Urgent Need - Sr. Product Owner in McLean, VA (Hybrid 4 days onsite)

Job Title: Sr. Product Owner

Location: Mclean, VA (Hybrid  4 days onsite)

Contract: 12 Months

Need a Product Owner (PO) to be allocated to the Credit Enhancement Project (retire CEDAR). PO should be senior level since the role will require he/she to work across blocks, heavy dependencies, and coordination. 

Job Description: 

• Understanding the needs of customers, internal and external, and their operational processes to identify, design and define solutions that can be effectively implemented to deliver value.
• Understanding the business strategy and apply it to the prioritization of the product backlog.
• Representing the Multifamily Technology team as the principal contact as a subject matter expert and technology vendo

Qualifications:

• College Degree or equivalent experience; advanced studies/degree preferred
• Minimum 7 – 9 years related experience; can be more than this
• Preferred Mortgage related experience with demonstrated experience in Multifamily real estate and/or Capital Markets
• Preferred people management experience
• Experience delivering large, complex change management projects that involve interfacing with multiple teams, especially projects involving changes to business applications and technology
• Proven ability to understand business needs and deliver related value
• Strong analytical and problem-solving thought processes
• Strong leadership skills with ability to lead, motivate and energize a team
• Ability to understand strategy and apply to day-to-day decisions
• Top notch written and verbal communication skills, including ability to present to management and expertly facilitate meetings
• High level of comfort operating in the gray, and flexibility to work on multiple, concurrent assignments

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Work with the business stakeholders to set ambitious and clear product vision and communicate ‘the story’ effectively to key stakeholders and the rest of the team
• Take a business process first approach, understanding current and future state business processes prior to solutioning
• Break business processes into capabilities and functional components (decomposition) and leverage the model for process reengineering and requirements gathering
• Ensure alignment of product features and stories, i.e., review, give feedback, and prioritize user stories in line with own vision
• Continuously improve backlog with the team, ensuring all items are clearly described, estimated, and prioritized
• Ensure customer-driven design considering user pain points & usability test results, using market & industry knowledge as well as continual research, to deliver a well-positioned product
• Exercise strong decision-making mandate from executive group to own product end-to-end
• Facilitate the collaboration of cross-organizational teams to establish, develop, implement and rollout new and enhanced capabilities. Includes working with UX, Change Management, Development, Architecture, Data, and other horizontal cross functional organizations
• Communicate value and status to various stakeholders and levels of management
• Participates or leads activities that support system development & deployment (e.g. process redesign, Day 1 setup, risk & controls documentation, user acceptance testing)
• Proficient in documenting risk & controls (e.g. policies, procedures, process flows, risk and control matrices)