Senior Product Owner (Technical)

Makati City

Mid Shift

The Opportunity

Manulife is seeking for an individual who loves to motivate teams to achieve a product vision, comfortable with business object modeling best practices and knowledgeable about cloud computing, and translate requirements from multiple sources into one central prioritized backlog.

What motivates you?

• You obsess about customers, listen, engage and act for their benefit 
• You think big, with curiosity to discover ways to use your agile mindset and enable business outcomes 
• You thrive in teams, and enjoy getting things done together
• You take ownership and build solutions, focusing on what matters 
• You do what is right, work with integrity and speak up
• You share your humanity, helping us build a diverse and inclusive work environment for everyone 

We are looking for someone with: 

• BA or BSc in a technical discipline (computer science, engineering, IT)
• Experience in data architecture, data modelling, and service-based architecture
• Firm knowledge of JIRA and Confluence
• Experience working in a related field.
• An entrepreneurial spirit and comfort working within in rapidly changing environment
• Analytical, ability to think strategically and creatively. Able to design roadmaps
• Create well designed and thought out Jira Stories, Epics and Tasks that define scope and definition of done
• Experimenting with emerging technologies and understanding how they will impact what comes next
• A capacity for constant learning from both success and failure, remaining open to change and continuous improvement
• Good organizational and problem-solving abilities that enable you to manage through creative abrasion
• Good verbal and written communication with the ability to effectively articulate and communicate technical vision, possibilities, and outcomes
• Partners well with other squads, but tactfully protects their squad from distractions

On the job you will:

• Owns the product backlog and feature prioritization process
• Works with software development teams to define hypotheses, run experiments (surveys, concept testing, analytics tools, A/B testing), and analyze data to make decisions on features that influence the direction of the product (owner of product backlog)
• Leads agile teams to ensure that value is delivered to users through appropriate epics
• Drives the product strategy, planning, and delivery of key capabilities for the product (defines product goals)
• Acts as the voice of the customer in the definition of product; incorporates feedback from customer interviews and user research
• Leads the ideation, design, and planning of the product; monitor and report on product KPIs
• Proactively removes obstacles impacting success of sprints; manages key dependencies
• Works with strategic design to gain an understanding of use personas, pain points and journeys
• Provides insights into product, technology and market trends
• Defines roadmaps and detailed user stories, and partner with engineering masters to enable delivery of prioritized features
• Collaborates with engineers & leadership to uncover pain points and opportunities to accelerate the delivery of new value through software
• Manages communication and delivery between design & engineering teams
• Specifies and effectively communicates requirements for current and future products

Our commitment to you

• Our mission; to be a part of making Decisions Easier and Lives Better
• A leadership team dedicated to your growth and success 
• A bold ambition and set of goals to be a leader in driving transformation in our industry 
• Our best. Every day. 

Learn more about opportunities with us at jobs.manulife.com