Ascensus · 13 hours ago
Director, Product Owners
Dresher, PA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$140K/yr - $160K/yr
12+ years expAscensus is the leading independent technology and service platform powering savings plans across America. The Product Owner Chapter Lead position is a senior-level role responsible for overseeing and leading a team of Product Owners across multiple product lines while partnering with business stakeholders to ensure delivery of the firm’s highest priorities.
ConsultingRetirementTraining
Responsibilities
Responsible for overall management of up to 15 Product Owners; oversight of interactions with stakeholders, scrum teams, and other key contributors as well as responsibility of managing and optimizing the resource allocation to execute on the product vision and roadmap
Partners with key business stakeholders from various channels to ensure knowledge of requests and relative priority
Holds the Product Owners accountable for ensuring clear vision and goals at the start of every sprint
Promotes ongoing customer engagement via various methods including monthly release readouts
Participates in overall agile organizational assessment and advocates for alignment between Ascensus business units
Develops the appropriate training program for product owners to support culture of continuous learning and to ensure continued agile maturity
Supports Ascensus I-Client service philosophy and our Core Values of People Matter, Quality First and Integrity Always®. These should be visible in your actions on a day to day basis showing your support of our organizational culture
Responsible for protecting, securing, and proper handling of all confidential data held by Ascensus to ensure against unauthorized access, improper transmission, and/or unapproved disclosure of information that could result in harm to Ascensus or our clients
Leads overall “inspect and adapt” philosophy across all ceremonies and interactions
Assist with other tasks and projects as assigned
Motivate, provide direction, support and mentoring to the chapter and assist team members
Ensure policies and procedures are followed by associates
Screen candidates for potential employment and make final hiring decisions and or recommendations for the department
Use decision making skills to work through difficult situations in conjunction with partners and other functional units across the organization
Mentor staff
Ensure compliance with all company and industry policies and regulations
Write and deliver performance evaluations to each chapter member
Provide management of staff in a matrix environment
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree required
A minimum of 12 years of business experience
A minimum of 5 years management experience of associates
Experience with web-based applications and interface conventions
Proficient with MS Office: Word, and Excel, as well as working with industry-standard and agile measurement tools: e.g. JIRA, Aha!, Sharepoint
Strong communication skills, especially the ability to translate technical terms into business terms as well as with written documentation
Must be detail-oriented and analytical
Must possess the drive to solve problems and improve inefficient processes; lead the team to think of creative/innovative solutions
Proven ability to quickly grasp information and independently produce results
Demonstrated success in facilitating / leading meetings with internal stakeholders and a strong need to influence
Preferred
A minimum of 5 years Agile/Scrum processes and best practices preferred
Familiarity with financial systems and participant transaction processing is preferred, especially retirement plans
Benefits
401(k) match
Medical
Dental
Vision
Paid-Time-Off
Company
Ascensus
Ascensus delivers high-quality solutions for every segment of the retirement plan marketplace.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
Atlas Merchant Capital
2021-04-26Acquired
2019-02-19Secondary Market
Leadership Team
Marc Mehlman
Chief Financial Officer
Marc Doucette
Regional Vice President
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