Product Owner - Data

Company Description

Take a seat on the Xplor rocket ship and join us as a the Product Owner - Data.

We’re a global team of builders, listeners and problem-solvers who are relentlessly focused on making life simple, so our customers can get back to growing their business and doing what they love.

Job Description

Product Owner – Data

About Us 

The Xplor Pay Data team is at the forefront of the Payments industry, leveraging data-driven insights to enhance our business operations and deliver exceptional value to our customers. Our team is dedicated to building robust data solutions that empower our internal teams and customers with accurate, timely, and actionable insights. We are currently seeking a Product Owner to join our dynamic team and play a pivotal role in the development and deployment of our Data solutions across multiple domains and regions. While Xplor promotes good work life balance, we are a Global team and you will be required to work with team members and stakeholders around the globe, so flexibility is important in this role.

About the role 

As the Product Owner - Data, you will work closely with Data Engineers, Product Managers, and other stakeholders to define and deliver datawarehousing and reporting solutions. Reporting to the Group Product Manager of Data, your primary responsibility will be to gather and define requirements, understand the complexity required from each domain to ensure the data solutions are built to support our needs of today and our future. You are to oversee its implementation across various payment related domains and support its release to core regions. As a key member of the team, you will act as a bridge between the technical team and the business, ensuring alignment and delivering successful outcomes. 

Responsibilities 

• Actively works with the wider product team to understand how their domain contributes to customer and commercial outcomes within the data domain. 

• Assist with migration initiatives by ensuring the successful tracking and migration of customers from legacy platforms to our global payments' platform. 

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand their data needs and translate them into detailed product requirements. 

• Define and document data warehouse and reporting requirements, including data models, data sources, and integration points. 

• Work with Data Engineers to design and build data solutions. 

• Prioritize and manage the product backlog, ensuring that features are delivered on time and meet business requirements. 

• Develop and maintain a product roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals and timelines. 

• You actively manage scrum planning activities and agile ceremonies, encouraging self-organisation and management. 

• Act as the primary point of contact between the business and the Data Engineering team for the assigned domains and areas. 

• Communicate progress, gather feedback, and manage expectations with stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle. 

• Facilitate regular meetings and update sessions with stakeholders to ensure ongoing alignment and issue resolution. 

• Work with QA teams to validate data accuracy, integrity, and performance. 

• Monitor and support the ongoing maintenance and enhancement of data solutions post-deployment. 

• Facilitates support and maintenance of their domain throughout the life of their product, escalating to other product teams and stakeholders when necessary. 

• Be a team player by collaborating with other product owners within the data product practice. 

• Other Product ownership responsibilities within the Data domain as required. 

• Initial assignment will be to the ANZ region, so will have an early start (6am IST)

• Flexible to attend meetings outside working hours considering Xplor is a global company with global teams.

Qualifications

What would make me a good candidate?

• 5+ years of experience in product or business analysis roles at high-growth organizations, ideally with experience in the payments and/or data related roles
• Demonstrated success supporting product and/or development strategies, defining, documenting, developing, and launching platform capabilities and products.
• Experience with Power BI preferred, however experience with other reporting tools such as Tableau or Cognos will be considered
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail. Able to communicate findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to collect, analyze, and interpret data to make and explain decisions while managing multiple initiatives at different stages, prioritizing effectively, and managing time wisely to achieve objectives.
• Outstanding communication skills, with ability to manage internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience driving priorities and collaboration cross-functionally.

Additional Information

At Xplor, we believe that the best innovation and ideas happen at the intersection of differences - people of different cultures, generations, disciplines, and lived experiences. So even if you think you don’t quite tick all the boxes, we still encourage you to apply.

We kindly ask you to apply through our careers portal or external job boards (LinkedIn, Naukri, Indeed, etc) only. Please don't send your application via email. They will not be forwarded. 

More about us 

We're the first global platform combining SaaS with embedded payments, and tools to help businesses grow and succeed. We offer software solutions in fast-growing ‘everyday life’ verticals: Education, Fitness & Wellbeing, Field Services and Personal Services – and a global, cloud-based payments processing platform. Xplor Technologies serves over 106,000 customers that processed over $37 billion in payments, operating across 20 markets in 2023.

Good to know

To be considered for employment, you must be legally authorised to work in the location (country) you're applying for. Xplor does not sponsor visas, either at the time of hire or at any later time. 

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