Product Owner - Advanced Analytics and AI

Are you passionate about Advanced Analytics & AI? Do you want to be part of our team, providing our business with highly accurate insights and models that drive us forward in a data-driven way? Then you should apply for the position as a Product Owner and help us on our mission - to be a leader in using Advanced Analytics and AI to deliver superior products, service, and experience to our customers!

Your Role
As Product Owner you will lead one of our two data science teams in terms of defining Advanced Analytics and AI (AAAI) vision, roadmap, and growth opportunities, and communicate with stakeholders throughout projects. Your will be responsible for maximizing the business value and your delivery responsibility stretches from idea to industrialization. You will also be part of building and shaping our AAAI department.

The role encompasses an exceptional learning opportunity, in which you together with highly motivated and merited colleagues will solve some of our most complex business challenges, which help shape the future of the financial industry. Furthermore, it is an opportunity to leverage your leadership and communication capabilities in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

The role involves tasks and responsibilities such as:

• Develop visions, strategies, and roadmaps from an AAAI perspective together with different business units.
• Work with stakeholders in different areas of the bank to identify AAAI opportunities and define projects.
• Design AAAI solutions together with business stakeholders, the data science team and the Lead Data Scientist to maximize impact; function as the link and catalyst
• Plan and prioritize product development and product feature backlog.
• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories and epics to ensure work aligns with product strategy
• Mitigate roadblocks to achieving goals
• Lead the product-release plans and set expectations for delivery of new functionalities
• Pressure-test algorithms from a business logic perspective and develop value-proofs/business cases

About You

• You have a Master’s degree, PhD or similar in Business, Engineering or other relevant advanced degree with above average academic results.
• 3+ years of relevant work experience in a position requiring strong analytical skills
• 3+ years of Product Owner, team lead or project management experience (formal or informal)
• Outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills
• You are self-reliant and business-oriented with a pragmatic mindset and an interest in tech
• You understand Swedish at an advanced level
• Understanding of working with advanced analytics tools and technologies or digital development teams
• You have an ability to drive delivery efficiency through focusing, prioritizing, and organizing the team’s work
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good understanding of AAAI use cases together with an ability to understand business operations and translate them into well-defined analytical deliverables

We are looking for a person who fits the positive, friendly, and supportive culture of Handelsbanken. The ideal candidate is curious, inventive, strives for improvement every single day and shares our aim to be smart, humble and, above all, collaborative.

We offer

• The chance to develop fast, make a big impact and cut out new paths in an expanding team at the core of Handelsbanken’s ambitious focus on digitalization
• A friendly and collaborative work environment where colleagues learn and achieve together
• Competitive compensation and pension plan
• Extensive benefit package (subsidized banking services, health care, lunch and more)
• Flexibility to work from home part-time and good work-life balance
• Office at prime location in central Stockholm The promotion of gender equality, diversity and an inclusive corporate culture is a fundamental part of our values. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to submit their applications.

About us
With over 2,000 employees, we are one of Sweden’s largest tech organisations. Our focus on the future is matched by our pride in our history. Therefore we’re constantly on the lookout for people with new skills who can see the challenges and opportunities in our digitalisation work. This applies to everything from operations, maintenance and system management to development, innovation and design.

We have a decentralised organisational structure, in which you the employee are trusted to take a high degree of responsibility. Long-term business relations, low risk-taking and cost-awareness are cornerstones of Handelsbanken’s corporate culture. They form the basis of our banking operations being run in a responsible, sustainable and successful manner. When we recruit, we seek people who share the Bank’s fundamental values. The goal is for employees to reflect the markets in which we operate – with different backgrounds, skills, and work experience, as well as different ways of thinking and solving problems.

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