Digital Product Owner (DPO)

Pyramid Consulting, Inc; San Antonio (TX); Remote; USD 61,992 - 68,880; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance (medical, dental, vision)

401(k) plan

Paid sick leave

Job summary

A leading financial services provider is seeking a Digital Product Owner (DPO) for a 6-month contract in San Antonio, TX (Remote). The role will leverage agile methodologies and manage a cross-functional team to ensure successful product delivery. Candidates should have expertise in native mobile applications and Jira. This opportunity includes competitive pay, health insurance, and other benefits.

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of Agile software delivery (SAFe preferred) - 2 years.
• Experience writing and prioritizing agile stories and features - 4 years.
• Solid understanding of native iOS and Android platform conventions - 2 years.

Responsibilities

• Utilizes a proficient understanding of customer needs to prioritize investment.
• Serves as the business requirements expert, engaging the work of specialists.
• Leads, manages, or orchestrates activities for completion and proper documentation.
• Works with different technologies and vendor partnerships.
• Prepares the business for change and arms them with tactics for benefits and risks.

Skills

Product Owner

Native Mobile Applications

Design System

Agile

Jira

Tools

Jira

Service-Now

Gitlab

Job description

Pyramid Consulting, Inc provided pay range

This range is provided by Pyramid Consulting, Inc. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$45.00/hr - $50.00/hr

Immediate need for a talented Digital Product Owner (DPO). This is a 06 months contract opportunity with long‑term potential and is located in San Antonio, TX (Remote). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID: 25-90740

Pay Range: $45 - $50/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• Utilizes a proficient understanding of customer needs, as well as business vision and strategy, to prioritize investment, business value, and delivery.
• Serves as the business requirements expert, engaging and managing the work of subject matter specialists from the business.
• Serves as the day‑to‑day decision maker and provides continual business guidance for the execution team.
• Prioritizes the execution team's work so that it aligns with the sponsor's/business executive's strategies.
• Leads, manages, or orchestrates activities for completion and proper documentation of business requirements and validating metrics as appropriate for methodology and Enterprise controls.
• Works with the business and IT delivery teams to identify and mitigate risks to include business operational risks. Escalates issues, develops, and recommends appropriate solutions.
• Works with different technologies (infrastructure, mobile, MSR-facing), and/or with vendor partnerships or software.
• Serves as a subject matter resource in a particular business or system domain, as necessary. Identifies, engages, and influences business stakeholders and Subject Matter Experts.
• Serves as direct representative of the business with delivery teams, representing/reinforcing the customers' perspective throughout the product realization cycle.
• Works with the business process owners to develop metrics to manage and track benefits, adoption, and risks to operations.
• Assists with project‑level plans related to schedule, scope, and resources. Leads, collaborates with, and motivates a cross‑functional team of user experience partners, designers, business analysts, developers, testers, and others to develop, execute, and release in alignment with program and/or product roadmaps.
• Manages, prioritizes, and assesses the impact of all work items, such as new features, defects, etc., including providing the decision to create, fix, or defer at the project level.
• Reviews, and when appropriate, accepts and prioritizes feedback and new requirements from stakeholders.
• Reviews and accepts or declines output of development to ensure specified acceptance criteria have been completed.
• Prepares the business for the change and arms them with tactics and metrics for benefits, adoption, and risk.
• Assists with coaching less experienced DPOs and team members
• Create/refine user stories/bugs in JIRA
• Utilize JIRA Boards as well as create personal JIRA dashboards & filters to organize and facilitate managing the backlog
• Stay on top of story status progression throughout the sprint via JIRA and also monitor story communication via Outlook (JIRA Tags)
• Lead backlog grooming session, navigating, and updating story descriptions, Acceptance Criteria, & estimates directly from JIRA
• Track release progress and sign off on acceptance through Client/Gitlab

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• Key Skills; Product Owner, Native Mobile Applications, Design System, Agile, Jira
• Advanced knowledge of Agile software delivery (SAFe preferred) - 2 years
• Experience writing and prioritizing agile stories and features - 4 years
• Solid understanding of native iOS and Android platform conventions - 2 years
• Mid-level Product Owner
• Experience with Native Mobile Apps
• Jira, Service-Now (Release management), Gitlab

Our client is a leading financial services Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

Pyramid Consulting, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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Seniority level: Not Applicable

Employment type: Contract

Job function: Information Technology