Vendara · 1 day ago
Product Owner
Financial Services
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Responsibilities
Lead, inspire, and support your cross-functional, agile team to deliver internal and external value.
Communicate the vision, plans, objectives, and progress to both your team and internal stakeholders.
Prioritize and sequence the product backlog to provide the most value and organizational impact.
Collaborate with the PM and leadership sponsors to develop scopes of work and create user stories that solve a long-term need.
Hold true to Jira standards, with diligence to fill out the full detail, mocks when needed, edge cases, acceptance criteria, and testing scenarios.
Facilitate understanding of limits or risks of certain approaches, provide sophisticated but simple read-outs to the PM and leadership.
“MVP” oriented solutions to complex problems.
Partner with Engineering Lead and own portions of the Agile/Scrum ceremonies such as grooming and planning while being an active attendee of all others.
Deliver verbal and written project-centric feedback to team members, celebrating successes and calling out risks when needed.
Identifying any misalignments with expectations and consistently provide visibility.
Provide detailed tickets, requirements, acceptance criteria, and when needed mocks of the expected outcome for the request to Engineering.
Ability to clearly articulate the “why” behind requests to ensure complete alignment across the organization.
Build partnerships across the Product and Engineering organizations and manage cross-product dependencies.
Work closely with engineering, design, project, product marketing, architecture, analysts, sales, legal, risk, finance, account management, and support to gather feedback, requirements, and alignment or sign-off.
Qualification
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Required
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Self-starter and eagerness to learn and improve Product related skills
Deeply inquisitive with ability to be open to and able to consider innovative approaches
Flexible in a fast-paced environment
Organized and detail oriented with a passion for solving and fixing problems
Open to coaching and excited about interacting with the team to evolve the right solutions
Maintain awareness of the next great thing - topics moving from academic study into engineering production
Preferred
Experience with leading and partnering with Engineering teams and solving complex software engineering technical challenges
Experience building, operating, and deploying highly scalable web/mobile applications
Benefits
Medical insurance
Vision insurance
Dental Insurance
401(k)
Unlimited PTO
Paid Federal Holidays