Product Owner

About Eleven Recruiting

We are a specialized technology staffing agency supporting professional and financial services companies. Why do we stand out in technology staffing? We listen and act as advisors for our candidates on how they can best add value, find interesting projects, and pave a path for career advancement. We advocate for the best pay, diversity in tech, and the best job fit for every candidate we place.

Our client, an investment firm, is seeking an experienced Product Owner to join their team in New York, NY!

The ideal candidate will own outcomes, not just artifacts. This role blends product thinking with strong delivery discipline: shaping a roadmap, aligning stakeholders, planning intelligently, and driving execution with transparency. You’ll partner closely with Back Office Operations and Global Business Finance, helping modernize workflows and platforms in a way that is practical, controlled, and genuinely improves how the business runs.

Responsibilities

• Own discovery. Lead structured discovery efforts to clarify problem statements, current-state workflows, constraints, and success metrics—then translate that into a plan stakeholders can believe in.
• Set direction. Build and maintain a product roadmap that balances transformation, near-term outcomes, and operational stability.
• Run delivery with discipline. Define milestones, manage dependencies, track progress, and surface risks early—without drama or surprises.
• Be the connective tissue. Coordinate across business users, engineering, architecture, and leadership; communicate status, tradeoffs, and decisions clearly.
• Bring users along. We use agile practices, but not every user group is mature in agile. You’ll build trust through honest conversations, humility, and transparency—helping partners adopt better ways of working over time.
• Own the backlog. Translate needs into well-formed epics and stories with clear acceptance criteria; prioritize based on business value, risk, and effort.
• Handle conflict well. Navigate competing priorities, resolve disagreements constructively, and keep teams focused on outcomes.
• Champion quality and controls. Ensure solutions are operable and auditable where needed—clear definitions, controlled rollouts, and attention to reliability.
• Use AI responsibly. Leverage AI tools to move faster (analysis, writing, summarizing, prototyping, documentation), while maintaining strong judgment, validation, and appropriate guardrails.

Qualifications

• 5 years in a Product Owner, Product Manager, Program Manager, or Senior Business Analyst role (financial services experience strongly preferred).
• Demonstrated strength in planning, budgeting, tracking, and delivery execution—you can run a tight ship without turning it into bureaucracy.
• Strong stakeholder management skills: you build rapport, create clarity, and keep diverse groups aligned.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; you can make complex work understandable and actionable.
• Proven ability to break down complex problems and drive decisions with incomplete information.
• Comfort working closely with engineering teams; you don’t need to code, but you should understand how software gets built and shipped.
• High integrity and maturity: you’re transparent, consistent, and trusted—especially when things are hard.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Operations, accounting, finance, or other control-oriented business functions.
• Experience working in modern delivery environments (CI/CD, cloud platforms, event-driven systems, workflow orchestration, data platforms).
• A track record of driving transformation—process, platform, or operating model—without losing the business in the process.

Why Join

• Real ownership: You’ll shape meaningful work that impacts day-to-day operations and firm-wide financial outcomes.
• Growth through scope: You’ll operate across strategy, discovery, and delivery—building a strong foundation for senior product leadership.
• A modern toolbox: You’ll work in a tech-forward environment where AI is embraced as a productivity and innovation accelerator—paired with the judgment required for real-world systems.
• A team that delivers: Clear expectations, direct communication, and a culture that values outcomes over theater.

Pay Rate: $70 - $85/hr