Product Owner- Digital Bank

Position Summary

Summary Essential Job Functions

• Own the roadmap for initiatives requiring system, configuration, or process changes within the Finxact and Savana environments to support the Digital Bank’s goals and strategic initiatives.
• Manage the Finxact and Savana release schedules which include coordination with IT’s release management team, UAT, vendors, SMEs, and all end users.
• Own the delivery of configuration to support Digital Bank products and initiatives by working closely with the other Digital Bank Product Owners.
• Support and partner with engineering teams - including escalation and resolution of impediments.
• Communicate strategy and services to external and internal partners, peers, and executives.

Characteristics to succeed in this role:

• Strategic: You are comfortable navigating between the big ideas and execution realities to create an achievable plan that drives progression.
• Task Oriented: You understand how to organize and prioritize deliverables for yourself and the team you partner with.
• Analytical: You seek data and derive insights from this data to drive strategy.
• Articulate: You can communicate complex ideas clearly, both the why and the what. Your manager and other stakeholders understand the purpose and the plan. Your team is in sync and aligned.
• Leadership: You can rally people of different disciplines behind a shared vision of the future. You are also able to listen and learn as well as coach others.
• Open-minded: You have your own perspective and methodology. But this does not prevent you from trying new things. Ultimately you are curious and believe in continual learning and evolution.
• Action-oriented: You have an urgency to progress.  You troubleshoot and sometimes fail, but you apply those learnings and move forward.

Position Requirements

• An undergraduate degree and 6 plus years of work experience.
• At least 2 years of experience as a product owner or product manager on an Agile sprint team.
• At least 2 years working as a business analyst within a Finxact/Savana ecosystem.
• Strong communication and follow-up skills.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Superior verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Demonstrate company core values of excellence, ownership, collaboration, and integrity

Preferred

• Experience in the Finance or Accounting field at a financial institution working as a product owner/manager in an Agile environment.