Product Owner / Delivery Manager, Budapest

Lab49 seeks a hybrid Product Owner & Delivery Manager to spearhead transformative projects across the Financial Services sector for our elite clients. In this pivotal role, you'll drive innovation, deliver high-impact solutions in a cross-functional agile environment, and play a key role in expanding our client relationships and identifying new business opportunities. Your ability to balance product excellence with strategic business growth will be crucial to our continued success. 

Responsibilities:

• Building out a set of user journeys and designs for a new commercial banking portal. 
• Working closely with Design and with another Lab49 team responsible for developing a technology and strategy and architecture for the new portal 
• The portal will enable commercial banking customer to engage digitally end to end. 
• From onboarding and KYC through to cash and liquidity management to product enablement 
• Consultant will be able to provide the Design team with guidance around best practices and constraints from a business perspective. 
• Consultant will be required to work alongside the UX lead to define a set of best practice customer journeys. 
• Define customer requirements whilst understanding commercial and regulatory constraints. 
• Provide input into defining innovative new digital features with the design team. 
• Understanding the technology strategy and enable the design team to reflect this accurately. 
• Collaboratingwith the technology strategy team to further elaborate or influence the technology strategy from a customer experience perspective. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead lean product discoveries and development for complex financial products  
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and execute product roadmaps  
• Engage withstakeholders, presenting insights, strategies, and progress updates  
• Bridge the business and end-user needs with development capabilities, 
• Transform requirements into well-defined user stories aligned with the development team 
• Collaborate with product UX/UI design to prioritize and detail product definition needs and provide feedback 
• Technical fluency to ensure feasibility  
• Identify and manage technical dependencies between development teams 
• Manage the overall delivery of t product, facilitate agile ceremonies, track progress, manage delivery timelines and expectations, and support the team in resolving impediments 
• Own the scrum delivery process, continuously improve and adapt 
• Define, schedule and coordinate software releases with key stakeholders 
• Track budget, costs, allocations to different workstreams and update forecasts  
• Cultivate strong client relationships to ensure project success and identify new opportunities  
• Translate intricate financial concepts into tangible artifacts and actionable product strategies

Qualifications:

• Extensive experience in the financial sector and product management  
• Deep understanding of financial services landscape and trends  
• Demonstrated experience in product development  
• Proven ability to manage full product lifecycles from discovery to delivery  
• Strong communication skills, adept at stakeholder management  
• Analytical mindset with a focus on user-centric approaches  
• Good understanding of technical aspects, experience with frontend related development, and data heavy platforms 

Core Product and Delivery Skills:

• Strong product mindset including hypothesis driven development and data-driven results  
• User-centered thinking and ability to collaborate with UX teams  
• Strategic road mapping and prioritization  
• Agile methodologies and practices  
• Day-to-day backlog management  
• Data-driven decision making  
• Stakeholder management and communication  
• Delivery and Project management 

Leadership and Relationship Building:

• Ability to mobilize cross-functional teams towards achieving key business outcomes  
• Driving and demonstrating business value  
• Expertise in navigating complex client ecosystems and building long-term partnerships  
• Skill in identifying and capitalizing on new business opportunities within existing client relationships  
• Capacity to influence and gain buy-in from both internal stakeholders and client executives 

Lab49/ION is committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive environment for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We respect the varied identities, abilities, cultures, and traditions of the individuals who comprise our organization and recognize the value that different backgrounds and points of