Requisition Number :54272

Job Location :Chennai, IND

Global Grade :Band 5

Work Type :Office Working

Employment Type :Permanent

Posting Start Date :01/06/2026

Posting End Date :13/06/2026 Job Summary

The Product Owner (PO) is a person, who is responsible for owning the end-to-end customer journeys and product vision & lifecycle. The PO has a delegated authority and empowerment to prioritize the product backlog to maximize the value of our products or services for both our customers and our business. The core ethos is to make informed decisions to ensure each investment decision results in the maximum outcome (as measured by OKRs) balancing both short-medium

- and long-term horizons.

Key Responsibilities

- Collaborate with stakeholders to define and maintain a clear Documentation & Contract Management product vision and roadmap that aligns with the Hive’s and Bank’s objectives.
- Create, own and prioritize the squad’s backlog, ensuring user stories are well-defined including Solution Intent documents, refined and aligned to product roadmap, achieving Hive/Domain’s strategic outcome and scorecard priorities.
- Align business stakeholders and technology partners to ensure a clear common objective.
- Ensure both Hive and Squad understand the why, the purpose and the mission.
- Lead the squads to deliver relevant and impactful features balancing quality and speed.
- Be an active participant in Agile ceremonies and foster a culture of continuous improvement together.
- Own the overall product quality and outcomes by adoption key agile processes (e.g. DOR & DOD)
- Have awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.
- Proactively and courageously identify, analyse,



and steer solutions on organizational impediments and constraints to productivity, quality, early risk mitigation, and continuous delivery of value.
- Support build and test approach and activities
- Assist in implementation / rollout including UAT, user trainings, UVT and post go-live support.
- Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.

Key Stakeholders

- Business Stakeholders (Global Banking-Coverage, Markets and TB)
- Country and Regional Client Management Heads
- Global Process Owners, Policy and RFOs
- Squad & Hive members
- Hive Leads
- Domain Tech & Engineering Leads
- Technology Chapter Leads
- Solution Architects
- PO Chapter members & Leads
- Change Managers

Product Leadership, Engagement & Strategy

- Build and maintain close rapport with key stakeholders ie Hive Lead, Domain Tech Lead, Engineering Lead, Solution Architects, UI/UX Designers, Business stakeholders to influence outcomes.
- Collaborate with Hive Lead and Solution Architect, to craft a transparent and easy-to-understand product vision that aligns with Hive’s strategic objectives.
- Oversee the entire product journey and vision, guiding it from inception and validation through development, delivery, operations and continuous iterations.
- Work closely with stakeholders to ensure that backlog are aligned to business’s values and OKR.




- Manage and facilitate prioritization discussion with relevant stakeholders on Sprint backlog and Quarterly Backlog
- Cultivate a culture based on trust, psychological safety & collaborations.
- Take ownership of the Hive purpose by ensuring each member fully understands and embraces the Hive’s vision & mission.
- Collaborate with the Hive Lead to craft and continually update the Hive’s vision & mission, ensuring they resonate with Hive’s strategic objectives and inspire the Hive.
- Instil a high-performance culture and true “self-organizing” team by empowering the Squad, celebrate achievements, learning from review/feedback and conducting retrospective for continuous improvement.
- Coach & mentor fellow PO to continuously uplift PO’s capability and elevating their performance to drive team success.
- Actively engage in quarterly Hive’s BRP sessions and offer strategic direction in collaboration with Hive Lead.
- Accountable for ensuring compliance and risk adherence of products and service, engage with stakeholders to ensure necessary controls are adhered to and approvals are obtained.

Product Discovery and Experimentation

- Champion and integrate a culture of evidence driven decision making.
- Optimize business value of the product or serve by ensuring timely delivery of the right solutions based on customer validated and business viable features and initiatives.
- Utilize data analytics / feedback to generate idea or identify opportunity of improvement and validate these ideas or opportunities using discovery canvas toolkit or lo-fi prototype.
- Instil MVP approach or fail-fast concept which allows the Squad to achieve result/output with mínimal investment or effort.
- Lead technical discovery studies to maximize existing investments & where necessary, develop co

📌 Vp, Product Owner (Chennai)
🏢 Standard Chartered
📍 Chennai