Product Lead - Digital business banking

ING

  • Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
  • Vast
  • Voltijds
  • 15 dagen geleden
We have bold ambitions to improve the digital experience for our customers while empowering people’s financial health. At the same time, we want to make a positive contribution to the society and the world we live in. To deliver on these ambitious promises, we need to have a strong strategic and commercially focused organisation around our products, where our squads working on those products are enabled by clear prioritisation, accountability, and capabilities. Right there, the Product Lead comes in.To put it in short, the Product Lead is a position where all elements of a product come together, the what and the how, with an end-to-end responsibility. You work not only on delivery and on how we run a product, but also on creating a vision on how we create it, how we manage the business value and how we deliver a differentiating customer experience. Therefore, we need someone who can contribute to a continuous, emerging, all-round product vision that is covering all elements for the product life cycle, with the ultimate goal to increase customer impact.You accomplish this by steering squads who work on the product by providing a strategic direction, by coaching them on the job, defining the product roadmap and by managing stakeholders around the product. The people who work in the squads report hierarchically to you, which means it is your job to empower them to thrive and perform at their best. You set direction, you help them to develop their craftsmanship and you have continuous conversations about their career development.As a Product Lead you report hierarchically to a Product Area Lead, where multiple products come together.Roles and responsibilities:As a Product Lead, you:
  • Own a product (end-to-end), which means you are accountable for the product vision, including functionality, technology, user experience design, monetising the functionality (or interaction pattern with internal consumers), how to acquire users and customers and offline experiences that are needed to deliver on the product’s value.
  • Take collective ownership of the product, including engineering and architecture aspects.
  • Perform analyses to stay on top of market trends, to ensure product’s competitive position.
  • Define the roadmap of the product to maximize business value through ordering and prioritisation of the product backlog, under consideration of relevant stakeholder needs.
  • Prioritise the product backlog (both on functional as non-functional requirements as risks, reliability, IT Run, LCM).
  • Focus on delivery through collaboration, ability to bring people together to work towards the same purpose.
  • Are able to take responsibility, steer strategy and realisations based on facts and data; managerial courage to question and make decisions. Are a mandated IT asset owner, risk manager, and in case of a non-generic IT asset, data owner for the product and accepts test results and approves (IT) changes on the product.
  • Ensures adherence to Process Control Standards
  • Build the craftsmanship of the employees in the team in line with the strategy of the Tribe and Area.
  • Ensure compliance with relevant regulation and internal/external requirements.
  • Are the hierarchical manager of a team of Customer Journey Experts, working in multiple squads organized around your product.
We look for:A leader who takes things on and makes things happen; who is passionate about helping others to be successful; and has a knack for always being a step ahead. You are a naturally collaborative person who listens and invests in others to achieve common goals. You love to challenge the status quo and are eager to propose creative solutions to problems.As a Product Lead, you will also need to be able to:
  • Build an effective team, that has diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.
  • People management: being responsible for the inflow, progression, and outflow of employees of ‘your’ teams and playing an active role in the well-being and engagement of employees and the development of their craftsmanship.
  • Communicate effectively, in which you can adapt your style and the content of your communication to the needs of others you work with. You always pay attention to the input and opinions of others.
  • Develop talent, by helping people in your team to achieve their career goals by emphasizing the importance of learning, support people in developing new skills and offer opportunities to develop people’s careers.
  • Have a customer focus, where you build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions.
  • Drive engagement, you create an environment in which people are motivated to perform at their best to help ING to achieve its goals.
  • Be organisational savvy, you manoeuvre easily through complex policies, processes, and people-related organisational dynamics across ING.
  • Look ahead, you show a strategic mindset, and you find future opportunities which you can translate into concrete strategies.
  • Be tech savvy, where you anticipate and leverage innovations in digital and technical applications that make ING commercially stronger and more effective.
How to succeedWe hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself. Ideally you have:
  • Experience in defining strategies and policies in order to set and deliver objectives within medium to long time frames.
  • A proven track record in processes of digitalization, backlog management and resource planning
  • Experience in product/service management and development.
  • Sound experience in building and executing strategic roadmaps.
  • Experience in explaining complex issues in an easy-to-understand way to get people on board, including by using your strong analytical skills.
  • An excellent level of English.
  • You have a Master’s Degree.
Rewards and benefitsWe want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions atThe benefits of working with us at ING include:
  • A salary tailored to your qualities and experience
  • 24-27 vacation days depending on contract
  • Pension scheme
  • 13th month salary
  • Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary
  • 8% Holiday payment
  • Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation
  • Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities
  • An informal working environment with innovative colleagues
About usWith 60,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Join us. Apply today.

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