Sr Product Owner
About The Position
The Sr Product Owner is a vital member of the agile team, collaborating with Product Managers or enablement team to define a clear tactical vision for product development or implementation. They focus on end-user experience and maintain clarity for the team to ensure successful delivery or client implementation of new and existing digital capabilities. The Sr. Product owner is aligned to a scrum team and drives the feature backlog. May drive BAU support post enablement, including analysis on reported production issues, including influencing correction; optimize processes in addressing changes to in-market requirement changes.
Requirements
- High School Diploma or GED
- 5+ years in product management, information technology, or related field such as business analysis, with experience in Agile development techniques and managing third-party vendor integration products.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s Degree in Product Management, Business Analysis or Information Technology
- 7+ years Product Management, Business Analysis, Information Technology, financial services, payment, or online and mobile platforms.
Responsibilities
- Influence the digital capabilities roadmap by identifying new features and adding to the backlog.
- Stay updated with industry developments, analyze market data, and use insights for product decisions.
- May participate in client facing discovery sessions.
- Identifies and may lead optimization opportunities, increasing initiative throughput.
- Prioritize and maintain product backlog.
- Lead multiple agile teams while managing relationships with key stakeholders and leadership. This involves presenting product updates, gathering feedback, and ensuring alignment with the overall business strategy.
- Manage activities for business requirements documentation, risk identification, and mitigation.
- Identify and implement process improvements to enhance product development, enablement, and/or BAU support efficiency. This includes streamlining workflows, adopting new tools and methodologies, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- Build partnerships within the Scrum team, ensure stable and operational capabilities, and manage cross-functional team dependencies.
- Build partnerships across enablement and cross-functional teams, maintaining adherence to implementation timelines and standards.
- Continually looking to optimize processes and customer experience.
- Train and mentor Product Owners, this includes offering advice, sharing best practices and helping them develop their skills and knowledge.
- May participate in recruitment and associate engagement efforts.
Benefits
- medical
- prescription drug
- dental
- vision
- other voluntary benefits (including basic and optional life insurance, supplemental medical plans, and short and long-term disability)
- Six weeks of 100% paid parental leave
- 401(k) plan
- 11 paid holidays
- Flexible Time Off (FTO) program
- 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time (“PSST”)
- 40 hours of Illinois PSST
- 40 hours of Illinois Paid Leave
- company stock purchase
- annual incentive bonus
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
High school or GED
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
