Product Owner at First Bank of Nigeria Limited

First Bank of Nigeria Limited (FirstBank) is Nigeria's largest financial services institution by total assets and gross earnings. With more than 10 million customer accounts, FirstBank has over 750 branches providing a comprehensive range of retail and corporate financial services. The Bank has international presence through its subsidiaries, FBN Bank (UK) Limited in London and Paris, FBNBank DRC, FBNBank Ghana, FBNBank Gambia, FBNBank Guinea, FBNBank Sierra-Leone and FBNBank Senegal, as well as its Representative Offices in Johannesburg, Beijing and Abu Dhabi.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Product Owner

Job Identification: 1304
Location: Lagos
Job Schedule: Full time

Job Objective

• Represent the customer to the development team
• Drive the product management process from conceptualization to delivery
• Translate product requirements to user stories
• Manage and prioritize the product backlog 

Duties & Responsibilities 

• Work in an agile environment where you will collaborate with a squad of highly skilled tech team to ideate, prototype, iterate and develop our products
• Translate ideas into strategy and features٫ and drive product development from start to finish
• Maintain the product backlog, create feature descriptions to provide guidance to Engineering team, alongside facilitating refinement and planning sessions
• Provide user stories to cross functional teams and define the business-driven acceptance criteria
• Decompose, refine, and document high-level requirements into detail and abstract up from low-level requirements to a general understanding. Ensure customer needs are distinguished from the underlying true business needs
• Develop user flow diagrams, and low-fidelity prototypes as part of product documentation
• Identify areas for improving or updating our products based on thorough research and deep analysis
• Define acceptance criteria and critical metrics that define the success of a technology solution, and continue to monitor throughout the production lifecycle
• Facilitate Product Backlog Refinement sessions
• Scope and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact
• Build and implement product strategies consistent with company vision.
• Retrieve and analyze feedback from customers٫ stakeholders and other teams to shape requirements٫ features and end products.
• Collaborate with stakeholders/senior management to create product plans and roadmaps.
• Supervise and support product managers and coordinate cross-functional teams.
• Prepare and review product requirements documents (PRD).
• Contribute to crafting and continuously fine-tuning our product management process

Job Requirements
Education:

• Minimum Education: First Degree in an IT related or other non-IT related discipline Experience

Experience:

• Minimum experience – 2 years relevant experience in electronic banking product development and support

Application Closing Date
7th March, 2025; 11:45 PM.