Product Owner

Discover; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Discover. A brighter future.

With us, you’ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.

Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.

Job Description:

What You’ll Do

The Product Owner will support Core Application Certification Tools utilized by our Network Partners for testing of their Authorization, Settlement/Interchange and Disputes changes (future).

You will prioritize enhancements to improve Discover Network (DN) and Diners Club International (DCI) partner certification and testing experiences, including improvements to accessibility. You will collaborate with others to develop comprehensive requirements and will ensure projects adhere to Enterprise Change Management policies and best practices. You will verify all in-house and vendor-built and managed certification tools requirements are developed, tested and delivered to Discover quality, performance and efficiency standards.

How You’ll Do It:

• The Product Professional is responsible for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Team.
• Product Professionals are at the center of delivering new products and driving innovation on platforms that improve customer experience, meet customer needs, and create business value while prioritizing "what" the team is working on to deliver value to the customer. The Product Professional is a servant leader and not the manager of team members, has well-rounded job knowledge and helps to coach/mentor others on the team. Structure the work for the team and delegates the work.
• Builds product backlog, prioritizes its items to achieve Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and continuously keeps it up to date. Maintains key product documentation (e.g., customer journey map, technical specs, process mapping, etc.).
• Understand and ensure product features and processes align with applicable Discover regulatory, compliance, and risk management standards. Ensures product adheres to the highest quality standards, including releasing security patches not linked to customers. Articulates requirements (regulatory, contractual) into use cases, agile stories, and acceptance criteria to ensure compliance. Creates and validates user story acceptance criteria. Inspect and evaluate product progress through each iteration.
• Leads Agile practices (sprints, planning, execution, and retros) and holds meetings with the product team to continuously update product backlog.
• Defines functional and non-functional product requirements; ensures completeness; integral and consistent; source of requirements for product team. Creates and validates user story acceptance criteria. Executes appropriate testing frameworks for product features (e.g., market testing, functional performance, etc.) Works with Data stewards in their respective LOBs to ensure required Data quality controls are identified and implemented. Inspect and evaluate product progress through each iteration.
• Partners with business technology to create technical features that are required to continuously optimize system components and underline infrastructure maintenance.
• Manages and communicates scope, deliverables, timelines of projects and/or plans through storyboarding and structuring complex information visually.
• Contributes to the product development and vision by connecting how customer solutions support business goals. Responsible for delivering Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support go-to-market strategies.
• Builds a culture of accountability and ownership by empowering the product team to make decisions as close to the work as possible.
• Partners with vendors and/or cross-functional partners in the evaluation, development, management, monitoring and/or enhancement of assigned products and/or programs.
• Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

Qualifications You’ll Need

The Basics

• Bachelors in Information Technology, Engineering, Business Administration and Management, Finance, Economics, Statistics or related
• Experience in Product Management or Engineering experience in Financial Services or Tech Industry or related
• In lieu of education, Product Management or Engineering experience in Financial Services or Tech Industry or related

Physical and Cognitive Requirements

The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:

• Primarily remain in a stationary position.
• No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.
• Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.
• Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.

Bonus Points If You Have

• Payment Services experience- Authorizations, Settlements/ Interchange, Disputes
• Technical PO/UAT testing experience
• Experience developing and testing APIs
• Agile Certification - Certified Scrum Master or Scrum Product Owner

Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United Kingdom on a full-time basis.

Application Deadline:

The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Apr-26-2025. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.

What are you waiting for? Apply today!

All Discover employees place our customers at the very center of our work. To deliver on our promises to our customers, each of us contributes every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management.

Discover is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status. (Know Your Rights)

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Positions marked as remote eligible are limited to remote locations within the country in which the position is based.

Applicants must be 18 or older at the time of hire.