Digital Product Owner-SmartAuction

Ally Financial • Detroit, MI

243d • Onsite

About The Position

At Ally, you get a startup feel, but experience the benefits of a company that has worked out the kinks and is fulfilling its purpose. We are always evolving and see that as a good thing. From owning our work to seeing its impact in the real world, our team is relentless in finding new ways technology can help make experiences better and help people. We are problem solvers, we value diverse thinking, we support one another, and we challenge ourselves to think bigger in the journey to deliver customer-obsessed tech solutions. We have an opportunity for a Digital Product Owner to join our SmartAuction Digital Product team. This role will be responsible for helping to strategize, guide development work, and implement solutions that power the SmartAuction web pages and mobile experiences. They will represent the partners of the product, own the business/partner relationship, the backlog, the User Stories, and the priorities of work. They will strive to understand the business goals while anticipating their needs and comprehending the product's VOC. You will need to be in regular contact with the Product Management team.

Requirements

• Minimum BA/BS degree or applicable work experience.
• Experience in digital or financial services.
• Experience as a Product Owner.
• Hands on experience with agile.
• Effective communication & negotiation skills across all levels of the organization.
• High degree of organization, individual initiative, and personal accountability.
• Ability to balance multiple requests and competing priorities.
• Candidate must be highly adaptable and experienced driving results in a dynamic, fast paced, cross-functional environment.
• Self-sufficient & collaborative teammate with desire to have fun within a result-driven organization.
• Strong PC skills required: Excel, Word and PowerPoint proficiency are a requirement.
• Experience with web analytics tools a plus (Adobe, Google).

Responsibilities

• Serve as a Product Owner for a dedicated development team.
• Translate business goals into functional strategies and tactical user stories for the development team to implement.
• Articulate user stories with clear business value & well-defined acceptance test criteria.
• Groom and prioritize the backlog.
• Create & define the product vision and strategy.
• Manage the team roadmap.
• Assess impact of new features and initiatives by understanding the customer needs, the users, the marketplace, the competition, and future trends.
• Understand and analyze VOC for use in application feature development.
• Anticipate, identify, and respond to problems and issues related to specific products.
• Lead the product design process to build out customer journey maps and user story maps.
• Remain engaged in all steps of the sprint, deployment, and release process, including business validation/testing and participation in regularly scheduled technology releases.
• Manage design/site updates through the Legal, Risk, Compliance review process.
• Work with analytics to define digital reporting requirements.
• Develop strategies and work plans for accomplishing goals.
• Be accessible and available; actively engaged with commitment to build the best product possible.

Benefits

• 11 paid holidays
• 20 paid time off days
• 8 hours of volunteer time off, yearly
• 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions
• Student loan pay downs and 529 educational save up assistance programs
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Flexible health and insurance options including medical, dental and vision
• Employee, spouse and child life insurance
• Short- and long-term disability
• Pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions
• Healthcare FSA
• Critical illness, accident & hospital indemnity insurance
• Adoption, surrogacy and fertility assistance
• Paid parental and caregiver leave
• Dependent Day Care FSA
• Mentally Fit Employee Assistance Program
• Subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree