Product Owner

Job Description:

Product Owner

National Charitable Services is looking for a collaborative, team-focused, Product Owner with phenomenal interpersonal skills that can work across the domain and technology departments and digitize manual processes for our donors and advisors, while helping our service delivery partners.

The Product Owner for this team will ensure alignment on the 'what' and 'when' work is to be performed through ongoing planning and management of a roadmap that serves National Charitable Services, Corporate Solutions Product Area. Partnering cross squad dependencies while taking full ownership of the product backlog that enables effective delivery. You work closely with your delivery team, in an agile structure. Engage with squad members to share their input, deliver on sprint commitments, continuously improve, innovate, experiment, learn and celebrate success. Ensure releases are of high quality and implemented seamlessly by ensuring business readiness. You are committed to developing others and yourself to ensure the latest thinking and knowledge is integrated into the culture of the squad.

The Expertise You Have

This role requires a dedicated, committed, and passionate leader who has experience with:

• Designing and managing electronic trading platforms including algorithmic trading, smart order routing and internalization / matching engine.
• Is proficient in being able to extract and analyze data using SQL and other query languages.
• Inspire and empower the squad through a shared mission and roadmap that aligns the work they do and the value they deliver to the partners they support.
• Guide the team by serving as the voice of the client/partner towards high value, high quality execution.
• Clearly communicate impediments, progress and results against established objectives and KPIs towards successful delivery of agreed upon business, technology, and people results.
• Collaborate and coordinate with Technology Engineering Management and Scrum Masters to build squad capacity and capability that cultivates a growth mindset
• Make informed trade-off decisions to strike the right balance between quality, cost, and timelines.
• Improve value delivery and delivery excellence from planning through implementation.

• Bachelor's degree required
• 7+ years of Product Owner experience, IT Product Management experience or technical analyst experience, preferred
• Jira and Jira Align experience preferred
• Roadmap Management - skilled at defining and managing roadmaps that align business, data, and technology objectives by using quantitative and qualitative approaches to understand, sequence and prioritize needs
• Discovery - crafting current/future state diagrams, process flows, use cases that position prioritized areas for delivery success
• Planning - experience planning across teams for dependency alignment and facilitating quarterly planning activities that effectively break down work towards sprint goals
• Backlog Ownership - owns the backlog to ensure epics and stories are clear and concise with well-defined business value and acceptance criteria. Ensure backlog readiness for upcoming sprints
• Quality Execution - attention to detail with unwavering dedication to quality that is not limited to sign off. Ensure business readiness that ultimately delivers a seamless implementation.
• Partnerships - develop positive relationships and champion a collaborative team environment and proficient customer management
• Leadership - demonstrated expertise of leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues without formal authority with a track record of building engaged and empowered teams

• Drive product requirements, prioritization for multiple Squads working closely with key business and technology team members.
• Drive clarity in requirements with a well laid out plan which would require to build deep domain and system expertise.
• Ability to deal with evolving business needs and demonstrate leadership to manage ambiguity.
• Establish, deliver, and refine a product roadmap working closely with key business and technology collaborators across groups.
• Provide thought leadership to identify and pursue new opportunities through an ideation mentality.
• Strong planning and organizational skills, including the ability to manage several work streams simultaneously, while balancing business priorities and quality.
• Demonstrate value driven attitude to influence both business and technology to build consensus around prioritization and planning.
• Working with technology, UX design, architecture and analytic teams to bring best in class results.