Senior Banking Product Owner, Agile & Data-Driven

USAA Life Insurance Company; Plano (TX); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

USAA Life Insurance Company in Plano, TX seeks a Bank Agile Product Owner Senior to lead the bank agile team, prioritize the backlog, and ensure the voice of the customer guides decisions. You will drive business outcomes, maintain transparency, and align work with strategic OKRs.

You'll coach cross-functional teams, implement agile policies, and champion data-driven prioritization while ensuring compliance and risk controls across initiatives.

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of Agile delivery and SAFe.
• Experience analyzing requirements and improving processes.
• Ability to weigh funding and resource needs with data.

Responsibilities

• Lead an agile team(s) assigned to developing solutions for implementing the Bank's business objectives aligned to the department and company strategy.
• Responsible for creating and implementing policies and processes for delivering agile methodologies that will meet business results and are aligned to strategic business objectives and required outcomes.
• Accountable for Team-of-Teams level OKRs and team-level OKRs; empowers teams within the Bank to deliver business outcomes against their OKRs.
• Manage project assignments and prioritization of work for Agile teams. Oversees deliverables to ensure they are progressing in a timely manner and are aligned to objectives.
• Makes data driven decisions related to funding and resource allocation.
• Lead positive team dynamics, encourages collaboration and drives achievement of goals and OKRs.
• Ensure risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.
• Coordinate, coach, support and guide leaders and teams in Agile principles, values and practices.
• Maintains stakeholders informed of project status to include Senior Leaders.
• Builds consensus with alliances across the organization.
• Share information about the portfolio's output and direction with other Team of Team Leads and stakeholders to ensure alignment across the organization.
• Build and oversees a team dedicated to excellence through recruiting, developing, retaining, coaching, guiding, performance management and managerial activities.

Skills

Agile methodologies

SAFe

Data-driven decision making

Stakeholder management

Process improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Quavo

Analytics platforms

Job description

USAA Life Insurance Company in Plano, TX seeks a Bank Agile Product Owner Senior to lead the bank agile team, prioritize the backlog, and ensure the voice of the customer guides decisions. You will drive business outcomes, maintain transparency, and align work with strategic OKRs.

You'll coach cross-functional teams, implement agile policies, and champion data-driven prioritization while ensuring compliance and risk controls across initiatives.