T2C Senior Product Owner or Product Owner Lead (Remote)
- Cleveland, OH
Senior Product Owner or Product Owner Lead
The Federal Reserve is transforming the U.S. government's largest digital tax collections system, led by customer and data-driven insights and a commitment to modernization and innovation. This position is a unique opportunity to be part of that mission-critical Federal Reserve initiative and to join a talented and driven team committed to excellence.
To be considered for this role, candidates must be a U.S. citizen.
Position Contributions
Are you a passionate about bringing vision to life and building great products? Is your ideal work environment a place where you can collaborate across teams and with stakeholders across the organization while managing your product backlog? If so, we have the job for you! As someone that lives at the intersection of development, design, and business, while constantly anchoring on the needs of end users and providing the highest quality product, you will collaborate with other development teams and their product owners to bring the digital tax collection solution to market.
What will be expected of you
Support product requirements and feature roadmaps from concept through delivery
Gather, analyze and translate business needs into actionable, clearly defined user stories
Prioritize user stories aligned with the product team's overall vision and strategy
Work closely with Product Managers to execute the product roadmap
Solve product related problems, make decisions, complete trade-off analysis to manage scope creep and stay on track towards business deliverable commitment
Refine backlog to ensure user stories have detailed and accurate acceptance criteria and are 'ready' for development to start
Serve as a subject matter expert and primary contact for your assigned domain
Maintain awareness of current industry trends and innovations
Surface and track cross-functional dependencies and schedule to reassess priorities and manage release
Attend, lead and / or participate in Scrum ceremonies in the role of Product Owner (Release / Sub-Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Up's, Product Backlog Refinement, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective)
Prioritize defect / bug resolution and manage the backlog to address product quality issues
Approve or reject user stories to ensure product quality
Provide and / or assist team with sprint demos for stakeholders
Collaborate with cross-functional teams (business integration, industry engagement, technology, CX/UX, QA and operations) throughout the lifecycle of the product
Communicate and report product-related issues and status updates to various levels of stakeholders such as SME's and executive leadership as needed
Work closely with Scrum Master to keep pulse on team morale and sprint performance so that team is functioning at peak performance
Performs other duties as assigned or requested
Education and Experience
• Bachelor`s Degree
• Senior Product Owner: 5 + years of diverse professional work experience
• Product Owner Lead: 7+ years of diverse professional work experience
Expertise you would bring
• Experience working as a Product Owner (minimum 5 years; certification preferred)
• Experience working with payments systems, cloud technologies (preferred)
• Experience working with agile software tools such as Jira (preferred)
• Experience working with geographically dispersed agile development teams
• Experience working with cross-functional teams to deliver on a common goal
• Ability to put a decision making framework around complex/unclear problems
• Strong collaboration, influencing skills, and verbal and written communication skills
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
• Organizational and time management skills
• Attention to details
• Active listening
• Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, etc.)
Physical Demands and General Working Conditions
• Employees typically sit most of the day, work with a computer and may answer/respond to phone calls. Physical movement consists of walking for meetings, breaks, etc. Ability to lift items weighing approximately 20 pounds on a limited basis is required. Employees may be required to travel by car/air
• Some travel within the US is required, and can be extensive
The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are dedicated to sustaining an environment in which diversity is valued and differences are strengths. It is the Bank's policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, gender identity or expression, genetic information or sexual orientation.
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