Head of Product

**The Company**

**The Opportunity**

Banjo is a small but fast-growing business and as a result are looking to for a Head of Product to join their team. In this newly developed role, you will be instrumental in helping to define the newly formed Product Team as well as shaping the direction of the business and driving the strategy, execution, and delivery of the product to deliver the best outcome for our clients and partners. As with any small business there will be a large amount of hands on activity required.

You will also be responsible for leading and managing the operations of the product organisation, setting the product direction, and driving major strategic and product initiatives. You will work with key resources across the business and have strategic impact and influence the direction of our solutions and the company. You will have direct responsibility for existing products, enhancing, and improving, as well as introducing new product initiatives. You will do this with our team of talented, passionate specialists & leaders across functions of, product, credit, designers, IT and data science.

Moving to a more product driven business is a key initiative at Banjo, driven from the Board & CEO down. As a result, you will be responsible for working with the Executive team to execute on the strategy for making Banjo help Australian SME’s write the next chapter of their growth.

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**What will you be doing?**
- Helping set the product strategy and direction alongside the Strategic Head of Marketing, Insights & Growth and other Executive and Team leaders;
- Owning the product strategy and lifecycle of the Banjo products, including how we continue to solve for customer needs and meet our growth ambitions;
- Leading and helping to define Banjo’s Product team structure to define and drive product capabilities, from inception to launch and ongoing enhancements;
- Hiring, developing and growing the product team to build the right product features;
- Creating a culture of strong ownership, resulting in highly reliable products and services at scale;
- Fostering a healthy and collaborative culture that embodies Banjo’s values - Trust, Respect, Accountability and Celebration

**About you - What will you bring to Banjo?**
- Extensive experience - preferably in Fintech - within Product Management and a proven track record of being able to deliver highly ambitious products;
- An understanding and curiosity for how the product is put together as well as a passion for building the product;
- Demonstrated ability to lead people and build teams;
- Empathy for clients and strategic partners with an ability to quickly identify the problems worth solving, explaining your rationale with data;
- An understanding of how best to define and track metrics, and a high level of comfort using data to make technical product decisions;
- Strong collaboration skills, ability to wield influence and communicate effectively across functions and teams to bring focus to complex and dynamic situations;
- You’re always learning. Whether it’s interviewing clients, designing UIs, writing code or modelling growth, you’re not afraid to roll up your sleeves and learn the skills you don’t have today to unblock your team

**B**anjo benefits and culture - What’s in it for you**
- Flexible working hours to enable you to have a good work life balance;
- Highly supportive and friendly environment that encourages you to do your best;
- Collaborative, transparent and driven team, within a value led culture;
- Opportunity to be part of a growing business and really define your role to be an instrumental part of the business future;
- Ongoing training and development - with the opportunity to attend company events in Melbourne.
- We are moving to an exciting, amazing new office

**How to Apply