Agile Product Owner

Mindlance; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services firm in Charlotte is seeking a Product Owner with at least 3 years of relevant experience to design new products and improve existing services. The ideal candidate should have strong product management skills and experience in digital initiatives. Responsibilities include collaborating with stakeholders, leading backlog management, and participating in scrum ceremonies. A Bachelor's degree is required. Join a dynamic team to enhance user experiences and deliver impactful solutions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of banking, financial services, or relevant work experience.
• 5+ years of product, analysis, technology, or design experience.
• Experience in delivering digital business initiatives.
• Experience working with distributed teams (onshore/offshore).

Responsibilities

• Design new products and improve existing capabilities.
• Lead user story writing and maintain the team's backlog.
• Collaborate with Product Management to understand customer needs.
• Participate in scrum ceremonies and prioritize the backlog.
• Collaborate with Product Management to gain insights into customer needs.
• Understand customer persona and their needs and expectations.
• Ensure the team understands the vision and roadmap during PI Planning.
• Continually prioritize the scrum team's backlog.
• Accept user stories after validating acceptance criteria and Definition of Done.
• Assist with resolving requirement-level dependencies with other teams.
• Resolve conflicting requirements with Product Managers and Product Owners.
• Apply systems thinking to align with the solution roadmap.
• Risk management: ensure PML processes are followed, support security, risk, audit, etc.

Skills

Banking experience

Product management

Digital business initiatives

Working with distributed teams

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Bachelor Degree: (Required, Preferred or Not Required)

• Required.

Role Responsibilities: (what they will be doing)

• Deliver new experiences by working directly with delivery, experience design, business, operations partners, and other stakeholders to design new products and improvements to existing capabilities.
• Lead the writing and refining of user stories.
• Author and maintain the team’s backlog of features and user stories and serve as a subject matter expert on features, user stories, and product capabilities.
• Participate in all scrum ceremonies such as Daily Stand Up, Backlog Refinement, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, etc.
• Collaborate with Product Management to gain insights into customer needs.
• Understand the customer persona and deeply understand their needs and expectations.
• Ensure the team has a clear understanding of the vision and roadmap during PI Planning.
• Continually prioritize the scrum team's backlog.
• Accept user stories after validating the acceptance criteria and Definition of Done (DoD).
• Assist the team in resolving requirement‑level dependencies with other teams.
• Actively resolve conflicting requirements and ambiguities by collaborating with Product Managers and other Product Owners.
• Apply systems thinking to ensure alignment with the solution roadmap.
• Risk management: Ensure all Product Management Lifecycle (PML) process & procedures are followed, supporting security, risk, audit, and more, and ensure action items and deadlines are met. Partner with product manager on evidence to support recommendations.

Must Have Skills/Prior Experiences: (Vendor should not submit any candidate that does not have these skills/prior experience.)

• 3+ years of banking, financial services, digital, or other relevant work experience
• 5+ years of product, analysis, technology, and/or design experience
• Experience defining and delivering digital business initiatives to execute on a product roadmap
• Experience working with distributed teams (onshore/offshore)

EEO

“Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.”