Product Owner (Pricing)

AgFirst Farm Credit Bank•Columbia, SC

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Product Owner translates established product vision and roadmap priorities into clear, actionable requirements and delivery-ready work for assigned products, services, or business capabilities. The role facilitates requirements development, maintains backlog readiness, supports cross-functional delivery, and aligns business needs, customer expectations, technical considerations, testing, and product-governance requirements. The Product Owner monitors delivery progress, supports release readiness, and promotes quality and continuous improvement throughout the product-development lifecycle. The role executes product roadmaps by turning priorities and business objectives into product features, requirements, user stories, and delivery outcomes. It partners with Product Managers, Product Owners, stakeholders, and subject-matter experts to clarify priorities, scope, expected value, and customer needs. It maintains a refined and prioritized backlog, defines acceptance criteria, identifies dependencies, assesses feasibility and delivery constraints with delivery teams, and maintains alignment between roadmap priorities, commitments, timelines, and changing needs. The Product Owner leads requirements discussions and develops and maintains functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, use cases, process flows, acceptance criteria, and supporting documentation. The role facilitates shared understanding across business, technology, user-experience, and testing stakeholders; coordinates validation of acceptance criteria and test coverage; tracks progress, dependencies, risks, delivery measures, and quality trends; maintains traceability throughout the product-development lifecycle; supports release readiness; and ensures artifacts and practices align with applicable documentation, governance, risk, control, and quality standards. AgFirst Farm Credit Bank provides financing, technology, and other value-added services to association partners so they can lend to rural residents and agricultural operations of all sizes.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in business administration, information technology, information systems, finance, or a related field.
1–3 years of experience in product development, product ownership, business analysis, requirements development, technology delivery, or a related discipline.
Certified Product Owner.
Knowledge of product-development, product-ownership, requirements-development, backlog-management, and iterative-delivery practices.
Ability to translate business and customer needs into clear requirements, user stories, process documentation, acceptance criteria, and delivery-ready work.
Analytical thinking, problem-solving, attention to detail, and ability to identify dependencies, risks, gaps, and improvement opportunities.
Stakeholder communication, facilitation, collaboration, and ability to bridge business and technical perspectives across partner teams.
Knowledge of testing and validation, requirements traceability, release readiness, product governance, delivery measures, and continuous-improvement practices.
Foundational knowledge of data analysis and query concepts.

Responsibilities

Translate established product vision, roadmap priorities, and business objectives into product features, requirements, user stories, and delivery outcomes.
Partner with Product Managers, Product Owners, stakeholders, and subject-matter experts to clarify priorities, scope, expected value, and customer needs.
Refine and prioritize the backlog, define acceptance criteria, identify dependencies, and prepare items for delivery.
Work with delivery teams and technical stakeholders to assess feasibility, capacity, dependencies, risks, and constraints and recommend delivery-plan adjustments.
Maintain alignment among roadmap priorities, backlog commitments, delivery timelines, and evolving business or customer needs.
Lead requirements discussions and gather, analyze, clarify, and document detailed business and product needs.
Develop and maintain functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, use cases, process flows, acceptance criteria, and other delivery documentation.
Facilitate communication among business, technology, user-experience, testing, and other stakeholders to create shared understanding of requirements, priorities, and outcomes.
Partner with technical and user-experience stakeholders to confirm proposed solutions are feasible, usable, aligned with business objectives, and responsive to customer needs.
Coordinate with testing partners to validate acceptance criteria and test coverage and ensure delivered functionality aligns with requirements and business intent.
Participate in product planning, backlog refinement, delivery reviews, and other team activities to clarify requirements and maintain delivery alignment.
Monitor delivery progress, dependencies, risks, delivery measures, and quality trends and recommend improvements to planning and execution.
Maintain traceability among business needs, requirements, development work, acceptance criteria, testing, decisions, and delivered functionality.
Support release readiness by coordinating requirements, testing, documentation, stakeholder communication, implementation activities, and other applicable expectations.
Ensure product artifacts and delivery practices align with applicable documentation, governance, risk, control, and quality standards.
Use feedback and delivery results to support continuous improvement.