Silent Eight

Who we are 

We are an award-winning innovative RegTech Firm with a passion for Artificial Intelligence that makes the world safer. We work with several large international banks and financial institutions, such as Standard Chartered Bank and HSBC, to provide them with powerful tools that combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing. Our technological innovation has brought us the support of leading Venture Capital Funds from Silicon Valley and Singapore.

 

Who are we looking for

As we rapidly expand our footprint, we are growing our multi-talented team bigger and stronger.  We are looking for a smart and motivated Product Owner/Senior Business Analyst with excellent leadership and analytical skills to mold the definition and direction of our extensive set of Product Offering in the areas of Machine Learning and AI use in Financial Crime Compliance and Anti Money Laundering.

As a Product Owner/Senior Business Analyst, you’ll be working closely with the engineering team to present to them the overall product vision and specification in an actionable manner. You’ll work together to build a state of the art Anti-Money Laundering software to help achieve the bank’s financial crime risk and compliance goals. 

 

Tasks include

• You’ll be closely working with other members of the product management team to define and understand the product vision, strategic product direction, and roadmap
• You’ll be a product expert - constantly learning the ins and outs of the product
• You’ll define and articulate the minimum viable product
• You’ll specify and document software requirements in story format (as in agile methodology) with proper acceptance criteria that meet the product and business requirements. You’ll accept each story and feature, participate in team demos to validate the quality and provide feedback.
• You’ll define and prioritize requirements for data science opportunities, Adapters, User Experience, and Audit trail and explainability
• You’ll work closely with the engineering team to present the requirements, resolve questions and provide clarifications raised by the team during the development process
• You’ll represent the team when needed to external stakeholders, leaders, and other teams to ensure alignment and understanding of the progress of the team
• You’ll actively participate in regular activities of an agile team, including inspection and acceptance/rejection of completed work 
• You’ll manage release communications, provide reports to the Head of Product and business partners on key product milestones
• You’ll create and maintain documentation (functional specification of the product)

Our Requirements

• Min. 3 years of proven work experience as a Product Owner, Product Analyst, Product Manager or another related product role successfully delivering large scale enterprise products
• In-depth understanding of Agile development methodologies (particularly Scrum) and industry-standard practices and tools such as Jira, Confluence, YouTrack, etc
• Hands-on experience authoring and refining user stories, grooming product backlogs, and prioritizing conflicting requirements.
• Experience in managing complex systems that must be both scalable, reliable, and ready for integration with existing, complex business banking processes.
• A deep understanding of software development life cycle.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present and articulate complex business and software requirements in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences 
• Good listening and negotiation skills – can find compromises and tradeoffs to maximize delivered value across all stakeholders.
• Ability to make difficult decisions on a daily basis.
• Be creative, strategic, analytical, and think outside the box to solve problems
• Proficiency in English
• Bachelors in Computer Science or in Financial Services 
• Experience in Financial Services is nice to have, preferably in the areas of Financial Crime, Compliance, Anti-Money Laundering, Risk and/or Operations

 

What does a career at Silent Eight look like?

A career at Silent Eight enables you to work alongside a talented team of experts from around the world. We are not new to remote work-life, in fact we’ve been doing it since 2013. This means we understand some of the common pain-points of working remotely and strive to make sure you get both the benefits of remote work life, like autonomy, flexibility, and balance. But you never feel alone or unsupported.

We encourage both individuality and collaboration and want to create an atmosphere for your voice to shine. In practice, this means regular “tea time” (or coffee, if you prefer :) ), with your colleagues, monthly company calls; idea and brainstorm sessions; internal “hackathons”, and more. 

You are signing on for a true taste of life at a startup and all the fast-paced, quick-thinking, and excitement that the world of technology entails.  

As a member of our team, you will not only be supported in your immediate role/department, but you will have a chance to work across borders, languages, and cultures and contribute to our collective mission: to use cutting edge AI to make the world a safer place.

What are some of the benefits?

• You will be on the ground floor of technological innovation, using AI and the newest technology stack to solve for global problems.
  
• An often underplayed “perk” of remote work is autonomy.  At Silent Eight we see this as a benefit because it fosters ownership and the ability to care out something that is distinctly yours.  We celebrate autonomy and encourage new ideas, and we want you to share yours!
  
• You will contribute to weekly/bi-weekly ideation sharing sessions, as well as participate in ongoing requests for input and feedback. We have a culture of openness and willingness to change when things aren’t working.
  
• Because learning never ends, we encourage each of our employees to take a day to learn or try something new. Take an Annual Development day, on us!
  
• Your work will have an actual impact on how the biggest banks around the world stop money laundering and terrorism financing activities. But more than just banks, you will play a part in fighting the human cost of financial crime, a cause that is at the core of our mission and beliefs.
  
• Take part in regular get-togethers, including seasonal parties, international meetings. Even with COVID, we gather for regular video gatherings just for fun :) And we love memes, especially dog ones.

Silent Eight is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or other classification protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

 

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