Product Owner, Unloan, X15ventures

**Let’s introduce ourselves**

Unloan is a new digital lending venture, backed by CommBank and built in x15Ventures.

We are a diverse team of product managers, designers, engineers, risk managers and lenders. And we’re working together to deliver Australia's most-loved home loan experience.

We're looking for smart people who think differently and want to make a difference.

**Our approach to home loan lending**

**The Role**

You will lead the planning and delivery of the banking services using Agile methodologies. This role will have a strong focus on building relationships within Unloan and also with the rest CommBank and is essential to the success of this role.

**Some of the responsibilities include**:

- Lead and define the vision and roadmap for the product in partnership with business stakeholders and product management to maximise delivery of business value and support benefits realisation.
- Working with the development and product teams to ensure that the product backlog is well balanced, defined and prioritsed.
- Build and manage relationships with key stakeholders including executives, business analysts and engineers within CBA.
- Communicate effectively throughout the planning, development and releases of our product features.
- Drive and caretake all facets of product feature development including ensuring all required approvals are attained in timely manner in a fast-paced, start-up environment.
- Accountable for addressing impediments, driving decisions and resolving escalations.
- Troubleshoot and resolve any day-to-day queries that may arise, that relate to platform or vendor APIs.
- Act as the voice of the business and translate this for the team.
- Drive project inception and exploration to ensure alignment of product strategy.
- Formulate hypotheses to validate customer problems and define clear learning objectives that will inform product roadmap and prioritisation decisions.
- Identify, articulate and manage risks and compliance across streams of work.
- Incorporate design thinking and analytics to inform product design.
- Lead and develop the product roadmap, and engagement with senior stakeholders/business units to manage the delivery of product roadmap.
- Lead the day-to-day to deliver change and lifecycle activities.
- Manage senior business and technical stakeholders to ensure that prioritisation is understood and agreed to.
- Manage the Squad’s performance to defined objectives including OKR tracking, etc.
- Utilise your curiosity about the latest development in the industry and experience in customer experience and conversion to influence key stakeholders to balance the priotisation of the key business needs of the Unloan business.
- Collaborate with other product managers and product owners on solutioning to ensure the right experiences for our customers and internal users, remove blockers and alert to dependencies to drive effective delivery.

**Let's talk about the skills we're after**

**Your experience & knowledge**
- You’re an expert in technology delivery and are excited to push the envelope for innovation.
- You have experience with driving change, ideally relating to coordinating the implementation of solutions to issues across broad, complex areas.
- You have experience in digital-first businesses, where automation and simple processes are core pillars in planning and delivery activity. Experience with financial or lending products is a bonus.
- You have excellent communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional teams (including Marketing, Operations, Product, Engineer, Design and Risk)
- You have experience in Agile delivery and can champion agile ways of working with the squad.
- Ability to work autonomously and manage multiple projects/streams at the same time.
- Proficient in utilizing qualitative and quantitative data to enhance product performance and quality.

**Your skills & mindset**
- You’re customer obsessed and can make hard trade-off decisions that best optimise for customer value.
- You will be comfortable with uncertainty, and taking on big challenges that push you outside of your comfort zone.
- You will be curious and open to learning new things, and taking accountability for finding solutions to challenging, ambiguous problems.
- You will be confident to contribute your views, effectively communicating with and influencing a range of stakeholders.
- You have high integrity and a strong ethical approach to achieving the right outcomes.
- You have a positive outlook and can inspire the team to achieve success.

**What's in It for you?**
- We offer flexible work options to support your well-being.
- We pay generous equal parental leave because family is hugely important.
- Generous perks - Including staff discounts on a variety of brands & financial products.
- Working side by side with leadership, making big decisions, and solving important challenges in this tech-centric venture.
- You can choose your own adventure with access