The Avaloq group is an internationally leading fintech company. With its core and digital banking software and its international network of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)
centres, Avaloq brings trustworthy and efficient banking to the world, delivered through great user experience. Headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq has branches in the most demanding financial centres worldwide and serves 158 banks and wealth managers and the 270 Swiss cooperative banks. Avaloq’s growing ecosystem comprises among others over 2’000 employees from 66 nationalities and more than 500 third-party developers that co-innovate with Avaloq.
The positionThe CTO division is responsible for developing Avaloq’s banking platform and standards. Our biggest development shop is Digital Personas, which is responsible for developing software products targeting Wealth Managers, Financial Intermediaries (e.g. independent/external asset managers) as well as bank customers.
For this position, we are looking for a highly motivated product owner for Financial Intermediaries/EAM solutions, preferably with product- and project management experience as well as financial industry and technology know-how.
In your role as Software Product Owner FIM/EAM, you will take over the product ownership for Avaloq’s offerings for financial intermediaries and external asset manager. You will drive the software development with end-to-end responsibility, support sales cases and client demos and you are responsible for the ongoing improvement of the product line and ensure the products commercial viability. This job includes the creation and maintenance of the product vision and roadmap to ensure continuous market success. In this role, you will discuss and challenge requirements with internal and external stakeholders, ensure that the product is built according to specifications and market needs as well as present your product to all relevant stakeholders within the Avaloq community. In this role, you will work closely with product developers, IT architects as well as our national and international sales teams.
Your responsibilities
Ownership over of a software product for financial intermediaries (e.g. independent/external asset managers)
Create the product vision and challenge it in close collaboration with the central product management teams
Establish and maintain the product roadmap with involvement of customers, users and other stakeholders
Project management (e.g. budgeting, controlling, reviews) for the development and enhancement of the software product
Support pre-sales and sales activities as well as customer projects
Prepare and develop propelling present sales cases and enhance our commercial offering, present to prospects and represent your product and Avaloq at customer events
Liaise with Scrum teams, UX/UI teams, and other product owners and product managers
Education
Master’s in business and economics, banking, business information technology or equivalent education
Professional Requirements
Experienced software product owner/product manager or business analyst with software product responsibility
Excellent knowledge of the financial industry, ideally in area of independent/external asset management
Good understanding of marketing, pricing and sales activities
Successful track record as project manager, management of stakeholders
Excellent command of spoken and written English and German, French is a plus
Excellent presentation and communication skills Strong analytical and conceptual skills
Personal Requirements
You are a team player and you will continuously need to create teams around topics dynamically
You have an open mind and can work with people from all cultures and different backgrounds, international experience is a plus
You can work under pressure and meet deadlines, constantly reshuffling priorities and ensure to get your work done in the most efficient way
An ability to identify interest and stakeholders and to win and keep their support
Target-oriented cooperation with customers and colleagues
Note to Agencies: All unsolicited résumés will be considered direct applicants and no referral fee will be acknowledged.Additional information on Avaloq and on our other vacancies can be found onwww.avaloq.com/for-job-seekers
