Digital Product Owner

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Product Manager 5 in Chandler, AZ (Hybrid).

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.

Contract Duration: 12 Months

Required Skills & Experience

• 7 years of Product Management experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.

Desired Skills & Experience
Nice to Haves:

• Product & Strategy Skills
• Product vision & strategy definition
• Roadmap planning & prioritization
• Value-based decision-making (ROI, MVP focus)
• Customer-centric thinking & journey mapping
• Market and competitive analysis

Data & Performance Management

• Metrics definition (conversion, drop-off, completion rate)
• KPI tracking and reporting
• Experimentation and data-driven decisions
• Post-launch performance optimization

Agile Product Execution - Basic familiarity is fine

• Backlog ownership & prioritization
• Sprint planning, grooming, and refinement
• Definition of Ready / Definition of Done
• Iteration planning & release coordination
• Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)

What You Will Be Doing

• Consult as an expert to develop or influence initiatives and resources for highly complex business and technical needs across Product Management.
• Consult on the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, and advanced analytical and inductive thinking.
• Provide expertise to client senior leadership on innovative Product Management business solutions. Strategically engage with client personnel.
• Acting as a product owner and a senior business analyst, you will support the execution of a strategic initiative designed to build a merchant service services, digital application.
• Work closely with other product owners on the team to perform analysis, gather requirements, and help to design solutions in partnership with Technology teams.
• Support business readiness activities, such as partnering with communication and training teams to ensure our sales and operations teams are ready to support the backend processes from the digital application experience.
• Leverage project management skills to stay on task and ensure strong organization and delivery of expected results.

Day-to-day responsibilities:

• Participate in daily stand ups to understand planned activities for the day and week
• Work closely with the primary product owner assigned to this initiative to receive direction and support as needed to complete tasks
• Leverage copilot and other AI related tools to enhance and accelerate your work
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, such as technology, sales, operations, risk, and other teams impacted by the project
• Identify use cases for user acceptance, testing, and business readiness deliverables
• Contribute to or help create PowerPoint slides to communicate the progress of the initiatives

Critical differentiators:

• End-to-end application funnel understanding (prospect ? apply ? decision ? onboard)
• Ability to simplify complex product/risk rules into customer-friendly flows
• Strong integration awareness (backend systems, APIs, enterprise services)
• Comfort balancing:
  • Customer simplicity vs regulatory/compliance constraints
  • Business goals vs technical feasibility

Must Haves:

• Requirements & Analysis
• Requirements elicitation (workshops, interviews, discovery)
• Business process analysis & modeling
• Feature creation & acceptance criteria definition
• Gap analysis / impact analysis
• Data analysis & insight generation

Stakeholder & Communication Skills

• Cross-functional collaboration (Product, Tech, Risk, Ops, Design)
• Stakeholder alignment and expectation management
• Facilitation of working sessions / decision forums

Technical & Digital Fluency

• Understanding of APIs, integrations, and system architecture
• Familiarity with digital application flows (UI, backend, data capture)
• Experience with platforms and tools (Jira, Confluence, analytics tools)
• Basic data & reporting literacy

Customer Experience & Design Thinking

• UX/UI fundamentals and usability principles
• Journey mapping and funnel optimization (e.g., application flows)
• Accessibility and intuitive design mindset

Risk, Compliance & Governance

• Understanding of regulatory requirements (KYC, AML, etc.)
• Risk identification and mitigation
• Policy adherence (SDLC, controls, approvals)
• Audit readiness and documentation discipline

Leadership & Ownership

• Decision-making under ambiguity
• Prioritization trade-offs (scope vs. timeline vs. risk)
• Influencing without authority
• Accountability for outcomes (not just requirements)

Salary : $61 - $67