Technical Product Owner

Position: Technical Product Owner
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio (5 days work from office mandatory)
Duration: Long Term
Experience: 15 years
Visa: H1B, -EAD, L2-EAD, GC-EAD & USC

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Profile Summary: The Senior Product Owner (Technical) will collaborate with other Product Owners, Technology, Lines of Business, Risk, Finance, reg reporting and other key partners to define and drive requirements to support downstream reporting teams. This role requires expertise in banking, commercial lending, AFS Vision loan servicing and data publishing. The Senior Product Owner will drive deliverables of a squad of engineers using modern tech stack including Snowflake and DBT. Technical knowledge is a plus.

General Function: Responsible for defining, prioritizing, and managing the development of snowflake Data products that meets the needs of stakeholders. Will support the implementation of product roadmap deliverables, capabilities, and adoption, leading a robust prioritization process to maximize value, risk mitigation, and business benefits. Advocates for SAFe methodologies and ensures team backlog alignment with customer and stakeholder needs.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Motivate teams to deliver on strategy and roadmap for continuous product improvement.
• Partner with business functions, IT, Risk, Finance, Operations, and other key partners to define and execute product strategies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for agreement and guidance, including Lines of Business, Operations, Legal, Compliance, Information Security, Fraud, Architecture, and related functions.
• Provide transparency and ongoing communications with stakeholders.
• Make decisions to drive key outcomes in support of regulatory and compliance needs, new revenue growth, process optimization, and analytics.

·        Be involved with all phases of development (analysis, design, coding, testing, deployment) 

• Solve problems and make decisions with subject matter experts to drive the greatest outcome for the product and the Bank.
• Engage with research teams for customer usability testing and concept validation.
• Partner with third parties to cultivate relationships, understand product releases, remediate defects/outages, and ensure seamless experiences.
• Maintain and provide product information for training and documentation.
• Monitor industry trends and participate in industry forums and conferences.
• Support a SAFe mindset across product teams, maintaining a healthy product backlog and participating in team ceremonies.

      •   Evangelizes and communicates product capabilities and roadmap to internal groups as well as externally to clients.

Minimum Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities Required:

• Bachelor''s degree in a related field or equivalent education and work experience.
• 4+ years of related experience.
• Lean Six Sigma certification (Green Belt, Black Belt) desired.
• Product management background preferred; ability to interact and influence within the organization.
• Experience and understanding of non-relational & relational databases, Snowflake and DBT
• Ability to consult and articulate key messages to all levels within the organization.
• Basic business acumen and understanding of business processes related to products and customers.
• Experience working in Agile or SAFe development a plus.
• Ability to promote a work environment that fosters creative thinking and innovation.
• Collaborative with strong intellectual curiosity and creative problem-solving.
• Good analytical skills with ability to present well-thought-out, simple solutions.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently and with different teams in a fast-paced environment.

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