Product Owner

About Us:

Soar is a global fintech startup that specializes in financing and investment. Currently headquartered in Saudi Arabia, Soar is growing throughout the region with a mission to help people achieve their financial goals with innovative financial and property investment solutions and tools through its multi-purpose platform, designed to offer a simple and seamless user experience.

Role Purpose:

SOAR is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Product Owner who excels at asking the right questions to uncover and document business requirements effectively. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in bridging the gap between business needs and technical solutions by gathering, analyzing, and clearly defining product requirements. Your ability to engage stakeholders, ask insightful questions, and translate business challenges into actionable requirements will be critical to the success of our product development. Join our team to help address our current challenges in extracting and documenting precise business requirements to deliver exceptional solutions.

Job duties and Responsibilities:

Requirements Management:

• Gather and analyze business needs through stakeholder collaboration and create detailed documentation and user stories
• Maintain product backlog aligned with business goals,and ensure requirements are understood by all teams

Stakeholder Management

• Act as primary point of contact for requirements and build strong relationships with business stakeholders
• Manage expectations around scope, timelines, and trade-offs and represent customer and business needs consistently

Team Collaboration

• Work with engineering, design, and cross-functional teams, participate in Agile ceremonies, support development teams during implementation
• Partner with QA for testable requirements

Strategic Leadership

• Align requirements with company vision and define and communicate product roadmap
• Make informed decisions on scope and priorities
• Identify requirement gaps and propose solutions

Process Improvement

• Refine requirements gathering process and collect post-delivery feedback and stay current with industry trends
• Enhance product development practices.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or in a similar role within the Fintech industry.
• Proven experience in developing and launching successful products in the Fintech domain.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban).
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with strong attention to detail.
• Proven ability to write clear, concise, and well-structured documentation (especially PRDs).
• Experience using Jira for product backlog management.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Degree in Business, Computer Science, or a related field

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working on Finance, Credit, or Loans modules within a Fintech environment.

Notes:

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Join us and get ready to Soar!