Product Owner - Remote

Donnelley Financial, LLC; Rockville (MD); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading financial services company as a Product Owner, where you will drive the development of a virtual dataroom application. This role requires a customer-centric approach, strong analytical skills, and collaboration with various teams to ensure product success. Enjoy a competitive salary, flexible workplace, and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Flexible workplace

Comprehensive benefits

Opportunities for professional growth

Qualifications

• 8+ years' workforce experience, including 3+ years in financial services.
• Experience with Agile methodology is a plus.
• Familiarity with M&A deals and virtual datarooms is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Lead the elicitation of requirements through various analysis techniques.
• Write clear user stories and acceptance criteria adhering to Agile.
• Facilitate User Acceptance Testing to validate user stories.

Skills

Analytical skills

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Communication

Detail-oriented

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Microsoft Visio

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Outlook

Job description

Description:

Join a dynamic team at the pulse of global markets, where we deliver innovative software and service solutions for essential financial reporting and capital markets transactions. At DFIN, we are a values-driven organization that empowers you to build a fulfilling career while bringing your authentic self to work every day.Our "Win as One" mentality ensures that our team's success is directly linked to Client, Shareholder and Employee Satisfaction.

Recognized by Newsweek as one of AMERICA'S MOST LOVED WORKPLACES for three consecutive years and a Built In Best Places to Work for six years, we are committed to our employees' total wellbeing. Enjoy competitive compensation, a flexible workplace, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional growth. Bring your passion and talents to DFIN - because being YOU thrives here.

Summary:

As a key member of the Product Management Team, the Product Owner is responsible for gathering and eliciting product requirements, writing user stories, and helping to drive the iterative development of DFIN's virtual dataroom application. The ideal candidate will have a customer/user-centric approach to analysis, have strong analytical skills, an eagerness to collaborate with different teams, and a clear understanding of the software development life cycle.

Responsibilities:

* Lead the elicitation of requirements using customer interviews, document and data analysis, business case descriptions, use cases, scenarios, and/or workflow analysis.

* Responsible for writing clear and concise user stories and acceptance criteria in adherence of Agile methodology that clearly captures what our customers want and help engineering bring them to life in software.

* Perform and facilitate User Acceptance Testing to validate if user stories meet the Definition of Done and accept stories as 'Done'.

* Working as Product Owner with an Agile Team

* Work with the Product Analyst and Managers to plan the release of new features and gather metrics to demonstrate impacts to the business and our customers.

* Triage internal and external feedback and work with the product team to prioritize feedback.

* Work with the Product analysts and Managers to prioritize and resolve any issues arising from released products and features.

* Prioritization and management of Product Backlog Items

* Proactively explore data and identify opportunities to improve existing products and features.

* Overseeing multiple project timelines and efforts.

* Collaborate with services and service operations and functions.

Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

* 8+ years' workforce experience and at least 3+ year in financial services as a business analysis, product owner or equivalent experience for technology or Saas companies.

* A clear understanding of the requirements of life cycle (elicitation, analysis, documentation, validation, and management).

* Uses universal problem-solving techniques such as process mapping, 5-Whys, Root Cause Analysis, etc.

* Proficient with Microsoft (Visio, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook).

* Must possess strong written and verbal communication skills, along with strong facilitation, organizational, and collaboration techniques.

* Detail oriented with the ability to communicate findings and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

* Experience with the Agile methodology and associated tools are a plus.

* Financial Services industry experience related to M&A deals, transactional deals, virtual dataroom are a plus

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