About Brankas
Brankas is solving the "last mile" for Open Banking in Southeast Asia.
We are a global team of banking software experts backed by leading fintech venture capital firms in Asia and Silicon Valley. Our vision is to make modern financial services available to everyone, by increasing access and encouraging partnerships between financial institutions and fintech partners.
Brankas is building the next generation of Open APIs and infrastructure for banks, insurance, and other financial institutions across Southeast Asia. Our API-based technology supports real-time disbursements, customer payments by bank transfer, reconciliation, and account statement retrieval for online lenders.
We provide cutting-edge consumer and enterprise focused financial management software and systems. Brankas’ backend service-oriented architecture is entirely written in Go, and deployed on cloud-based systems (GCP, AWS, Azure), making heavy use of third-party systems and APIs.
About the position
In the role of PRODUCT MANAGER, scope of work will consist of the following:
Leading product strategy of your product, including:
Creating and enacting upon the product vision and north star metric
Research and market insights related to Brankas products
Execution of product strategy and roadmap
Formulation and tracking of product-related goals and metrics
Lead user experience strategy and ensure the voice of the customer/user is represented in all areas of the organization
Running workshops to determine customer journey maps, lo-med fidelity wireframes
Identifying persona’s for your product
Frequently interviewing customers to understand their needs
Own the complete product backlog from product definition to commercialization across one or several of Brankas’ main customer / partner verticals:
Banks
Insurance
Fintech companies
Other consumers of our APIs
Contribute to design, recruitment, and performance management within the Product team
Work cross-functionally with the development team, ensuring that epics and stories are planned in advance and estimations are low in volatility
Liaise directly with our Customers, Business Development and General Management teams to decide on the roadmap
Interact with clients, third-parties, suppliers, and contractors as needed
Fulfill general project management responsibilities, including but not limited to: working with and adhering to agile principles, creating user stories and user acceptance criteria, developing high level timelines based on engineering capacity, scheduling and prioritizing feature releases, overseeing implementation, and guiding developers and senior management on technology choices
Provide technical support to business development efforts, such as requirements gathering, initial technical support, advising on and overseeing client integration projects
Attempt to sell our products on an adhoc basis for purposes of understanding the product’s you have built
Qualifications
Bachelor degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
Technical background will be a plus.
5+ years’ experience in fintech product management and market strategy.
Relevant experience in a Fintech Company, especially in the Remittance and Forex market segments..
Well-versed with Fintech Innovations in the South East Asian Market.
Proven track record of working with designers, engineers, and various stakeholders to coordinate, plan, execute, and track product releases from beginning to end.
Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to think outside the box and roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done.
High energy, hands-on, detailed-oriented and able to work independently.
High degree of self-initiative, proactive and self-driven to drive results.
Able to think outside the box, innovate and differentiate.
Good organizing skills.
Good communication and interpersonal skills.
Self-starter, ability to work and thrive within a fast paced, culturally diverse and hands-on environment.
