Associate Product Manager (Contract)
The Role & Responsibilities:
We are looking for a candidate who will support the strategic direction of product (Versa App) positioning and development and work closely with the Marketing, Engineering and other stakeholder(s).
Responsibilities:
- Act as the primary point of contact for businesses to request or share ideas for product capabilities & feature
- Engage business stakeholders to collaborate and co-create product capabilities & features
- Evaluate business value of new capabilities in collaboration with business & strategy team to recommend prioritization
- Define and document comprehensive business requirements using best practices e.g., UML
- Conduct end-to-end analysis of user journey, back-end processes, and operational requirements for product capabilities to identify and document improvement/enhancements
- Lead the implementation and customer launch of product roadmap, working closely with Engineering team
- Define clear metrics of success measurement for all new product capabilities for the purpose of tracking performance
- Conduct periodic analysis of capabilities & feature success post-launch to recommend improvements and increase success
- Conduct continuous market research to understand the competitor landscape, market needs, and customer sentiment
- Continuously refine product offering & capabilities roadmap based on research findings to ensure effort invested in product development yields highest adoption and profitability
- Lead operational aspects of product, including L3 support, executing processes, reporting, configuring product launches, and supporting any ad hoc requests
- Define test scenarios, test cases, and conduct comprehensive testing of new capabilities & features to be rolled out
- Collaborate closely with Compliance & Legal to ensure all product capabilities & features are 100% in compliance with regulatory & legal requirements
- Own and drive release plan end-to-end from initiation, tracking all the way to customer launch
Job Requirements
- Academic qualification in the field of business analysis, information technology, computer science, data & analytics, or related fields
- Experienced in working in high paced, dynamic environment and able to adapt swiftly to shifts in priorities and directions
- Experienced in user journey design & functional design of mobile application and back office tools
- Experienced in working closely with Engineering team in delivering product requirements
- Experienced in translating raw business requirements into modular & configurable functional design
- Experienced in slicing business requirements into epics, user stories, and conducting discovery with Engineering team to size the effort, line up and prioritize development
- Strong communication & articulation skills to be able to effectively communicate product capabilities & features without gap to Engineering team
- Experienced in Agile/Scaled Agile Framework methodology & tools
- Strong skills in data query & analysis
- Experienced in Design Thinking methodology and empathic design philosophy
- Experience in Google BigQuery is advantageous
- Experience & knowledge in retail financial services, especially digital retail wealth industry, are advantageous
Ideal candidates would be those who have worked as a product manager or product owner in leading digital wealth mobile apps, products, and services with experience in owning end-to-end requirements definition, all the way to product design, build, test, and market launch.
Job Description PDF: Versa JD – Associate Product Manager
About Versa
Established in 2020, Versa is a digital wealth management app that simplifies saving and investing by creating good money habits. Versa is regulated by Securities Commission (SC) Malaysia and is focused on growing wealth by providing an experience that makes saving & investing seamless, fun and personal.