Sr. Product Owner

Sr. Product Owner

Hybrid in Westlake, TX

Our client is seeking a highly motivated individual with a growth mindset to join their team as a Sr. Product Owner. This person must have strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills to oversee the product delivery of new, innovative offerings that deliver customer value and align to our clients' future vision.

Responsibilities:

• Bringing together a team of squad members to deliver on specific product features and coordinating with cross-functional teams.
• Enabling working iteratively, innovating through testing and experimentation and learning from honest feedback and failures while celebrating success.
• Understanding the technology ecosystem (standards, practices, processes & tools); translating, defining and understanding technical requirements needed to deliver capabilities/features.
• Working with the Product Area Leader and matrixed accountability to functional Chapter Leaders for quality delivery and releases of discrete product features and capabilities; as well as talent planning and squad member development.

Experience Requirements:

• Owns alignment on "what" and "when" work is performed through ongoing planning and prioritization of a product backlog. Partners with other product delivery owners to influence broader strategic decisions, roadmaps and resource requirements to set and refine the mission. Responsible for balancing strategic and program level requirements in the product with core and maintenance changes including TLM, enterprise technology strategy prioritization.
• 5-8 years of experience in digital product development and financial services preferred
• Knowledge of and experience with institutional clients including financial advisor firms preferred
• Ability to lead and improve sophisticated programs while demonstrating positive relationship skills across business teams such as technology, service, sales and relationship management, marketing, and legal/risk/compliance
• Ability to coach and empower team to prioritize work, focus on execution, identify, communicate and remove impediments to progress
• Data-focused approach to understanding customer needs, translating strategic objectives into action, and measuring performance against established objectives and critical metrics
• Agile, Jira and Jira Align experience preferred

Education Requirements:

• BA/BS required; MBA or equivalent experience preferred