MF COO - Product Management - Advisor

Fannie Mae•Reston, VA

1d•$141,000 - $184,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Playing an essential role in the U.S. economy, Fannie Mae is foundational to housing finance. Here, your expertise can help fuel purpose-driven innovation that expands access to homeownership and affordable rental housing across the country. Join Fannie Mae to grow your career and help people find a place to call home. As a valued contributor to our team, you will advise the team on processes and methods for building, developing, or designing functionality for a product, as well as create processes and procedures for the ongoing implementation, enhancement, or maintenance of existing products.

Requirements

At least 6 years of relevant experience Product Owner / Product Manager experience in Agile delivery environments, including backlog ownership, sprint planning, story writing, prioritization, and acceptance criteria.
At least 6 years of relevant business and data analysis experience.
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
Strong written and verbal English communication skills, including the ability to explain complex business, system, data, and operational concepts clearly to business and technology stakeholders.
Advanced business analysis skills, including elicitation, requirements decomposition, stakeholder interviews, workshop facilitation, traceability, gap analysis, and impact assessment.
Proven experience converting business needs into clear, detailed functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, features, epics, and development specifications.
Experience documenting business processes, operational procedures, process flows, system flows, data flows, and system state / lifecycle diagrams.
Experience working with cross-functional teams, including business SMEs, technology leads, architects, developers, testers, data analysts, operations, risk, compliance, and change management partners.
Strong experience using Jira and Confluence or equivalent Agile/product documentation tools
Shows curiosity and adaptability in learning and responsibly applying new technologies, including artificial intelligence, to reimagine how we work.

Nice To Haves

10+ years of relevant business and data analysis experience.
7+ years of Product Owner / Product Manager experience in Agile delivery environments, including backlog ownership, sprint planning, story writing, prioritization, and acceptance criteria.
Experience in mortgage finance, housing finance, financial services, multifamily, or single-family business domains.
Experience supporting change management, training materials, adoption planning, communications, and operational readiness.
Knowledge of Fannie Mae Multifamily Data

Responsibilities

Serve as a Product Owner responsible for advanced analysis, product definition, requirements documentation, and delivery execution.
Lead discovery sessions with business, operations, technology, risk, and data stakeholders to identify user needs, pain points, business rules, system impacts, and product opportunities.
Define, refine, and maintain the PI plan in alignment with business objectives, customer outcomes, compliance expectations, and technology strategy.
Write detailed features, user stories, acceptance criteria, development specifications, data requirements, process requirements, and implementation notes for engineering and testing teams.
Lead and document Lean Business Case (LBC) in Fannie Mae format, including business context, detailed requirements, data needs, system behavior, controls, dependencies, assumptions, risks, and traceability.
Create and document current-state and future-state process flows, decision flows, system interaction flows, data movement flows, and system state transition diagrams.
Monitor product performance, gather stakeholder feedback, identify improvement opportunities, and drive continuous product enhancement.