Product Owner

Motion Recruitment; Des Moines (IA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefit package

Long-term contract opportunity

Hybrid work schedule

Job summary

A well-known Financial Services Company is seeking a Product Owner for a long-term contract role in Des Moines, IA, or Charlotte, NC, with a hybrid work schedule. This position involves collaborating with various stakeholders, facilitating requirement sessions, and writing user stories. Ideal candidates will have over 4 years of product management experience and a solid background in Agile methodologies. The role offers an opportunity to work within a reputable organization that values customer satisfaction and financial solutions.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years of experience in product management or as a product owner.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment is necessary.
• Proven ability to write user stories and facilitate their refinement.

Responsibilities

• Support the Product Owner in documenting current application/platform state.
• Engage with stakeholders to facilitate requirement sessions.
• Write and refine user stories for the development team.

Skills

Product management

Agile/Scrum experience

User story writing

Job description

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Product Owner in Des Moines, IA OR Charlotte, NC (hybrid schedule).

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.

Duration: 24 months

Desired Skills & Experience:

• 4+ years of product management/owner experience
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Experience writing user stories and user story refinement.

What You Will Be Doing

• Support the Product Owner to document application/platform current state, define use cases, and conduct analysis.
  • Business processes
  • Data mapping
  • Known gaps - in tech solution or business process
• Apply critical thinking and thought leadership on problem solution design.
• Engage appropriate product and business stakeholders.
• Facilitate/participate in new work requirement sessions with Product Owner and stakeholders and collaborate with SMEs to provide business knowledge.
• Participate in feature refinement sessions along with the Product Owner to identify dependencies.
• Write user stories with guidance and support from the Product Owner. Ensure the Definition of Ready (DoR) is met for each user story.
• Support control related activities/requests for audit evidence.
• Facilitate frequent collaboration between customers, stakeholders, and teams throughout the product lifecycle.
• Raise awareness to the Product Owner for unplanned work (sprint disruptions) and identify potential trade-offs.
• Partner with UAT team to identify business testing strategy/approach and share use cases; help engage end users in UAT activities, as needed. At times, perform lightweight UAT testing to augment UAT testing team capacity if not available.
• Facilitate/participate in user story refinement session(s) ensuring a backlog depth of two sprints; proactively identify and elevate issues.
• Document use cases/scenarios which can be used in requirements/design and business testing/UAT.
• Assist with UAT and data governance coordination.
• Represent scrum team in Production triage meetings, researching issues/defects as needed. Act as point of contact for defects.
• Assist with Sprint Planning by reviewing the current sprint, identifying carryover items and prioritizing items for the upcoming sprint.