Product Manager for Savings

After years of negative rates, the savings market is thriving again! Last year, households in the Dutch market saved a record 30 billion euros, and new challengers are entering the retail banking market. Our team of 25 colleagues, divided into four squads, is responsible for the savings proposition, product capabilities, IT development, marketing, and rates.

Every day, millions of customers are inquiring about their savings accounts and making millions of savings transactions. This is the core focus of squad Nakamoto. We aim to provide a seamless, frictionless experience for all these inquiries and transactions. Are you excited about being the sparring partner for IT engineers in the squad and organizing day-to-day priorities? If so, read further!

The tribe

In our tribe Daily Banking & Mobile Led, we work towards becoming the best mobile-led bank on the continent. We are looking for an experienced product manager with strong IT affinity to help us realize this ambition for our saving products. Do you have concrete affinity with developing and optimizing products and processes? Are you full of breakthrough ideas on how we can develop our future savings proposition? Does this spark your curiosity towards the underlying IT landscape? Do you have an entrepreneurial mindset to take it on & make it happen? That means we are looking for you!

Your team

Daily Banking & Mobile Led is one of the largest tribes within ING Retail. Together with about 60 agile teams (squads) in Amsterdam, Leeuwarden, and abroad, we work towards becoming the best mobile-led bank on the continent. The tribe entails the products and processes associated with current accounts, savings accounts, onboarding of customers, and billing. Hence, we are at the heart of the bank and provide for the daily financial needs of our customers!

This position is in the Product Savings domain in Amsterdam, which is responsible for all saving products like the Orange Savings Account, Savings Goals, and Fixed Term Deposits. The team is responsible for the proposition, product capabilities, IT development, marketing, and rates. Together with your colleague customer journey experts, product managers and IT engineers, you strive towards realizing the best customer experience for our customers and employees according to ING’s customer experience principles: personal, easy, and smart.

How to succeed

You are a team player, have proficient problem-solving ability, and can drive projects from concept to execution. As a Product Manager for Savings, you:

• Organize daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and tasks for engineers.

• Translate features into realizable roadmaps, taking MVP slicing and milestones into account.

• Define project principles, requirements, and use process designs to visualize changes.

• Coordinate development and deployment of integrated IT solutions.

• Understand the need to comply with regulations and policies but dare to debate alternatives and challenge the status quo.

• Drive to make things happen.

• Based on experience, train/coach team members in project management, process analysis, and Business-to-IT delivery.

About you

You have:

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree.

• Around 5+ years of relevant work experience.

• A proactive, enthusiastic, and professional attitude.

• Strong analytical skills and you are client-oriented and a team player.

• Solid numerical skills and pay attention to detail.

• A curious mindset for the underlying application architecture, relevant IT landscape, and technologies.

• Realization skills with the ability to take on a challenge and make it happen.

• Solid communication and collaborative skills to interact with different stakeholders and team members.
  

Rewards and benefits

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions here.

The benefits of working with us at ING include: 

• An excellent base salary in scale 11
• The salary is tailored to your qualities and experience.
• 24-27 vacation days depending on contract.
• Pension scheme. 
• 13th month salary. 
• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary 
• 8% Holiday payment.
• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities.
• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues 
• Work Agile, so new ideas come to life faster 
• Hybrid working location, with the office located in Amsterdam

Ready to apply?

Please note that we are happy to receive your application in English. Please add a recent CV plus cover letter in which you explain why you are the one we need for our area. We look forward to meet you!

Procedure

Please note that it may take some time before we respond to your application and inform you about the next steps in the procedure. Then you will hear whether you will be invited for a first interview. The full procedure consists of two interview. 

About us

With 60,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to work.