What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Owner position at Mindlance?
Title: Product Owner
Duration: 18 Months – (Contract/Contract to Hire)
Location/Site: Atlanta, GA / Charlotte, NC
Role & Responsibility:
1. Lead the Agile delivery team’s priorities in PI planning, sprint planning, and other agile ceremonies; aligned to larger experience platform priorities and vision defined by product management.
2. Align with product managers to clearly articulate product strategy to the delivery team.
3. Deliver new experiences by working directly with delivery, experience design, business, and operations partners to design new products and improvements to existing capabilities.
4. Author and maintain the team’s backlog of user stories and serve as a subject matter expert on features, user stories, and product capabilities.
5. Perform triage on critical issues and communicate consistently and clearly with all concerned parties.
6. Serve as key resource to development team to answer questions, provide clarifications, and conduct and coordinate business validation, focusing on fitness for use.
7. Update leadership on the epic and feature delivery schedule, including dependencies impacting deliverables, along with recommended solutions.
8. Partner with solution architects and other technical leads to ensure their solutions effectively address program priorities while balancing client experience and technical integrity.
9. Facilitate sprint planning with stakeholder groups to drive alignment and visibility for which features will be built when, and to ensure overall adherence to the product roadmap and enterprise strategic themes.
10. Facilitate sprint demos and provide final acceptance for completed user stories in sprint demos; ensuring that the story meets acceptance criteria and otherwise meets its definition of done.
Must Have Sklls/Prior Experiences:
1. Bachelors’ degree in business, engineering, design, or technology field; or related field or equivalent combination of education and professional experience
2. Five or more years of banking, financial services, digital, or other relevant work experience
3. Three or more years of product, analysis, technology, and/or design experience
4. Three or more years of leading cross functional teams
5. Experience defining and delivering digital business initiatives to execute on a product roadmap
6. Demonstrated technical acumen and an ability to work with the technology organization to align product and technology roadmaps
7. Ability to translate strategic plans into tactical daily actions for execution
8. Ability to lead cross-functional teams without formal authority
9. Comfortable managing concurrent projects in a fast-based, results-driven environment
10. Comfortable with ambiguity, leading work autonomously, and making independent decisions
11. Strong analytical skills, ability to interpret data and trends, diagnose problems, and recommend action plans to resolve issues
12. Excellent skills in presentation, facilitation, communication, and negotiation
Plus & Nice to have:
Experience in the Financial industry, experience with data analytics, experience with UI/UX design
EEO: “Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans
Salary : $60 - $62