AVP, Product Owner
About The Position
What if you could build a career where ambition meets innovation? At LPL Financial, we empower professionals to shape their success while helping clients pursue their financial goals with confidence. What if you could have access to cutting-edge resources, a collaborative environment, and the freedom to make an impact? If you're ready to take the next step, discover what’s possible with LPL Financial. Job Overview: The Product Owner works within the agile process and is the final authority for decisions regarding priority, business value, and functionality for all the work done by the Agile development team. The Product Owner possesses an in depth knowledge of goals and desired objectives of the project, as well as analytical skills to assess and articulate what needs to be built. This person will be a part of ALM team.
Requirements
- 5+ Product management experience within an agile delivery framework
- 5+ years financial services experience
- A track record of innovative thinking and problem solving
- Business Analysis experience
- Track record of delivering in Agile software development methodologies
- Passion for delivering the best client experience both internally and externally
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively with all levels of staff and management across multiple partner teams
- Exemplary collaboration, interpersonal, and presentation skills
- Superior skill and ability in multi-tasking and appropriate prioritization
- Ability to effectively respond to dynamically changing work environment and to positively influence business outcomes
Nice To Haves
- AWS/Cloud project or product experience preferred
- Wealth management experience highly preferred
Responsibilities
- Liaison & Communication Acts as a fully integrated team member. Ably represents the business user and product priorities. Uses clear goals to communicate vision at the beginning of every release and sprint so that the team understands and is equipped to realize it. Analyzes business systems and clearly communicates requirements through epics and stories so they are understood. Communicates status outside the team.
- Agile Scrum Team Creates, maintains, prioritizes, and sequences the product backlog based on business value or ROI. Creates user stories and acceptance tests from themes and features granular enough for a single sprint. Prioritizes user stories by business value. Decides which user stories are scheduled into sprints. Provides rapid feedback. Participates in product increment planning, daily stand-up meetings (scrums), reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
- Application Support Reviews deliverable and demonstrable code after every sprint, and has the authority to accept or reject. Develops and maintains standards for testing and progress visibility. Provides progress reporting. Assists as needed with backlog maintenance. Assists with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information. Assists with prioritization and resolution of defects / bugs
- Management Is always accessible and participates proactively and constantly in the team activities. Steers the project to ensure delivery of business value. Is visible, vocal, and objective.
Benefits
- LPL Total Rewards package is highly competitive, designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play – such as 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
