Product Development Manager

Job Description

Who we are

We are a Nordic team of 7 persons who belong to Financial Management. We have team members in Lysaker, Stavanger, Copenhagen, and Stockholm. The Deposits team is responsible for managing an +85 BN NOK portfolio, which provides the Bank with its largest source of funding. Deposits funding is expected to grow in significance as the Bank’s dominant source of funding. We currently have Deposits in Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

The Deposits function is responsible for all aspects of the Deposits business. These areas encompass a wide range of deliveries, including product development, volume growth and cost management, customer experience, partnering on Marketing/CRM campaigns and ensuring compliance with new regulations.

Success for us, is to deliver great customer experience and attractive funding for the bank. The Customer experience should be frictionless, seamless and reliable 24/7.

About the role:

The role of Product Development Manager plays a central role on the team, with the responsibility to drive new initiatives that will create long-term value and growth for Deposits. These initiatives include both new products and services, as well as finding opportunities to optimize our existing platform. As the Bank operates in 3 different Deposits markets, ensuring simplification and harmonization of our products and services across countries is key to achieving efficiency and providing the best offerings to our customers.

The role will require partnering with internal teams, external partners and providers, as well as within the Deposits team itself. The Product Development Manager is the owner of the roadmap planning and the primary driver for ensuring Deposits initiatives are prioritized.

The role is Nordic and product development will take place in all countries where Deposits in the Nordics operates. Some travelling is expected.

Leadership & Advocacy

• Ensure strong and timely communication with internal and external partners and stakeholders
• Lead the Product Development process from implementation to full launch, ensuring stakeholders are on board and all relevant process steps are completed

Product & process Ownership

• Ensure products and services are implemented in a way that make them competitive, profitable and compliant
• Ensure simplification and alignment of products, processes and systems
• Ensure exceptional user experiences and fully automated solutions
• Lead roadmaps planning and prioritize backlogs and sprints

Product Development

• Deliver business value through the implementation of improved or new features / services / products in close collaboration with Product Managers and cross functional team
• Coordination of development projects, including internal approval processes
• Lead the product development through all relevant internal and external approval processes including prioritization
• Develop material required for internal approvals, including a business plan detailing costing/forecasts/profitability
• Lead, communicate and coordinate between functions, markets and partners to ensure efficiency and scalability
• Writing requirements, epics and user stories to prepare backlog
• Develop prototypes and conduct user testing and experiments to collect market / customer insight and ensure excellent user experience
• Support with test scenarios, test data and testing of changes or new product/service introductions
• Ensure decisions are made with insight (data + qualitative) and in-line with the banks risk appetite and profitability requirements
• Ensure proper handover to business and IT functions where relevant
• Act as agile “product owner” for one or several agile development teams working within your product area