Product Owner

Newt Global; Irving (TX); Presencial; USD 90.000 - 150.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Newt Global is seeking a Product Owner focused on Risk Management with AI experience to drive the product vision and prioritize work across Scrum teams. You will own the backlog, refine requirements with stakeholders, and shape the roadmap to maximize business value.

You will lead functional design, collaborate with technology teams for estimation, and participate in testing and release activities to ensure successful delivery. Strong risk knowledge is essential.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with customer-centric mindset to focus on client needs.
• 7 years in agile culture with 5 years as lead Product Owner in banking domain.
• Ability to prioritise items maximizing business value with multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong problem solving and decision making.
• Analytical skills to synthesize findings.
• Proven track record delivering products within deadlines.
• Experience facilitating collaborative sessions and aligning with enterprise goals.
• Expertise with Atlassian MS Teams or similar agile tooling.
• Advanced Product Owner certifications.

Responsabilidades

• Own the product value stream vision and align teams to strategic outcomes.
• Inspire teams to deliver against goals.
• Lead functional design and create product roadmap based on user and tech knowledge.
• Refine priorities, milestones, deliverables, and risks in agile environment.
• Create features and backlog prioritized to maximize business value.
• Facilitate backlog decomposition and define acceptance criteria for sprints.
• Partner with tech to break down large stories and enable estimation.
• Participate in testing and release support processes.
• Accept work before release to production.
• Track post-launch performance and inform future investments.
• Develop feedback loops and use OKRs to align team efforts.
• Represent Product in Scrum events and align with vision.
• Demonstrate strong risk domain understanding, preferably operational risk.

Conocimientos

Agile leadership

Stakeholder management

Product ownership

Communication skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Risk domain knowledge

OKRs culture

TDD/BDD knowledge

Banking domain knowledge

Educación

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Advanced Product Owner certification

Herramientas

Atlassian Suite (Jira)

MS Teams

Descripción del empleo

Product Owner RISK Management and some AI experience

Own the product value stream vision which will be the north star for driving strategic outcomes for the Scrum Teams supported

Inspire the team to deliver upon the goals

Lead the product functional design process and create the product roadmap based on an intimate knowledge of the users and technology

Work in an agile environment by continuously reviewing the business needs refining priorities outlining milestones and deliverables and identifying opportunities and risks

Create features and functionalities which enable achieving business goals by collaborating with stakeholders

Create and own the product backlog prioritizing features which enable maximizing the business value

Facilitate backlog decomposition sessions with the technology teams to clearly define requirements from a user perspective inclusive of acceptance criteria breaking down large stories for the team to consume in one sprint

Partner with the technology team to break down large stories based on estimation

Participate in the testing review sessions and provide support for release

Accept work completed by the team prior to release to production

Track and report product performance postlaunch to evaluate request future investment

Create strong feedback loops by leading the agile events seeking continuous feedback from stakeholders and incorporate in the backlog to achieve the desired outcomes

Develop the culture of using OKRs to ensure team members align on the purpose of the work and cascade feedback related to risk and dependencies

Participate in Scrum events representing the Product and alignment with the Product Manager vision

Strong understanding of Risk domain preferably Operational Risk

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or equivalent with customer centric mindset to focus on client needs
• 7 years working in agile culture with 5 years of relevant experience working as a lead Product Owner for a program preferably in banking domain
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize the items that maximize business value while receiving requests from multiple stakeholders at the same times
• Possess excellent communication skills with the ability to engage stakeholders and team members to drive collaboration and alignment
• Excellent problem solving and decisionmaking skills
• In depth analytical skills with the ability to synthesize findings
• Successful track record of developing products within deadlines and commitments
• Demonstrated experience facilitating collaborative sessions managing customer expectations and ensuring work is aligned with the enterprise goals and objectives
• Expertise with agile tools suites including Atlassian MS Teams or similar agile management tooling
• Experience with agile testing and technical engineering techniques TDD BDD tools a plus
• Advanced Product Owner certifications

Preferred Qualifications

• A passion for learning and a desire for personal growth through selfstudy formal classes or onthejob training
• Be an active leader in the product owner community and be a mentor for the team level PO to build the skills through knowledge sharing sessions and on job support