Product Owner III

Benefits Overview

A career at CoBank can offer you the opportunity to make a personal impact on the people and communities where we do business. When you choose a career with CoBank, you make a difference by standing for something that matters. In order to be the best, we hire the best!

Remarkable Benefits Offered By CoBank

• Careers with a purpose. Stand for something!
• Time-Off Packages, boasting over 15 days of vacation, 10 paid sick days and 11 paid holidays
• Competitive Compensation & Incentive
• Hybrid work model: flexible arrangements for most positions
• Benefits Packages, including Medical, Dental and Vision coverage, Disability, AD&D, and Life Insurance
• Robust associate training and development with CoBank University
• Tuition reimbursement for higher education up to $10,000 per year
• Outstanding 401k: up to 6% matching and additional 3% non-elective contribution
• Community Impact: United Way Angel Day, Volunteer Day and Associate Directed Contribution
• Associate Resource Groups: creating a culture of diversity and inclusion
• Recognize a fellow associate through our GEM awards
  
  

Job Description

Responsible for supporting the Product Manager in the execution and delivery of CoBank's capabilities, customer and associate experiences. Partners and develops relationships with stakeholders to align with business strategy and quickly respond to opportunities. Effectively prioritizes the Agile Team backlog, within the SAFe Agile framework, to deliver the most valuable initiatives for the Bank and its customers. Is responsible for building the backlog of work delivables in Azure Dev Ops by decomposing prioritized Features into the detailed User Stories for their Agile delivery team. In partnership with the Product Manager and Scrum Master, identifies, assesses, arbitrates and resolves conflicts and/or variances between functional group sub-processes and customer requirements. Oversees work process standardization, documentation, optimization and scalability.

Essential Functions

• Manages planning and delivery of key themes, through translating and decomposing Features and User Stories. Works with Agile Delivery teams to organize and prioritize work efforts through Planning Intervals (PI).
• Drives Agile team PI objectives with business outcomes and success metrics, design thinking, customer feedback and competitive analysis.
• Works with and assists Product Manager in the identification and establishment of the desired future state, development of a strategic roadmap relating to E2E processes, data, supporting features & functionality, controls required to ensure dependability, scalability and defensibility. Works with Leadership to communicate desired future state across relevant CoBank departments, functional and sub-process groups.
• Crafts user stories for the enterprise capability, working directly with the delivery teams to deliver value.
• Collaborates cross-functionally to coordinate and manage resources and activities maximizing impact and overall return on investment.
• Works across team to ascertain, review and address the effectiveness and optimization challenges, and works with Leadership and across the governance structure to mitigate and resolve risks and issues relating to: associate engagement, behaviors, knowledge and skills, organizational priorities and/or dependencies, change and process improvement challenges.
• Interfaces with 3rd party vendors and contractors, where required, to deliver necessary pieces of our technical product with time-to-market excellence.
• Responsible for understanding the market and farm credit’s niche landscape in order to maintain competitiveness. Ensures product compliance with bank policies and regulatory standards. Maintains expertise regarding competition, best practices and benchmarks.
  
  

Education

• Bachelor's Degree required
  
  

Work Experience

5 years of experience in financial industry, required

5 years of experience with Platform/ Program/ Product Management/Consulting, required

Deep experience working with Technology, Data, UX

Excellent communication skills

Excellent problem solving skills

Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills

Excellent conflict management skills

Excellent organizational and time management skills

SAFe POPM and SAFe APM certification

About CoBank

The typical base pay range for this role is between $105,222.77 - $146,312.26. Compensation may vary based on individual job-related knowledge, skills, expertise, and experience. This position is eligible for a discretionary annual incentive program driven by organization and individual performance.

The listed salary, other compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. This job will be posted for a minimum of five (5) business days or until the position is filled. CoBank reserves the right to adjust compensation for all positions and to modify or discontinue benefits programs at any time in its sole discretion, subject to applicable law.

CoBank is a cooperative bank serving vital industries across rural America. The bank provides loans, leases, export financing and other financial services to agribusinesses and rural power, water and communications providers in all 50 states. The bank also provides wholesale loans and other financial services to affiliated Farm Credit associations serving more than 76,000 farmers, ranchers and other rural borrowers in 23 states around the country. CoBank is a member of the Farm Credit System, a nationwide network of banks and retail lending associations chartered to support the borrowing needs of U.S. agriculture, rural infrastructure and rural communities. Headquartered outside Denver, Colorado, CoBank serves customers from regional banking centers across the U.S. and also maintains an international representative office in Singapore.

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION

We are committed to ensuring that our online application process provides an equal employment opportunity to all applicants, including qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are an applicant with a disability, or are assisting an applicant with a disability, and require accessibility assistance or would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any aspect of the application process, including completing an application, interviewing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please submit a request by emailing recruiting@cobank.com. Include your contact information and specific details about your requested accommodation.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

CoBank is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.