Sr. Product Delivery Associate

As the Product Delivery Associate, you will be an integral part of ensuring successful delivery of CoBrand roadmap priorities by working closely with cross-functional internal and external teams as the primary point of contact to ensure that all milestones are completed and documented on time and within scope, and escalating when necessary. You will have a heavy focus on coordinating and overseeing readiness to launch and testing activities in preparation for successful project implementations. Initiatives will vary across 11 different CoBrand partners, with the goal of creating efficiencies and streamlining process when and where possible.

Job responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate and conduct readiness to launch activities to ensure that full scope of testing and validation is conducted prior to launch.
• Collaborate with internal and partner stakeholders to ensure seamless product delivery.
• Work with stakeholders to provide consistent status updates on projects, risks, and issues and ensuring alignment in messaging across matrixed organizations.
• Manage project escalations and blockers efficiently, in a timely manner and to the right point of contacts. 
• Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure successful product delivery.
• Continuously evaluate and improve delivery processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Coordinate the triage of issues that are identified during various phases of testing (UAT, PVA, Friends and Family, Performance, Regression, ADA Compliance).
• Manage defects from identification to resolution, ensuring they are resolved on agreed upon timelines.

 Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 2 years of experience or equivalent expertise in product management or a relevant domain area.
• Architectural and technical understanding of applications, along with downstream and upstream impacts.
• Understanding and knowledge of APIs.
• 2 Years of experience coordinating data conditioning to enable seamless transfer across internal applications and partner platforms.
• Ability to identify and resolve data flow issues to support efficient and successful product delivery.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain strong internal and external relationships.
• Knowledge of the product development life cycle.
• Experience with agile process and principles.
• Strong understanding of readiness activities required in end to end project delivery.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with test planning and execution.
• Knowledge and experience in use of Jira.
• Demonstrate prior experience working in a highly matrixed, complex organization.
• Knowledge of the financial services industry and regulatory environment.
• Experience in managing partner/client engagements and expectations.