Product Area Lead Daily Banking

Discover ING BankING believes in a world where everyone has the right to grow and progress in their own way. We express this in our global tagline, “do your thing”. Perhaps more than in any other large company, we extend our belief in the power of autonomy to our own people. But there’s a catch. In return for great freedom, we expect people to do great things for our customers, our stakeholders, and ING at large.To work here is to be surrounded by people who are energetic, ambitious, friendly and respectful: talented specialists who take the responsibility and autonomy to make great things happen. We stay curious, thrive on change, and seek new and better ways to make it happen. Active in Romania for 30 years, ING Bank pioneered and challenged the local banking industry. Technology and innovation are at the core of what we do, making our products relevant for our customers’ lives and businesses.ING Bank Romania is the only bank with an organic growth within the top 10 local banks by assets, without acquisitions of client portfolios or other banks. ING Bank Romania is an universal bank with more than 1.8 million customers from three business segments: individuals (retail), SME and Mid-Corporate companies and Wholesale Banking.Join usMissionThe delivery of complex products or features, involving several squads that develop multiple parts or features of a product (Product), in relation to multiple external stakeholders, requires the leadership & coordination of a Product Area Lead (PAL).Your Day to Day- Be responsible with the overall strategy and vision of the product in the area under ownership, ensuring that this is completely aligned with the other delivery areas within the Tribe and with the overarching Tribe strategic direction and objectives.- Bear the full accountability over the success of the product delivery and the achievement of all related performance indicators: CX, NFR, security, innovation, financial, technical etc.- Will act as asset owner of the assets in the area, ensuring full compliance with the asset ownership-related requirements and obligations.- Will act as lead on cross-Tribe projects, ensuring delivery success.- will act as hierarchical manager of the CJEs in the squads in the area, being responsible with their growth and performance.Delivery- You are accountable for the product’s vision and strategy, as well as of the processes associated with the product, throughout the product’s lifecycle: anticipating market demands & building new, innovative features, maintain existing features and decommission/replace features. You coordinate the Product Owners in the contributing squads who are responsible for the product’s parts.- You are responsible for the overall roadmap definition and the overall deliverables of the squads that contribute to the product, and hence for the product’s success, from all perspectives:- Business & commercial: in-time and bug-free delivery of features that bring value added to clients- Technical: ensure the proper technical evolution, maintenance & resilience of the technical components used for the product (code, automated tests, data bases, infrastructure)- Fraud & Security: deliver of the Anti-Fraud roadmap and ensure proper Security standards to the product- NFR: responsible for the compliancy on all NFR-related elements of the product (IT Risk included).- Financial: responsible for all costs/revenues elements related to the Product and the associated targets.- Thus, you manage product’s complexity and bring clarity to the squads regarding individual contribution to the product evolution.- You are responsible to coordinate at QBR level the backlogs of the squads, by collaborating with the Tribe Lead, Product Owners, Architects & all other internal & external stakeholders. This entails a thorough understanding of both individual projects in the backlogs, but also of the Tribe’s and Bank’s Agenda and Priorities.- You collaborate with other PALs in the Tribe and the Tribe Lead to ensure full alignment towards the strategic objectives of the Tribe.- You collaborate and coordinate daily with the Product Owners, to assist with impediment removal, product backlog refinement and release planning.- You collaborate with the CoE of CX, Innovation & UX to ensure that features under ownership provide a state-of-the-art experience to the clients.- You will act as asset owner of the assets in the area, ensuring full compliance with the asset ownership-related requirements and obligations.- You will act as lead on cross-Tribe projects, ensuring delivery success irrespective of the executing squads, as appointed by the Tribe Lead- You manage all key stakeholders of the product, both internal (Tribe Lead, other PALs, POs, ITAL) and external to the Tribe. You represent the Tribe in front of any external stakeholders, acting as a proxy for the Tribe Lead whenever necessary.- You coordinate, on the technical level, with architects, IT Area