Job Description
Our client, in the financial services industry is seeking a Product Owner to join their team. The ideal candidate will have experience on consumer-facing experience teams. Someone who has PARTNERED with design teams, engineering teams, UX teams, etc. during the delivery process
This is a contract to hire position (6-12 month contract before converting to full time)
Job Title: Product Owner
Location: Remote (CST Hours)
Pay Range: $110-140K conversion salary
What’s the Job?
- Works as a key team member on a cross functional team, responsible for continuous delivery of value to the customer through compelling and empowering customer experiences.
- Collaborate with Product Manager and stakeholders to ensure work prioritization is aligned with Thrivent’s priorities and overall product roadmap as well as to provide product development feedback and direction.
- Continuously innovates and evolves the product in alignment with strategic priorities. Is responsible for creating, maintaining, and evolving the product roadmap.
- Maintain and refine product backlog: Create user stories and acceptance criteria and prioritize all stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum business value that align with product strategy.
- Ensure stories clearly communicate the customer and stakeholder needs to meet key business objectives and strategies for the product.
- Works with other product teams/owners to align product roadmaps and sprint plans, and to focus on delivering the maximum business value to the organization.
- Working as a part of an agile team, ensures the team is aligned around similar goals and objectives and attending all team meetings.
- Engages with customers and users on a regular basis to uncover implicit and explicit needs.
- Develop and track key value drivers that measure effectiveness of product discovery and overall product performance, and communicate these to stakeholders and business leaders on a regular basis.
- Foster a sense of urgency to achieve goals and leverage resources to overcome unexpected obstacles.
- Inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while committing to the organization’s direction (Product/Agile/DevOps)).
What’s Needed?
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience, and 5+ years of work experience.
- Understand fundamentals of iterative development, software development process and procedures.
- Familiarity with principles of Agile Product Management, stakeholder management, market and user research, technology management, and process design.
- Passion and understanding of new technology and trends.
- Strong communication abilities to all levels of seniority and disciplines within the organization.
- Experience developing business cases, roadmaps, product execution strategies.
- Ability to prioritize work against enterprise, division, and product strategies. Can effectively communicate rationale and impact for prioritization choices.
- Experience in defining high-quality business requirements and proficient in Agile story writing.
- Experience with foundational product management tools, techniques and principles across discovery, design, build, release, and measure cycle.
- Strong leadership skills to coordinate and motivate product teams, even outside direct reporting relationships.
- Demonstrated experience with user interface design and best practices for usability.
- Experience working in large, complex organizational initiatives
- Advanced skills in MS Office Suite with particular emphasis on Excel and Powerpoint.
What’s in it for me?
- Long term opportunity (contract to hire)
- FULLY REMOTE
- Great culture
- Benefits during both the contracting period and once converted to full time with client
If this is a role that interests you and you’d like to learn more, click apply now and a recruiter will be in touch with you to discuss this great opportunity. We look forward to speaking with you!
