SAFe Agile Product Owner

Description:

Business Initiative/Purpose: (Goal, Business Impact, Accomplishments from the work)

• We are seeking an Agile Product Owner for a scrum team to help build and enhance Client's digital account opening experience for unsecured lending products.

Role Responsibilities: (What they will be doing)

• Deliver new experiences by working directly with delivery, experience design, business, operations partners, and other stakeholders to design new products and improvements to existing capabilities.
• Lead the writing and refining of user stories.
• Author and maintain the team’s backlog of features and user stories and serve as a subject matter expert on features, user stories, and product capabilities.
• Participate in all scrum ceremonies such as Daily Stand Up, Backlog Refinement, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, etc.
• Collaborate with Product Management to gain insights into customer needs.
• Understand the customer persona and deeply understand their needs and expectations.
• Ensure the team has a clear understanding of the vision and roadmap during  PI Planning.
• Continually prioritize the scrum team's backlog.
• Accept user stories after validating the acceptance criteria and Definition of Done (DoD).
• Assist the team in resolving requirement-level dependencies with other teams.
• Actively resolve conflicting requirements and ambiguities by collaborating with Product Managers and other Product Owners.
• Apply systems thinking to ensure alignment with the solution roadmap.
• Risk management: Ensure all Product Management Lifecycle (PML) process & procedures are followed, supporting security, risk, audit, and more, and ensure action items and deadlines are met. Partner with product manager on evidence to support recommendations.

Bachelor Degree: (Required, Preferred or Not Required)

• Preferred.                 

Must Have Skills/Prior Experiences: (Vendor should not submit any candidate that does not have these skills/prior experience.)

• Bachelors’ degree in business, engineering, design, or technology field.
• 2+ years Product Owner experience in an Agile environment.
• User story creation, writing, and refinement.
• UAT or CAT testing experience.

PlNice to Have Skills/Prior Experiences: (Hiring Manager DOES NOT require these skills/ prior experience. However candidates with any of these will be looked at first.)

• 3+ years of banking, financial services, digital, or other relevant work experience.
• 5+ years of product, analysis, technology, and/or design experience.
• Experience defining and delivering digital business initiatives to execute on a product roadmap.
• Experience working with distributed teams (onshore/offshore).
• Certified SAFe® Product Owner/Product Manager (or equivalent).     

EEO

“Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.”