Product Design Manager - Digital Financial Services

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Provide direction and guidance to product design teams to meet timely deliveries.
• Manage product design and development activities.
• Provide design solutions to meet cost-effectiveness and on-time deliveries.
• Validate product designs, identify constraints and provide corrective actions.
• Evaluate the design of new and existing products by conducting thorough analysis and assessment of product specifications.
• Support and align efforts to meet customer and business needs.
• Understand and negotiate the needs and expectations of multiple stakeholders.
• Effectively communicate insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management.
• Contribute to product direction conversations, with emphasis on leading the experience vision for the product areas.
• Meet regularly with key business partners to review current challenges, uncover root causes, recommend course correction, and implement strategies to support implementation effectiveness based on feedback.

The successful candidate should have the following:

• A Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology or Engineering related field experience.
• Professional qualification in business analysis certification will be an added advantage
• At least five years experience in the financial services sector, including experience in the following areas: 
  • Computer systems and functions knowledge
  • Business analysis
  • Stakeholder management
  • Project Management 
  •  Technology and System architecture related profession
  • Experience with relational various technologies and operating platforms.
  • Conversant with emerging technologies and new digital business models.
  • Basic understanding of system architecture, networking, data transmission through networks and data security.

The preferred candidate will possess the below attributes:  

• Passionate about and solid experience in the development & integration of digital technology platforms
• Commercially minded and experienced in interpreting business requirements into meaningful technical functionalities.
• Proven ability to collaborate with other team members across boundaries and contribute productively to the team’s work and output, demonstrating respect for different points of view. 
• Skilled in reporting, and presentation to C-suite level stakeholders
• Self-motivated and results-focused