PRODUCT OWNER - MARKETPLACE
Your Next Career Move:
This isn’t just about managing a backlog; this is your opportunity to redefine how millions of customers in emerging markets access financial products and lifestyle services through a seamless digital marketplace.
We’ve been engaged to help scale the Product organization of a world-class digital banking and data analytics hub. Operating across Southeast Asia and South Africa, this organization is on a mission to unlock human potential by creating transformative financial services that empower individuals and small businesses.
As a Product Owner for the Marketplace portfolio, you will be part Product Visionary, part Business Strategist, and part Customer Advocate. You will bridge the gap between business vision and engineering execution, ensuring that the marketplace ecosystem, integrating products, partners, and services, lands with precision and scales effectively for over 15 million customers.
📌 Product Impact: You’ll drive the discovery and inception of marketplace features, defining the MVP and mapping out the long-term horizon. From validating customer hypotheses to leading high-performing scrum teams, you are the catalyst for a rewarding customer experience.
This is a full-time role for disciplined product leaders who thrive in fast-paced fintech environments. While our primary innovation hub is in Ho Chi Minh City, we are open to top-tier talent across the region who are ready to join our mission through a flexible, travel-ready model.
Job Purpose:
We are looking for a Product Owner - Marketplace to translate complex business requirements and customer insights into a prioritized product roadmap. You will own the end-to-end delivery lifecycle, collaborating with UX, Marketing, and Analytics to validate scope and ensure every feature is backed by data and business value.
By managing stakeholders across Risk, Compliance, and Finance, you will ensure that marketplace innovations are not only cutting-edge but operationally sound and commercially viable.
The Team:
You’ll join a team of innovation champions, bankers, and fintech experts. The Product team is known for its reinvention mindset, blending strategic vision with hands-on management. You will work within an international culture that values openness, continuous learning, and leverages the latest technologies, including AWS Cloud, AI-augmented engineering, and microservices.
What You’ll Own:
Vision & Requirements: Partner with business stakeholders and scrum teams to define the marketplace vision and clarify technical requirements.
Discovery & MVP Mapping: Drive project discovery and inception; define the MVP for launch and map out successive iterations and horizons.
Agile Delivery Leadership: Prioritize the backlog, write user stories, and lead sprint planning to move features into production daily.
Customer Experience Validation: Work with UXD and Research to identify customer personas, validate product scope, and ensure designs meet customer motivations.
Stakeholder Alignment: Liaise regularly with Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Finance to mitigate risks and ensure project decisions are agreed upon across the board.
Data-Driven Hypotheses: Identify and validate customer problems through clear learning objectives, ensuring proper analytics coverage to inform the roadmap.
Continuous Improvement: Seek out innovative technologies and lead the scrum team in improving delivery standards and metrics.
What You Bring To The Table:
Proven Track Record: Experience successfully managing digital products from inception to completion within an Agile environment.
Certified Expertise: CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner) or equivalent Agile qualifications are highly desirable.
Technical & Business Fluency: Ability to liaise between technical developers and business stakeholders, translating technical implications into business value.
Ambiguity Navigator: Proven ability to thrive in fast-paced, dynamic, and sometimes high-pressure situations.
Commercial Acumen: A desire to base product decisions on hard data, analytics, and measurable business impact.
Industry Knowledge: Experience in financial services or fintech is a distinct advantage.
Location & Schedule Flexibility
Primary Hub: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
The Setup: We are seeking the best Product minds across Southeast Asia, Australia, India, and South Africa.
📝 Relocation or Travel: We prioritize finding the right talent over a specific zip code. We are open to:
Candidates willing to relocate to join our HCMC community.
Regional experts who prefer to stay in their home country but can commit to frequent travel to Vietnam for critical product rituals, discovery workshops, and major launches.
Hybrid Culture: We value deep work and autonomy, offering a flexible environment that respects both remote focus and the synergy of in-person collaboration.
Your Future Starts Here. Are You Ready?
If you are a product leader who thrives at the intersection of technical complexity and customer empathy, and you want to scale digital banking solutions that genuinely empower people, this role was built for you.
While we’d love to respond to every application, we’ll only be reaching out to shortlisted candidates. Thank you for your understanding and interest.
