Senior Digital Product Owner: Messaging & Wealth Platforms

Aquent; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Aquent partners with a leading financial services firm to empower individuals to achieve their financial dreams by shaping modern digital messaging experiences across channels. In this Digital Product Owner role, you will drive the roadmap for the messaging platform and ensure delivery aligns with the broader digital strategy.

You will collaborate with product, design, technology, compliance, and business teams to gather requirements, prioritize backlogs, and champion agile practices.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of digital product owner experience.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• Data analytics experience with translating data into actionable insights.
• Strategic problem-solver capable of formulating compelling vision and strategy, then translating it into measurable roadmaps and results.
• Strong knowledge base and experience developing or leading digital platforms, coupled with an understanding of underlying current and emerging technology.
• Ability to influence and build strong relationships across multiple levels of the organization.
• Understanding of Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
• Skilled at working cross-functionally with technology, service, marketing, and product teams to lead the entire lifecycle of a digital platform.

Responsibilities

• Envision the future and build the near-term roadmap for the digital messaging channel and its adoption.
• Support all aspects required to bring new multi-channel digital messages to clients, including gathering requirements, creation, development, and implementation of solutions.
• Define and prioritize the product backlog to deliver on business vision and priorities, ensuring clarity for the development team.
• Ensure customer-driven design, addressing user pain points, market needs, and incorporating usability test results.
• Execute the development process with technical teams, internal partners, and external vendors, from writing business requirements and user stories to conducting user acceptance testing and communicating project status.
• Resolve problems and collaborate with peers, technical teams, and internal clients to provide timely solutions.
• Support sprint and release plans in collaboration with the Scrum Master and participate in retrospectives to continuously improve team processes.
• Champion Agile methodologies, actively participating in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog prioritization, user story preparation, and demos.
• Work cross-functionally with technical, product, design, business, and compliance counterparts to define product release requirements and investigate production issues.
• Create awareness and engagement plans for your capabilities, providing relevant and concise updates to management teams.
• Serve as a subject matter authority and evangelist for your channel/utility to partners across the organization.
• Think "horizontally" to deliver an exceptional and consistent experience for clients across all digital channels.

Skills

Digital product owner

Data analytics

Agile methodologies

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Aquent partners with a leading financial services firm to empower individuals to achieve their financial dreams by shaping modern digital messaging experiences across channels. In this Digital Product Owner role, you will drive the roadmap for the messaging platform and ensure delivery aligns with the broader digital strategy.

You will collaborate with product, design, technology, compliance, and business teams to gather requirements, prioritize backlogs, and champion agile practices.