Senior Product Owner - Credit

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Cape Town, Western Cape, ZAF
In-Office
Senior level
Fintech • Insurance • Financial Services
The Role
Own the Credit Platform product backlog, prioritize initiatives, evaluate business cases, and translate stakeholder requirements into clear engineering deliverables. Partner with business operations, delivery teams, and Engineering to plan and launch features within scope, budget, and timeline constraints. Drive iterative product development using lean and MVP principles, remove blockers, manage stakeholder alignment, and evaluate progress throughout the development lifecycle.
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What We Do:

We're Lula. We build innovative fintech products to help SMEs make cash flow. From instant access to funding to all-in-one business banking accounts, we're on it!

Our purpose is to help SMEs manage their business better, faster, simpler, Lula, so they can spend more time doing what they love.

Speaking of love, we’re looking for Lulas who love to make a difference to join our team and change the game.

CULTURE CODE

  • We Embrace Curiosity- We continuously seek better ways to deliver value with a solutions-over-problems mindset.
  • We win as One - We collaborate, build strong relationships and value diverse perspectives
  • We’re Driven by Purpose - We are passionate and committed to delivering the best products and services for SMEs
  • We Execute with Ambition - We set ambitious goals, embrace challenges, and deliver with focus and determination.

OVERALL PURPOSE

You’ll work alongside various business stakeholders to validate and document requirements for the engineering team to execute against, and collaborate closely with business operations to ensure successful delivery and business readiness for new features of our Credit Platform.

The role works very closely with our Engineering team to manage our product backlog, remove blockers and adapt to ensure that we deliver a best-in-class product to our customers. Collaboration with our Delivery Teams will also be important to ensure the timely, reliable delivery of Lula products. 

You’ll be successful in the role if you are able to build strong working relationships with business stakeholders and inspire our Engineering team to deliver top-class solutions within well defined timelines.

Responsibilities will include:

  • Evaluate business ideas by assessing business value and urgency. 
  • Develop business cases with business teams and senior product team members to determine commercial, operational and technical feasibility of ideas. 
  • Managing the product backlog, prioritizing in line with business objectives by determining and managing budget, scope and time constraints.
  • Overseeing the development of our products by playing a key role in planning. 
  • Stakeholder management - you are the link between stakeholders and our Engineering team, ensuring buy-in and the delivery of clear instructions and deliverables for our Developers.
  • Adopting a mindset of product iteration, responsible for evaluating progress at each stage of the development process.

THE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE’RE LOOKING FOR

  • Bachelor degree in a relevant field or equivalent
  • Product owner certification an added bonus
  • 5+ years experience as a Product Owner, ideally with credit experience
  • Experience with platform/backend projects.
  • Managing and building out a backlog with a focus on iterative and continuous delivery
  • Hands-on experience working with Engineering teams in an Agile environment
  • Experience building products iteratively by applying lean principles and focusing on MVPs
  • Understanding of agile development process
  • Technical acumen and genuine passion for technology
  • Understanding of core concepts related to UI/UX design

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner, ideally with credit experience
  • Experience with platform or backend projects
  • Experience managing and building product backlogs focused on iterative and continuous delivery
  • Hands-on experience working with Engineering teams in an Agile environment
  • Experience building products iteratively using lean principles and MVPs
  • Understanding of Agile development processes
  • Technical acumen and passion for technology
  • Understanding of core UI/UX design concepts
  • Product Owner certification
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The Company
Cape Town
199 Employees
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

Lula is an innovative, and human-focused FinTech company on a mission to help small businesses make cash flow. We want to make it fast, simple, Lula for people to run their business through a digital business bank account. We’re making business banking fast, easy & human

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