Proxy Product Owner - Beyond Banking Injaz-RBG-Ecosystems And Platform Banking Retail Banking Group
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About the Role
Mashreq seeks a Proxy Product Owner for Beyond Banking to design, launch, and scale non-banking propositions within its digital ecosystem. The role involves ecosystem development, partner integration, backlog management, and agile delivery in a banking environment.
Key Skills for This Role
Responsibilities
- Evaluate strategic partners across travel, lifestyle, and emerging ecosystem categories
- Ensure seamless integration of partner solutions into existing digital channels
- Act as a bridge between business, partners, and technology teams
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define and document product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
- Lead sprint planning, refinement, and delivery with cross functional teams
- Support the Product Owner in maintaining and prioritizing the product backlog
- Participate in and facilitate agile ceremonies
- Collaborate with quality assurance team to define test scenarios and validate functionality
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 8 years of digital banking, fintech or technology experience
- Minimum of 5 years of experience gathering requirements and translating into user stories
- Experience in partnership led models, marketplaces, or ecosystem platforms preferred
- Strong product management & agile delivery experience
- Experience working with APIs, SDKs, integrations, and platform architectures
- Experience in vendor/partner management
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
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Job Description
- The Proxy Product Owner – Beyond Banking has end to end responsibility for designing, launching, and scaling non banking propositions integrated within Mashreq’s digital ecosystem.
- The role focuses on building and managing a portfolio of third party partner led offerings (e.g. travel, lifestyle, telco, e commerce), ensuring a seamless and compliant customer experience.
- Working within Mashreq’s Digital Studio, the role combines ecosystem development and partner integration.
Ecosystem & Marketplace Development
- Evaluate strategic partners across travel, lifestyle, and emerging ecosystem categories based on integration capabilities.
- Ensure seamless integration of partner solutions into existing digital channels.
Requirements Gathering and Documentation
- Acts as a bridge between business, partners, and technology teams.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, customers, and the Product Owner to understand, define and document product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Conduct research and analysis to identify customer needs, market trends, and competitive landscape.
- Assist in refining and clarifying requirements.
Squad Management
- Lead sprint planning, refinement, and delivery with cross functional teams.
- Deals with the most urgent incidents and improvement needs.
- Proposes and implements structural improvements to work processes.
- Uses technical expertise to facilitate and contribute to all sprint events.
- Weighs up development of new products and services against procurement of possible sub products.
Backlog Management and Prioritization
- Support the Product Owner in maintaining and prioritizing the product backlog based on business value, customer feedback, and market demands.
- Assist in backlog grooming activities, including story estimation, breaking down epics into smaller user stories.
- Collaborate with the development team to ensure a shared understanding of user stories and their priorities.
Agile Ceremonies and Collaboration
- Act as a liaison between the Product Owner and the development team.
- Participate in and facilitate agile ceremonies, such as sprint planning, daily stand ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Assist in resolving conflicts, removing impediments, and ensuring the development team has the necessary information.
Product Release and Stakeholder Management
- Collaborate with the Product Owner and stakeholders to plan and coordinate product releases.
- Assist in managing stakeholder expectations and providing timely updates on product progress, risks, and dependencies.
- Proposes and implements structural improvements to product release processes.
Quality Assurance and User Acceptance Testing
- Collaborate with the quality assurance team to define test scenarios, validate functionality, and ensure product quality.
- Participate in user acceptance testing (UAT) activities, working closely with stakeholders to gather feedback.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
- Minimum of 5 8 years of digital banking, fintech or technology experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience gathering requirements and translating into user requirements, data engineering, data science, or software engineering experience.
Core Skills
- Experience in partnership led models, marketplaces, or ecosystem platforms preferred.
- Strong product management & agile delivery experience.
- Experience working with APIs, SDKs, integrations, and platform architectures.
- Experience in vendor/partner management.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
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