Role: Senior Product Owner
Skills: Compensation or Registration product experience, financial services
Location: Fort Mill SC
Job Type: Contract
Job Overview:
This is an Senior Product Owner position in Advisor Experience as a product owner for the Compensation products. As a trusted business partner, you will drive outcomes, lead cross-functional teams, drive strategy and contribute to the deep and thoughtful analysis that enables our leadership team to make informed decisions.
Responsibilities:
- Be the subject matter expert on our users and their needs and desires, through customer interviews, product analytics, user feedback sessions, and insight from internal partners
- Define mid-term technology product development roadmap, key features/capabilities, and manage the development cycles with clear schedules, deliverables and milestones
Develop and monitor metrics to track the success of products and features and inform future iterations
Work with a diverse group of cross-functional teams to ensure creative and continuous improvements
Collaborate across the firm to maintain alignment on vision, strategy, and performance to goals, approaching strategy with an entrepreneurial mindset, leveraging critical thinking to increase the value proposition of assigned products and programs
Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a vision, road-map, growth opportunities, and product backlog according to business value or ROI
Lead the planning of product release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities with PI roadmaps
Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
Set direction for Agile development teams and stakeholders throughout the project and facilitate requirements
Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product
Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
Research and analyze market, the users, and the roadmap for the product
What are we looking for?
We want strong collaborators who can deliver a world-class client experience. We are looking for people who thrive in a fast-paced environment, are client-focused, team oriented, and are able to execute in a way that encourages creativity and continuous improvement.
Requirements:
5-7 years experience hands-on experience with business & systems requirements processes
5-7 years of product owner experience or relevant business work experience.
Bachelor’s or in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or other related fields
Core Competencies:
Demonstrated experience as Product Lead
Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously.
Must be comfortable in rapidly changing and sometimes ambiguous work situations.
Comfortable working independently, adapting to shifting priorities, demands and timelines in a fast-paced environment
Exceptional customer focus with a strong bias for action
Demonstrated problem solving, organizational and time management skills
Collaborative team player
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Preferences:
Compensation or Registration product experience in broker dealer environment
Bachelors Degree preferred
Experience in Fintech and/or Financial Services
