Product Owner Business Lending

**Work type**: Permanent Full time
**Region**: VIC- Melbourne CBD
- **Join a company that’s invested in you**:

- **Bring your ideas, ambitions, and passions both in and outside of work**:

- **Be part of a collaborative and engaging team environment**

**It’s more than a career at NAB. It’s about more opportunity, more moments to make a difference and more focus on you.**

Your job is just one part of your life. When you bring your ideas, energy, and hunger for growth to us, you’ll be recognised and rewarded for your contribution in return. You’ll have our support to excel for our customers, deliver positive change for our communities and grow your career.

It’s a good time to see what more you can find at NAB as a **Product Owner at NAB.**

**About the role**

As a **Product Owner in Business Lending**, you will be responsible for communicating and maintaining the vision, roadmap, goals, plans and expectations. You will be a trusted leader for your squads, supporting your colleagues to understand the squad mission and foster accountability for the work to be done, to collectively deliver on customer and colleague outcomes.

**Your key responsibilities will be**:

- Accountable for the ultimate success of your squad’s outcomes
- Represent the voice of the Customer and Colleague when developing the product roadmap. You will keep this voice front of mind to prioritise, balancing what is realistic with what will make a difference and challenge the status quo
- Managing stakeholders on behalf of the squad and provide both sides with the transparency and visibility required. This will include being responsible for escalating impediments and making decisions that maximise value on behalf of the business and to ensure the squad is focus on producing work that is valuable
- Collaborate with the other members of the squad to elaborate features and stories, defining acceptance criteria and definition of done
- Make effective day to day decisions to enable the squad to progress the work
- Work collaboratively with Release Train Engineer and the squad to deliver backlog, and attend all relevant agile ceremonies
- Engage with stakeholders outside of the squad, protecting the squad members to enable focus on their work and avoid context-switching

**What you will bring**
- Demonstrated in-depth understanding of relevant financial products from either a business perspective
- Proven ability to mobilise and support large, cross functional and self-managing teams to accomplish outcomes
- Experience working with agile ways of working and familiarity with human centred design techniques
- Ability to create and convey a vision to key stakeholders and teams, developing it into a shaped backlog of key features, user stories and goals in line with Domain cadence
- Comfortable playing a leadership role, including leading workshops through the discovery, development, and operational usage stages of development
- Ability to innovate, adapt and grasp new skills and content
- Experience in project delivery and knowledge of the software development cycle
- Exceptional communication with the ability to engage, build relationships and influence stakeholders at senior levels
- Proven analytical skills and evidence-based decision making
- Inquisitive, test & learn mindset
- Tertiary qualification(s) in a related discipline

**Inclusion and Diversity**

We know that our people make us who we are. That's why we have built a culture of equity and respect - where everyone feels valued and appreciated for being their authentic selves. In partnership with our multiple Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) we continue to foster an inclusive environment, where all NAB colleagues’ unique backgrounds and identities are understood, respected and celebrated.

**More focus on you**
We are committed to delivering a positive experience for our colleagues and a workplace you can be proud of. We support our colleagues to balance their careers and personal life through flexible working arrangements such as hybrid working and job sharing and competitive financial and lifestyle benefits. We invest in our colleagues through world class development programs (Distinctive Leadership and Career Qualified in Banking), and empower you to learn, grow and pursue exciting career opportunities. To learn more, visit the Benefits of Working at NAB page on our website.

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