Product Owner

We re seeking a future team member for the role of Product Owner to join our Loans Enablement Platform. This role is located in (4 days in office at) Pittsburg, PA or Houston, TX,

In this role, you ll make an impact in the following ways:

• Product Ownership of a loan product, including product strategy, annual roadmaps, and quarterly initiatives

• Contributes to the platform s strategic objectives and key results using product-specific data, metrics, and goals.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in operations and client teams to translate the business needs into epics and stories.

• Responsible for prioritization of the work based on business value, using estimated new revenue, operational KPI and KRIs, and other metrics.

• Provide day-to-day direction to guide the pod for clarification of story details and acceptance criteria.

• Knows when to escalate to managers. Able to identify and triage issues with specific features but understand how multiple features are interrelated and catch more complex problems. Customer Insights: Effectively defines proper measurement and instrumentation for a product to analyze results post-release/launch.

• Assesses the quality of existing UX to make recommendations on how to improve user experience.

• Ability to create wireframes independently and in coordination with the design team.

• Signoff on stories through active participation in validation and Sprint Reviews

• Facilitates handoff of stories requiring operational readiness, training, or adoption, continuing to track metrics to drive future stories.

• Fosters agile ways of working, DevOps, and automated testing.

To be successful in this role, we re seeking the following:

• 5+ years of related experience required; experience in the syndicated loan market, private wealth loans, administrative agent, or other loan-type asset classes, or money movement, reconciliations, and trading.

• Systems implementation experience

• Experience determining the MVP for the initial go-live

• Ability to break down highly complex loan initiatives into small epics and stories that deliver incremental business value.

• Effective collaboration skills. Ability to influence, make hard decisions, and problem-solve.

• Passion for changing the status quo, driving out-of-the-box thinking. Ability to adapt and lead through change.

• Bachelor s degree in accounting, finance, computer science engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent work experience required.

• 5+ years of product experience and agile ways of working