Product Owner

Smart IT Frame LLC; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services company is looking for a skilled Product Owner for their Credit Card Digital Banking initiatives in Pittsburgh. This role demands extensive experience in product ownership within the digital banking or fintech sector, specifically in credit card services. Responsibilities include translating business goals into product roadmaps, defining user stories, and ensuring alignment across teams. The position offers a hybrid work model, promoting collaboration in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product ownership experience in digital banking/fintech.
• Strong credit card domain knowledge (lifecycle, rewards, disputes, fraud).
• Ability to write basic SQL queries and understanding of big data.

Responsibilities

• Translate credit-card business goals into clear product roadmaps.
• Define epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Prioritize features based on technical feasibility and business impact.
• Act as the primary liaison across teams to ensure alignment.
• Lead decisions on data mapping and new service design.
• Partner with QA for robust testing.
• Track KPIs and monitor performance.
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders.

Skills

Product ownership experience

Credit card domain knowledge

API-driven platforms

Basic SQL queries

Problem-solving

Excellent communication skills

Job description

Title: Product Owner (Credit Card Digital Banking)

Location: Pittsburgh, PA (Hybrid)

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Overview:

We are seeking a skilled and experienced product owner in credit card. The person must drive an initiative of building and integrating frontend functionalities of online banking with backend canonical data layer. It needs to be a good mix of business knowledge, strategizing technical roadmap, prioritize feature release

Responsibilities:

• Translate credit‑card business goals into clear product roadmaps and multi‑release plans.
• Define epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria aligned to business needs and backend data realities.
• Prioritize features based on technical feasibility, and business impact.
• Act as the primary liaison across engineering, data, API, and platform teams to ensure alignment.
• Lead decisions on data mapping, canonical models, payload structures, and new service design.
• Partner with QA to ensure robust backend + UI test coverage.
• Drive timely delivery across squads and proactively remove dependencies.
• Track KPIs, monitor performance, and validate releases in production.
• Communicate clearly with cross‑functional stakeholders to maintain alignment.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of product ownership experience in digital banking/fintech, with strong credit‑card domain knowledge (lifecycle, rewards, disputes, fraud).
• Skilled in API‑driven platforms, canonical data models, and working across frontend, backend, and data engineering teams.
• Strong problem‑solver with an ownership mindset and excellent communication skills.
• Able to do write basic SQL queries and have understanding of big data