Senior Product Owner

Alliant Credit Union; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 99,200 - 140,100; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care benefits

401k with employer match

Annual performance bonus

Work from home up to 3 days a week

Paid parental leave

Job summary

A financial institution in Chicago seeks a Senior Product Owner to lead the strategy and development of products enhancing member experience. You will bridge business needs with technical execution, manage the product roadmap, and ensure timely delivery of solutions. This mid-senior level role offers a hybrid work model and extensive benefits including performance bonuses and educational reimbursement.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a Product Owner in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Understanding of financial core technology and operations preferred.
• Ability to develop user stories and manage expectations.
• Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy and development of products to enhance member experience.
• Serve as a liaison between development teams and business partners.
• Manage product roadmap and ensure timely delivery of solutions.

Skills

Product ownership

Agile/Scrum methodologies

Stakeholder communication

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelors Degree in Marketing, Business, E-Commerce, technology or related

Job description

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As a Senior Product Owner, in this hybrid role, you will lead the strategy, development, and continuous improvement of products and services that elevate Alliant’s member experience and drive business outcomes. You will bridge business strategy, user needs, and technical execution—owning the product roadmap and ensuring timely delivery of high-value solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop user stories and acceptance criteria for feature enhancements, serving as the liaison between development teams and business partners.
• Translate and communicate partner requirements into stories and present requirements to the development team. Create and maintain clear acceptance criteria for user stories.
• Lead sprint work for the development team and provide final approval of work.
• Participate in meetings, reviews, and retrospectives. Participate in testing for quality assurance and user acceptance.
• Maintain a current, relevant understanding of platform technologies, including current features and long-term partner roadmaps.
• Develop and maintain a banking roadmap to ensure the credit union remains stable, secure, and well-leveraged, and positioned to meet strategic needs.
• Communicate with internal stakeholders on enhancement and fix requests, managing expectations and timelines.
• Understand the enterprise business processes built upon assigned platforms inside and out.
• Partner with other teams to ensure solution design aligns with requirements around technical architecture, performance, maintainability, and security.
• Manage assigned banking commitments in SAFe, create comprehensive program increment plans, and represent assigned banking in PI Planning activities.
• Drive projects and general progress toward the completion of requirements and implementation.
• Navigate solution delivery efforts through established Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) processes.
• Monitor threats, risks and opportunities that might affect the success of projects.

Education

• Bachelors Degree - Marketing, Business, E-Commerce, technology or Related - Minimum

Experience

• 3 Years - Product owner, agile/scrum software, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or related - Minimum
• 2 Years - The financial core technology, operations, lending, finance, member service or related - Preferred

In Lieu Of Education

• 6 Years - Product owner, agile/scrum software, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or related

Compensation & Benefits

• Typical hiring range: $99,200 - $140,100 Annually. Actual compensation will be determined using factors such as experience, skills & knowledge.
• Additional Compensation: Annual performance bonus
• Benefits: Alliant provides a benefits package including health care, vision, dental, and 401k with employer match.
• Additional Benefits: Work from home up to 3 days a week
• Paid parental leave
• Employee discount programs
• Time off including paid personal and sick days
• 11 paid holidays
• Education reimbursement
• Note that eligibility and cost of benefits can vary depending on the number of regularly scheduled hours, and job status such as regular full-time, regular part-time, or temporary employment.

Adhere to and ensure compliance of all business transactions with policy and process of the Bank Secrecy Act. Ensures compliance with all applicable state and federal laws, company procedures and policies. Maintains integrity and ethics in all actions and conversations with or regarding credit union members and their accounts; complies with Privacy Act directives.

The responsibilities listed do not contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this position. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Product Management and Marketing