Senior Product Owner

Role: Senior Product Owner III

Location: Cincinnati, OH (Onsite)

Type: Contract

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Define and prioritize work across technical and business domains to deliver a high-impact Mastered Data Product for Loans & Leases.
• Translate enterprise data quality and regulatory needs into actionable user stories and epics, balancing short-term deliverables with long-term scalability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including data engineers, analysts, architects, and business stakeholders to ensure alignment on goals and execution.
• Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring stories are well-defined, estimated, and sequenced to maximize business value and technical feasibility.
• Facilitate backlog refinement and sprint planning, ensuring clarity and readiness of work items across both technical and business-focused streams.
• Champion data governance and quality standards, embedding controls and lineage into product design and delivery.
• Serve as the voice of the customer and business, representing regulatory, reporting, and operational needs in product decisions.
• Communicate product vision, roadmap, and progress to stakeholders at all levels, including executive leadership.
• Support squad enablement and agile maturity, coaching team members on agile practices and product thinking.

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) nice to have.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ability to bridge the gap between product and technical teams, processes and concepts.