Product Owner (12-Month Contract)
Posted on 2025-03-29
| Employer | Datafin |
|---|---|
| Salary | 0 |
| Category | It Computer |
| Location | Western Cape / Cape Town |
Job Summary
Cape Town – Western Cape – South Africa
- Define and maintain the product vision for the Quants team, aligning it with business goals.
- Develop and prioritize the product roadmap in collaboration with business stakeholders and the Quants team.
- Ensure that the team is working on the highest-priority tasks to meet business objectives.
- Serve as the primary point of contact between the business and the Quants team.
- Gather and translate business requirements into detailed technical requirements for the team.
- Communicate progress, deliverables, and changes effectively with stakeholders and senior management.
- Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring that it is well-defined, up to date, and prioritized based on business value and risk.
- Continuously refine the backlog in collaboration with the Quants team to adapt to new data, discoveries, or business needs.
- Plan and participate in sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Ensure the Quants team delivers high-quality models, tools, and analytics on timeously and efficiently.
- Manage the scope of work and make adjustments as needed based on feedback or changing requirements.
- Work closely with Data Scientists, Analysts, and Engineers to ensure the quantitative models are built on robust and relevant data.
- Ensure alignment between the business needs and the quantitative models being developed.
- Collaborate with Risk teams to ensure that models meet regulatory and compliance requirements.
- Ensure that potential risks associated with model assumptions, data quality, or methodologies are identified and mitigated.
- Define metrics to assess the performance of models and strategies delivered by the Quants team.
- Gather feedback from users (Traders, Portfolio Managers, etc.) and use it to refine product development.
- Masters or Bachelors Degree in a quantitative field such as Mathematics, Statistics, Financial Engineering, Economics, Computer Science, or similar.
- 7+ Years of experience in Product Management, with a focus on financial markets, trading, quantitative research projects and/or web-based tools.
- Experience working with Quantitative Research teams, Data Scientists, or Algorithmic Trading teams.
- Strong understanding of financial markets, quantitative models, and data analytics.
- Proficiency in Data Analysis, Web Development, and Quantitative research tools.
- Familiarity with Quantitative Modeling techniques, Statistical Analysis, and Risk Modeling.
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or similar Agile Certification.
- Experience in Product Management in a financial or technology firm.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and experience working in Agile teams, and experience with Jira.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to balance business needs and technical challenges.
- Excellent communication skills to articulate complex ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Leadership abilities to motivate and guide a cross-functional team.
Product Owner (12-Month Contract) position available in Western Cape, Cape Town. This job position was posted by Datafin. The job has been posted as a premium ad on 2025-03-29 at 16:10:36 in the It Computer category
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