What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Owner position at wellsfargo?
Description
Title:Product Owner
Location: Charlotte, NC
Duration: 37 W, 5 D
Work Engagement: W2
Work Schedule: Hybrid 3 days in office/2 days remote
Benefits on offer for this contract position: Health Insurance, Life insurance, 401K and Voluntary Benefits
Summary:
Key Responsibilities:
Agile Product Delivery
• Own and maintain the team backlog.
• Translate features, epics, and business requirements into well-defined user stories.
• Develop clear acceptance criteria and business rules.
• Ensure stories meet Definition of Ready standards prior to sprint planning.
• Support feature decomposition and story sizing activities.
• Facilitate backlog refinement sessions with engineering and business partners.
• Partner with Scrum Masters and Engineering Leads to support sprint planning and execution.
• Help establish sprint goals and ensure work aligns with roadmap priorities.
• Participate in sprint reviews, demonstrations, retrospectives, and planning activities. [Sprint Planning | SharePoint], [Writing User Stories | SharePoint], [Acceptance Criteria | SharePoint]
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Requirements Management
• Gather, document, and refine business requirements from stakeholders.
• Analyze current-state and future-state processes.
• Create user stories, process flows, use cases, and functional requirements.
• Identify assumptions, dependencies, risks, and cross-team impacts.
• Ensure requirements are testable, measurable, and implementation ready.
• Maintain traceability between business objectives and delivered functionality.
• Support UAT planning and business validation activities.
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Development Team Partnership
• Serve as the primary day-to-day product contact for assigned delivery teams.
• Answer implementation questions and make timely requirement decisions.
• Clarify business rules and priorities during development.
• Work alongside engineers, architects, QA, and UX resources to resolve ambiguities.
• Support defect triage and prioritization activities.
• Ensure delivered functionality meets intended business outcomes.
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Stakeholder Collaboration
• Partner with Product Managers and senior stakeholders to understand strategic priorities.
• Communicate delivery progress, risks, and dependencies.
• Facilitate working sessions to refine requirements and align stakeholders.
• Support roadmap planning and quarterly prioritization processes.
• Build strong partnerships across business, operations, technology, risk, and compliance teams.
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Enterprise & Control Responsibilities
• Consider regulatory, compliance, audit, and operational risk requirements during solution design.
• Ensure appropriate consideration is given to:
o Data quality
o Data lineage
o Entitlements and access controls
o Auditability
o Operational resiliency
o Exception handling
o Upstream and downstream system dependencies
• Support implementation within a highly regulated financial services environment.
Key Requirements:
· Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
• Product Owner, Business Analyst, Product Analyst, or Agile delivery experience.
• Experience creating user stories, acceptance criteria, and managing Agile backlogs.
• Experience working directly with software engineering teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working within large enterprise technology organizations.