Sr. Associate, Product Owner

Community Federal Savings Bank is a full-service payments, lending and banking provider that delivers global financial services through a personal approach. As the Product Owner, Payment Systems, you are a storyteller that can gather information from different stakeholders and deliver a product from inception phase all the way to launch, through constant iterations and ruthless prioritization. You are the glue that ties your squad together, and you use your brilliant communication skills to break down the business requirements into a backlog of technical tasks that the team understands. You are organized and a wizard at multi-tasking and are comfortable working with different levels of leadership in a highly visible role.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with the Scrum Master, lead agile development.
• Draft key objectives and results, strategies and apply the data for the product to make business decisions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders during the visioning and concept development of a product
• Perform discovery on topics to gather information for requirements and begin further analysis efforts
• Assess value and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work focuses on maximum value and alignment with product strategy
• Provide backlog management and prioritization, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
• Ensure development team understands items in the backlog and gets clarity on items
• Be responsible for the delivery of new features and updates to existing features
• Build and manage the backlog of user stories to achieve the business roadmap
• Prioritize activities according to user needs while taking into consideration IT constraints, relationships with external partners
• Continuously make improvements and fixes to the product to enhance the customer experience
• Inform and influence stakeholders of the initiative's progress and solution status, effectively sharing the product vision and complex situation
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
  
  

Education, Training, and Experience:

• Post-Graduate education in MBA or MS degree considered an asset
• 2-3 years’ experience as a Product Owner/Product Manager. Product Owner / Product Manager Certification (e.g., Certified Scrum Master or Certified Scrum Product Owner) an asset
• Experience with Agile methodology and tools including Confluence, JIRA
• Experience in Payment or Fintech including Real-time Rail and batch-based payment systems is highly desirable.
• Experience in delivering API products; affinity towards tech products and understanding API based products will be an added advantage.
• Possess a fundamental understanding of end-to-end customer experience integration and dependencies.
• Experience with automation and optimization of operational workflows
  
  

Salary Range: $110,000-$120,000 k / year

"Base salary range does not include performance-based bonus and/or other benefits, where applicable. Actual base salary offer will vary based on skills and experience."

About Community Federal Savings Bank (CFSB)

Community Federal Savings Bank (CFSB) is a federally chartered bank founded in 2001 and headquartered in New York City. CFSB has focused on providing superior service and added value to clients through as solid understanding of relationship banking. We offer a full range of services including loans, bill payments, card services, internet banking, and merchant processing.

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, military and/or veteran status, or any other Federal or State legally-protected classes.

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