively resolving blockers, refining scope, and communicating impact to leadership and delivery teams

• Champion continuous improvement across Agile ways of working, contributing to velocity gains, improved stakeholder visibility and enhanced delivery predictability

• Act as a change leader, supporting business readiness, user adoption, and training efforts to ensure successful platform onboarding and operational continuity

• Define and govern the end-to-end delivery in Agile Framework across AFC Domain where you would be driving agile ceremonies linking to Backlog Refinements, Demos, Review and Planning

• Define and Communicate Product Vision and roadmap in partnership with stakeholders and engineering

• Develop as an SME and primary point of contact liaison with all relevant stakeholders in Business and Engineering, giving them timely, transparent, and metric driven updates.

• Ensure adherence to both the Bank's and domain's testing standards with focus on achieving further efficiencies and benefits through automated testing.

• Provide management, leadership, and technical/domain guidance to teams across multiple locations and senior escalation point for all stakeholders.

• Participate in the end-to-end development cycle working closely with squad teams following the domain's development model.

Your skills and experience

Technical / Domain Skills

• 10+ years' experience as Product Owner and Product management in an agile environment

• 5+ years' experience working in Financial Services or consultancy, ideally in Anti-Financial Crime and Anti-Money Laundering

• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to communicate at all levels of seniority with proven experience in successfully driving roadmaps and delivery of large-scale Regulatory, Risk, Data or Transformation Programs

• Proven experience and evidencing prioritization techniques, refinement, grooming and challenges with the Backlog management.

• Knowledge and experience of AML Finance domain. Good to have experience in any phase of Transaction Monitoring and Reporting.

• Experience with Agile Testing & Engineering techniques would be a plus

• Experience with JIRA and Confluence

Soft Skills

• Agile & Product mindset

• Strong Analytical skills

• Ability to work in virtual teams and in matrix organizations

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal

• Evidence of Team Player, Mentoring or driving Team objectives

Education/ Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited college or university with a concentration in Computer Science or Software Engineering (or equivalent) – with a minor in Finance, Mathematics or Engineering.

• Good to have: Product owner/Product Manager/ Business Analyst Certifications from recognized institutes/ courses.

How we'll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career

• Coaching and support from experts in your team

• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression

• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us and our teams

Please visit our company website for further information:

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.

Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.