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Product Owner Digital Assets

Allmendstrasse 140, 8041 Zürich, Switzerland | Full-time

A bit about the role

Our team is responsible for the shaping and developing Avaloq's award-winning digital assets offering bridging traditional finance and decentralized finance. Our offering targets not only existing Avaloq banks but aims at enabling the digital assets ambitions of all types of traditional financial institutions, thanks to a Core Banking System agnostic product architecture.

You will be surrounded by smart, highly capable people who are passionate to build the next generation of innovative applications to address the upcoming challenges of the crypto and blockchain industry.

We strongly believe in design thinking and "user-centered" design, working very closely with UX designers and validating our ideas.

We are looking for passionate Agile Product Owner to join our team and bring these innovative designs live.

Your key tasks

  • Collaborate closely with the product manager to ensure alignment of the development team's output with the strategic product roadmap
  • Make tactical decisions to maximize business value, in harmony with the product's strategic direction
  • Create, manage and prioritize the product backlog, balancing strategic directives and immediate business requirements.
  • Lead Agile ceremonies, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
  • Work with the business analyst to transform high-level requirements into detailed user stories and acceptance criteria
  • Track and optimize development team KPIs; propose and implement improvement measures
  • Provide input for planning and offering documents, such as effort estimates and forecasting, in collaboration with the domain head
  • Participate in defining the product roadmap, alongside the product manager and architect
  • Foster team development for the implementation of new features, overseeing the process from requirement gathering to user acceptance testing
  • Define and manage the product release plan, overseeing the product versioning process
  • Maintain exemplary product documentation, including use cases, feature descriptions, acceptance criteria, and technical specifics
  • Ensure high-quality assurance through automated and manual testing
  • Facilitate in-depth workshops with clients and partners, and conduct product demonstrations for various stakeholders, aiding in sales efforts

A bit about you

  • High level knowledge of following components:
    • Backend development technologies
    • Frontend development technologies
    • UX design
  • Blockchain technologies
  • Understanding of banking value chain (especially, trading, settlement, and custody)
  • Good knowledge of Jira and Confluence

It would be a real bonus if you have

  • Avaloq Core Banking Platform
  • Cloud and infrastructure knowledge (incl. public cloud, kubernetes, security methods, etc.)
  • Workflow tools Flowable
  • UX design tool Figma

Please submit with your applications a short, meaningful motivation letter.

Additional information

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices.

In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self.

We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way.

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.

Benefits

Annual bonus

At Avaloq we work hard to remain an industry leading provider and we love to reward our colleagues with a share of that success with an annual bonus, you will even remain eligible for annual bonus while you do the hardest job of your life – taking care of your children during parental leave.

Flexible working

We understand that fitting your life around your job can be challenging which is why in most roles we offer flexible working to allow you to thrive both in and out of work.

Instant recognition

We love to see people thriving in their roles and we have an instant recognition scheme at Avaloq to help managers reward the great work our colleagues deliver with a gift to say thanks.

Access to Udemy for professional and personal learning

We think it is important to learn and grow professionally, but if you are someone who likes to learn outside of work we give you access to online learning for both professional and personal learning, with over 210,000 courses to choose from.

A bit about us

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 10 countries, and more than 160 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.

We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

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