Senior Product Owner

CliftonLarsonAllen LLP; Charlotte (NC); Vor Ort; USD 110.000 - 170.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Health insurance

401(k)

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Career growth opportunities

Zusammenfassung

CliftonLarsonAllen LLP in Charlotte, NC is seeking an experienced Product Manager to shape the vision, strategy, and roadmap for a defined product area. You’ll partner with business and technology stakeholders to translate discovery into actionable backlog items and measurable outcomes.

You’ll lead Agile ceremonies, prioritize backlog with MoSCoW, Value-Effort, and RICE, and ensure delivery from requirements through production release. Strong analytical and communication skills are essential.

Qualifikationen

• Four years of relevant experience.
• Bachelor's degree required.
• Certifications like CPO/SAFe-PO/PM preferred.

Aufgaben

• Partner with product leadership to shape vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Lead discovery to validate user problems and identify opportunities.
• Translate insights into backlog items with acceptance criteria and dependencies.
• Coordinate with engineering for viable technical solutions and platform alignment.
• Own delivery from requirements to production release and post-launch enhancements.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies and manage cross-team risks and dependencies.
• Communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs to stakeholders.

Kenntnisse

Product management

Agile / SAFe

Systems thinking

Stakeholder alignment

Analytics

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree

Related field preferred

Tools

MoSCoW

Value-Effort

RICE

Kano

Scrum

SAFe

Design Thinking

APIs

Jobbeschreibung

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Continuous Discovery partner with product leadership and business stakeholders to help shape the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the assigned product area.
• Lead qualitative and quantitative research to validate user problems and identify opportunities within the defined scope.
• Translate discovery insights into hypotheses and actionable backlog items with confirmed feasibility and alignment to desired outcomes.
• Clearly communicate priorities, findings, and progress to maintain alignment across stakeholders.

Requirements and Backlog Management

• Develop product requirements documents, process flows, and prototypes that define user needs, business goals, and functional and non-functional requirements.
• Own and prioritize the backlog using methods such as MoSCoW, Value-Effort analysis, and RICE.
• Balance time to market, scalability, technical debt, and stakeholder priorities.
• Translate the product vision into epics, features, and user stories with clear acceptance criteria, dependencies, and compliance considerations.
• Gather feedback and behavioural data to refine backlog items and ensure they meet the Definition of Ready and Definition of Done.
• Coordinate with product leadership on cross-team risks and dependencies.

Technical and Solution Alignment

• Collaborate with engineering and architecture teams to ensure requirements translate into viable technical solutions aligned with platform patterns.
• Evaluate technical trade-offs and provide input concerning scalability, extensibility, auditability, and integration approaches.
• Anticipate downstream needs, including data structures, validation logic, audit trails, and reusable components.

Continuous Delivery and Execution

• Own delivery execution for the assigned product area, from validated requirements through production release and post-launch enhancements.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including PI Planning, sprint planning, demonstrations, and retrospectives.
• Define delivery milestones and success criteria in partnership with Scrum Masters, Release Train Engineers, and program or project managers.
• Monitor progress, remove impediments, and ensure delivery aligns with objectives and key results, quality standards, and timelines.

Stakeholder Collaboration and Cross-Functional Influence

• Serve as the primary product interface for business owners, technology partners, end users, and delivery teams.
• Manage conflicting priorities using structured rationale, data insights, and outcome-focused communication.
• Communicate progress, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs transparently, escalating concerns when necessary.
• Promote agility, experimentation, continuous learning, and systems thinking throughout the product area.

Performance Optimization and Improvement

• Define and analyze product performance against key performance indicators to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Prioritise improvements to the user experience, workflow quality, system performance, and business outcomes.
• Drive post-launch enhancements using continuous learning to inform the product roadmap and operational processes.

What You Will Need

• Experience Four years of relevant experience required.
• Education Bachelor's degree required.
• A combination of relevant experience, education, and training may be accepted in place of a degree.
• Degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field preferred.
• Certifications and Licenses No certifications are required. Certified Scrum Product Owner or SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager certification preferred.
• Technical Competencies Systems thinking with the ability to integrate business, technical, and user requirements across enterprise systems.
• Technical fluency in software engineering, APIs, data integration, and enterprise architecture.
• Experience using prioritization frameworks such as MoSCoW, Value-Effort, RICE, or Kano.
• Knowledge of user-centered design principles, Design Thinking, and user research.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to use qualitative and quantitative data to guide decisions and evaluate product performance.
• Experience leading discovery and delivery through Agile practices such as Scrum, Lean, or SAFe.
• Ability to align cross-functional teams and deliver complex integrations with measurable outcomes.

Additional Information

This position requires less than 10% travel.

Personality and Culture at CLA

CLA focuses on their physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being and offers comprehensive benefit options that include health, dental, vision, 401k and much more.

When you join CLA, you’ll have the opportunity to design your own inspired career. Career growth is about having new experiences and lots of exposure to different roles that stretch your comfort zone, expand your skills, and shape you as a leader. It’s not so much about climbing a ladder or acquiring new titles, it’s the discovery of your strengths and the outer reaches of your true potential. At CLA, you have the freedom to explore many opportunities, including your choice of industry specialization, service capability, career path, and mobility.

About CLA: CLA exists to create opportunities for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. With nearly 9,000 people, more than 120 locations, and a global vision, we promise to know you and help you. For more information visit our website.

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