Job Description:
Director, Product Owner
The Role
Fidelity Charitable is actively seeking an experienced digital leader to drive key initiatives evolving the next generation giving platform. This role is part of the Portfolio delivery team responsible for delivering on a strategic multi-year plan to reimagine the digital experience and solutions for donors, associates, advisors and non-profits. As a Director, Product Owner, you act as a catalyst and vision-keeper for agile teams. You support multiple teams' delivery by ensuring the backlog is prioritized, engaging actively with the teams, guiding teams towards solutions, measuring impacts, and broadcasting results to the broader organization. The product owner communicates with stakeholders, while simultaneously working to connect the teams to users and the broader business. This role will also be responsible for assisting with broader advisor and non-profit solutions area needs for things like, prioritizing across team backlogs, strategic thinking and success metric analysis.
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- Engagement with broader Fidelity Charitable staff to identify and deliver platform enhancements that drive user experience and donor results
- Serve as Product Owner throughout agile process, ensuring user stories and business acceptance criteria meet business requirements and user expectations
- Mentor/Coach other Product owners on standards and best practices
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
- 8+ years product management/ product owner experience
- BA or BS, MBA a plus
- Ability to manage requirements and backlogs for up to two teams.
- A passion for innovation and big picture thinking, while also being able to comprehend and communicate details of feasibility and delivery
- A background in agile methodologies at scale
- A Product mindset that indexes to client obsession, outcomes, and execution
- Ability to collaborate with cross functional teams to deliver value for our associates and end users
- Ability to translate cross functional business goals, epics, and user stories for an Agile team
- Experience creating product backlogs, prioritized based on value, size, risk, and other relevant considerations
- Experience encouraging teams to take ownership for their commitments without sacrificing quality or sustainable pace
- Comfort with emerging technologies, assessing new opportunities and engaging with creative thinkers passionate for how technology is best used to make giving easier and impactful
- Strong communication skills with experience presenting to senior audiences and stakeholder management
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Experience working closely with agile teams to define initiative roadmap, prioritize backlog(s), and define a Minimum Viable Product
- Create and maintain strategy decks and provide regular roadmap updates
- Passion from solving problems without leading with solutions
Note: Fidelity is not providing immigration sponsorship for this position
The Team
This team is part of the Advisor and Non-Profit Solutions Product Area within Fidelity Charitable, whose mission is to grow the American tradition of philanthropy by providing programs that make charitable giving accessible, simple and effective.
Certifications:
Category:
Product Management
Fidelity's hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.
Please be advised that Fidelity's business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.