Data Product Owner - Agile Data & Analytics Lead

Motion Recruitment; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is assisting a well-known Financial Services Company in Charlotte, NC, to hire an Agile Product Owner with extensive data product experience. This hybrid role supports a long-term contract and requires strong product ownership and data governance skills.

The candidate will translate business needs into clear features and backlog priorities, collaborate with stakeholders across business, technology, risk, and analytics, and lead delivery teams through SDLC governance and risk

Qualifications

• 5+ years of digital product management, product ownership, Agile delivery, data product management, business analysis, data management, or equivalent experience.
• Experience serving as a Product Owner or similar role supporting Agile delivery teams.
• Experience with data management, governance, quality, metadata, lineage, integration, reporting, analytics, or enterprise data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the business authority for a defined data product area, including defining, documenting, and prioritizing software requirements.
• Develop, evolve, and communicate the product area vision, priorities, goals, and strategy with key partners.
• Partner with Product Management on the overall product strategy, roadmap alignment, and backlog prioritization.
• Establish and monitor product area goals, performance indicators, and value measures.
• Own prioritization of the product area backlog aligned to vision and stakeholder needs.
• Ensure all known work is added to the backlog and made transparent across delivery, discovery, governance, and risk work.

Skills

Agile product ownership

Data product management

Stakeholder management

Backlog prioritization

User story refinement

Jira & Confluence

Regulatory compliance awareness

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Motion Recruitment is assisting a well-known Financial Services Company in Charlotte, NC, to hire an Agile Product Owner with extensive data product experience. This hybrid role supports a long-term contract and requires strong product ownership and data governance skills.

The candidate will translate business needs into clear features and backlog priorities, collaborate with stakeholders across business, technology, risk, and analytics, and lead delivery teams through SDLC governance and risk