Mortgage Tech Product Owner: Agile Backlog & Strategy Lead

Redwood-Trus; Holly Hills (CO); On-site; USD 100,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus program

Health plans

STD/LTD options

Life insurance

Fitness reimbursement

Paid parental leave

Paid time off

ESPP

401K matching

Job summary

Redwood Trust, Inc. is seeking a Product Owner in Englewood, CO to drive backlog management and prioritization, translating business needs into clear user stories for delivery from discovery through testing and launch.

You will work with the VP of Product Management and agile teams to align priorities, refine requirements, and ensure a strong product vision across mortgage-related initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of subject matter experience with residential or commercial mortgage areas.
• 3+ years in a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or Data Analyst role.
• Proven experience owning a backlog in an agile environment.
• Demonstrated ability to develop clear problem statements and translate them into well-written user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders, priorities, and workstreams at once.

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritize the team backlog, ensuring items are well-groomed, clearly defined, and ready for development.
• Translate business needs into clear, well-structured problem statements and write user stories with actionable acceptance criteria.
• Guide the scrum team through sprint planning, backlog refinement, and daily execution by clarifying requirements and unblocking questions in real time.
• Define and maintain product vision, sprint goals, and release plans in partnership with the Product Manager and Scrum Master.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the business to align priorities and ensure the product vision continues to reflect strategic goals.
• Drive agile best practices and continuous improvement across product, analytics, and delivery processes.
• Conduct data analysis to inform product decisions.
• Monitor industry and mortgage-market trends relevant to the product roadmap.
• Elicit requirements through interviews, workshops, document analysis, and other discovery methods, distinguishing what users ask for from the underlying problem they need solved.
• Mediate between business and IT to prioritize competing requirements and establish realistic, reliable delivery schedules.
• Manage multiple concurrent priorities, stakeholders, and deadlines with strong organizational discipline.

Skills

Backlog Management

Agile Delivery

Data Analysis

Requirements Writing

Stakeholder Management

User Story Writing

Communication

Organizational Skills

Learning Agility

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Jira

Microsoft Office

Job description

Redwood Trust, Inc. is seeking a Product Owner in Englewood, CO to drive backlog management and prioritization, translating business needs into clear user stories for delivery from discovery through testing and launch.

You will work with the VP of Product Management and agile teams to align priorities, refine requirements, and ensure a strong product vision across mortgage-related initiatives.