Product Owner: Retirement & Government Savings

Ascensus; Fargo (ND); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascensus is seeking a Product Owner to lead the roadmap and execution for Retirement and Government Savings programs. You’ll work within an Agile team to define stories, prioritize the backlog, and ensure delivery aligns with business value and ROI.

You will partner with customers and internal teams, translating visions into epics and user stories, guiding sprint planning, and ensuring quality through UAT testing and regular reviews.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in business or technology related fields.
• Advanced with Microsoft Office applications and a strong working knowledge of Agile and SDLC methodologies.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in the assigned business domain: 401(k), IRA, 529, etc.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience as a Product Owner, or a Technology (Dev or QA) practice.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and executing Agile principles with strong technical skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment; high quality of work that adheres to all standards, regulatory and audit requirements.
• Strong consultative and well-articulated communication and writing skills with the ability to interact and influence at all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated experience with facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, change management, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and executing Agile principles with strong technical skills.
• Naturally curious, detail oriented, with strong analytic, and research skills.
• Knowledge and/or experience with Confluence, JIRA, Azure DevOps, and Aha!.

Responsibilities

• Creates and maintains the Scrum Team Roadmap.
• Prioritizes and sequences the Backlog according to business value or ROI.
• Conveys the Vision and Goals at the beginning of every Release and Sprint.
• Represents the customer, interfaces and engages the customer.
• Collaborating with a Scrum team on new Feature development, requests including building and maintaining a Product backlog, contributing to/reviewing/approving user stories, sprint support, and UAT testing.
• Where appropriate, works closely with BAs and Technology to create Behaviors Driven Development (BDD) stories.
• Assists with elaboration of Epics, Themes and Features into user stories that are granular enough to be achieved in a single sprint.
• Participates in the daily Scrums, Sprint Planning Meetings, ReleasePlanning, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.
• Inspects the product progress at the end of every Sprint and has complete authority to accept or reject work done.
• Maintains relationships with the business and the client to understand the current and changing needs.
• Actively involved in Organizational readiness activities.
• Primary point person internally and externally for the team for updates and feedback.
• Identify and maintain the KPIs need to support the team and assigned product.
• Establish annual goals, objectives and outcomes for product(s); Track and monitor key performance indicators.

Skills

Agile

SDLC

Microsoft Office

Confluence

JIRA

Azure DevOps

Aha!

Communication

Facilitation

Stakeholder management

Education

Undergraduate degree in business or technology related fields

Tools

Confluence

JIRA

Azure DevOps

Aha!

Job description

Ascensus is seeking a Product Owner to lead the roadmap and execution for Retirement and Government Savings programs. You’ll work within an Agile team to define stories, prioritize the backlog, and ensure delivery aligns with business value and ROI.

You will partner with customers and internal teams, translating visions into epics and user stories, guiding sprint planning, and ensuring quality through UAT testing and regular reviews.