Who Are We?
Bottomline is on a mission to be the world’s leading business payments company, aligning our team to the common purpose of transforming the way businesses pay and get paid.
It is a journey that goes around the world serving financial institutions and companies in more than 90 countries. Our offices across EMEA are conveniently positioned to enable a fulfilling and flexible, hybrid work-life balance. Places to collaborate and share knowledge across multidisciplinary teams, the officed also provide the perfect space to meet virtually with our colleagues across time zones.
Offices in Bengaluru, Singapore, Theale, London, Paris, Geneva, Zurich, Or Yehuda, Beirut and Prishtinë cover our financial technology solution suite and delivery model, supporting our customers across sales, programme management, operations, technical support, and development hubs.
Culture and Values
We are one global team, who work with and for each other in a drive to delight customers through excellent execution, which fuels how we create and grow sustained business value for our customers, our team and all who partner with us.
Our culture encourages people to be brave and curious, to drive to closure and to ensure our principles are lived out daily.
We excel at Bottomline because we are positive and passionate about building a #LifeAtBottomline
Role: Senior Product Owner
As a member of the Financial Messaging Product team, we are actively seeking an experienced and accomplished Senior Product Owner based in Bengaluru, to lead a dedicated technical scrum team responsible for building cloud platform components.
You’ll work in conjunction with the Product Development team, and other members of the Product Management team, to help define, document and build the detailed requirements needed to create industry-leading payment processing products.
Responsibilities:
- Product Ownership and Backlog Management:
- Take ownership of the backlog for a dedicated scrum team focused on developing software components for our payment cloud solutions.
- Gather business requirements, formulate them as Epics and Stories, and communicate them to the broader product management team and your scrum team.
- Assume full ownership of all aspects of the product, including the accuracy of stories, functional specifications, the architecture, and quality of delivery.
- Product Planning and Execution:
- Drive product planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle, including:
- Prioritizing both internal (product, architects, operations, support) and external (customer) requirements.
- Managing stakeholder expectations effectively.
- Assisting in the release process and collaborating with technical leads to ensure the delivery of high-quality software.
- Understand team velocity to assist with backlog prioritization, determine sprint cycle capacity, and define completion criteria.
- Collaboration and Support:
- Provide support, training, and demos to the sales, delivery, support, and marketing teams to ensure product understanding and achieve revenue targets and customer satisfaction goals.
- Act as a subject matter expert in specific focus areas for questions and issues.
- Understand and communicate the impact of requirement changes or planning adjustments.
Required Skills:
- 5+ years of proven experience in product ownership roles, preferably within a technical environment.
- Ability of leading a team and execute in a scrum agile methodology.
- Superior technical proficiency to comprehend cloud solutions and software components and engage effectively with development teams.
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Analytical ability to capture use case requirements and drive user story creation.
- Leadership and Initiative: Demonstrates proactive leadership and a strong spirit of initiative, taking proactive steps to drive projects forward without waiting for explicit instructions.
- Knowledge and experience in using Jira and Confluence.
- Strong interest in technical aspects, such as technical architecture, components, logs, security, service instantiation, deployment, and testing.
- Strong interest in business aspects such as service consumption and customer subscription processes.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks effectively.
Preferred Skills:
- Demonstrated ability to drive results and consistently meet or exceed challenging deadlines.
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority.
- Capability to demonstrate the product in front of large groups.
- Strong focus on quality. Desired experience in testing and validation.
- Ability to make critical product decisions within a sprint cycle.
- Commitment to enhancing personal technical skills and industry knowledge.
- Exceptional written and oral communication and stakeholder management skills.
Education and Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in technology related field
Working Location: For better result, the product owner should be near where the team is, in Bengaluru, India.
We welcome talent at all phases of their career, understanding and supporting additional needs (where applicable) as we look to innovate, win, and grow together.
Bottomline is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to treating all individuals in a fair and equal manner by creating an inclusive and open environment.
