Product Owner

Stifel•St. Louis, MO

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Product Owner (PO) is a member of an Agile Development Team who speaks for the client/end user. The Product Owner is responsible for guiding the team to create and deliver software applications that meet client, business, and firm goals by breaking down and defining small workable tasks (user stories) and prioritizing the team backlog to streamline the execution of priorities. The PO creates and maintains stories, and prioritizes work for new or revised features or enhancements. The PO has a significant role in quality control and is the team member empowered to accept stories as done. The Product Owner position has significant relationships and responsibilities outside of the agile team, including working closely with Product Management, customers, business owners, outside partners, and other stakeholders. The PO is cognizant, transparent, and proactive in managing dependencies across multiple teams and disciplines.

Requirements

Strong analytical, organizational, management, negotiation, and people skills.
Strong decision making & analytical skills.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences of various levels in the organization (e.g., executive, management, team members, individual contributors).
Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, flexibility and adaptability to change, decision-making and critical thinking skills.
Experience with Kanban, the Scaled Agile Framework, Agile, or Scrum processes.
Ability to understand evolving technologies and relate to current business demands.
Ability to build collaborative relationships across various levels in the organization (e.g., executive, management, team members, individual contributors).
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Project Management, Business Administration or related field; or equivalent experience work experience in business or technology.
5-7 years' experience of wealth management, technology, business analysis, project management, or related study.
Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook.
Understands concepts related to relational databases.

Nice To Haves

Series 7 and 66 or 63 licensed preferred but not required.
Ability to created SQL queries preferred, but not required.

Responsibilities

Facilitate story creation and refinement with the team ensuring stories adhere to the Agile INVEST model.
Collaborate with product management, leadership, and technical teams to analyze the Firm needs to implement high quality solutions.
Articulate and communicate project vision and user stories in a manner clearly understandable to development teams so the team understands target objectives.
Prioritizes both in flight and backlog work.
Sets Sprint goals.
Monitor the team development progress and provides updates to leadership, product management, and stakeholders, as requested.
Maintains availability and a presence on the team to address day-to-day business level decisions and blockers.
Apply Agile methods and processes to promote a disciplined methodology that encourages frequent inspection and adaptation of ongoing work.
Lead regular demonstration and review meetings to communicate feedback on development achievements.
Partner with agile scrum master, other technology teams, and stakeholders to test and deliver features in the team backlog.
Responsible for signing off that the story (work) is complete.
Ensure that development work maximizes value and is aligned with overall firm strategy.