Product Owner

Invest in your future by being a part of an innovative technology team! Our partner is a financial services organization focused on making a difference in people’s lives and the communities they serve. As an organization founded more than 165 years ago, they now employ 22,000 people dedicated to the company’s values of integrity, ownership, collaboration, curiosity, and candor. Here, you’ll be empowered to build products that revolutionize the way their customers do business.

Employment Requirements

This opportunity is not open to C2C relationships or visa sponsorship.

This opportunity is for local candidates only.

Job Description

Solu is currently seeking a Product Owner to join our client’s team. The Product Owner serves as owner for an assigned product or set of products by representing the voice of the customer and stakeholders to ensure that the product provides value to the customer, while aligning with the business strategy. The Product Owner defines their product vision and roadmap, prioritizes the product backlog, anticipates client needs, and serves as primary communicator between product stakeholders and teams while evaluating product progress at each iteration. In addition, the Product Owner plays a key role in the company's strategic direction, defining and articulating new opportunities, and working in close concert with key stakeholders, including senior leadership and their dedicated agile team.

Responsibilities

• Build and own the product vision and roadmap that aligns with the overall strategic intent and communicate them with the team and all stakeholders. Prioritize the backlog based on the overall product vision and strategy.
• Represent the voice of the customer within the team and convey story details to the team; make autonomous decisions, quickly and thoughtfully, to move delivery forward in alignment with overall product vision and strategy.
• Write user stories and groom the backlog in partnership with the team. Specify acceptance criteria for each user story in support of moving the team to Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD).
• Work directly with the delivery team to create appropriate information radiators and other communication tools for internal team and stakeholder use.
• Participate in all team activities and ceremonies.
• Use a matrixed influencing approach to work with essential business partners throughout the organization irrespective of hierarchy or divisions, advocating for the benefit of the customer.
• Understand and engage with your customers.
• Focus on outcomes over outputs, incorporating design thinking methods and analytics to inform product design.
• Collaborate across teams and with other Product Owners to align the customer journey and dependent backlogs.
• Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls in accordance with the Company's Risk Appetite.
• Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
• Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the Bank brand.
• Maintain Bank internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.
• Complete other related duties as assigned.
• No direct management responsibility, but while an individual contributor, the job holder must manage activities through influence, accountability and ownership, functioning in an agile.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience in business, analytical, technical, and/or product roles, or a combined minimum of 8 years of higher education and/or work experience.
• Previous experience as a Product Owner.
• A minimum of four years’ experience with Agile methodologies
• Must have a strong background as a business analyst.
• Prior experience prioritizing across competing priorities and a rapidly changing landscape.
• Proven ability to actively seek out multiple opinions, make independent decisions, and influence positive outcomes.
• Understanding of Design Thinking principles.
• Knowledge of basic product design and development best practices.
• Familiarity with Agile and Lean principles and practices.
• Experience collaborating with user experience teams on product design.
• Experience in developing/managing digital capabilities.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Specific subject matter expertise as required by the assigned product.
  

Solü Technology Partners provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or genetics.

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Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience in business, analytical, technical, and/or product roles, or a combined minimum of 8 years of higher education and/or work experience.
• Previous experience as a Product Owner.
• A minimum of four years’ experience with Agile methodologies
• Must have a strong background as a business analyst.
• Prior experience prioritizing across competing priorities and a rapidly changing landscape.
• Proven ability to actively seek out multiple opinions, make independent decisions, and influence positive outcomes.
• Understanding of Design Thinking principles.
• Knowledge of basic product design and development best practices.
• Familiarity with Agile and Lean principles and practices.
• Experience collaborating with user experience teams on product design.
• Experience in developing/managing digital capabilities.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Specific subject matter expertise as required by the assigned product.
  

Solü Technology Partners provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or genetics.