Product Owner / Delivery Manager, Budapest
Budapest
Lab49 – Product and Delivery /
Full-time /
On-site
Lab49 seeks a hybrid Product Owner & Delivery Manager to spearhead transformative projects across the Financial Services sector for our elite clients. In this pivotal role, you'll drive innovation, deliver high-impact solutions in a cross-functional agile environment, and play a key role in expanding our client relationships and identifying new business opportunities. Your ability to balance product excellence with strategic business growth will be crucial to our continued success.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead lean product discoveries and development for complex financial products
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and execute product roadmaps
- Engage with stakeholders, presenting insights, strategies, and progress updates
- Bridge the business and end-user needs with development capabilities,
- Transform requirements into well-defined user stories aligned with the development team
- Collaborate with product UX/UI design to prioritize and detail product definition needs and provide feedback
- Technical fluency to ensure feasibility
- Identify and manage technical dependencies between development teams
- Manage the overall delivery of t product, facilitate agile ceremonies, track progress, manage delivery timelines and expectations, and support the team in resolving impediments
- Own the scrum delivery process, continuously improve and adapt
- Define, schedule and coordinate software releases with key stakeholders
- Track budget, costs, allocations to different workstreams and update forecasts
- Cultivate strong client relationships to ensure project success and identify new opportunities
- Translate intricate financial concepts into tangible artifacts and actionable product strategies
Qualifications:
- Extensive experience in the financial sector and product management
- Deep understanding of financial services landscape and trends
- Demonstrated experience in product development
- Proven ability to manage full product lifecycles from discovery to delivery
- Strong communication skills, adept at stakeholder management
- Analytical mindset with a focus on user-centric approaches
- Good understanding of technical aspects, experience with frontend related development, and data heavy platforms
- We work across various financial services domains. For this role, experience in Trading, Portfolio Management, and Risk Managementis a plus
Core Product and Delivery Skills:
- Strong product mindset including hypothesis driven development and data-driven results
- User-centered thinking and ability to collaborate with UX teams
- Strategic road mapping and prioritization
- Agile methodologies and practices
- Day-to-day backlog management
- Data-driven decision making
- Stakeholder management and communication
- Delivery and Project management
Leadership and Relationship Building:
- Ability to mobilize cross-functional teams towards achieving key business outcomes
- Driving and demonstrating business value
- Expertise in navigating complex client ecosystems and building long-term partnerships
- Skill in identifying and capitalizing on new business opportunities within existing client relationships
- Capacity to influence and gain buy-in from both internal stakeholders and client executives
Lab49/ION is committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive environment for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We respect the varied identities, abilities, cultures, and traditions of the individuals who comprise our organization and recognize the value that different backgrounds and points of view bring to our business.
Lab49/ION adheres to an equal employment opportunity policy that prohibits discriminatory practices or harassment against applicants or employees based on any legally impermissible factor.
