CompanyFederal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
The selected candidate will reside within a reasonable commuting distance defined by the employing Reserve Bank and will work full-time onsite.
The Product Owner is aligned with the Lead Product Owner & Business Product Management and understands the product vision, goals, and roadmap. They translate business wants and needs into a prioritized set of requirements by conducting business process analysis, needs assessments, and preliminary cost/benefits analyses to align with a robust information technology roadmap.
They manage and prioritize the team's backlog accordingly and lead their respective Agile team in delivering most important customer/stakeholder outcomes. Product Owners may also prepare functional, system and program specifications and assist in implementation of systems, as well as participate in System initiatives and/or workgroups.
Your role as Product Owner:A successful candidate will be a leader with experience operating in complex organizations and delivering well supported solutions. The Product Owner must:
- Continuously learn about the customer, their business needs, and contribution of the product to their desired outcomes
- Work with the Lead Product Owner and Product Management to communicate, re-enforce the vision, goals, and product roadmap, in the form of features/stories with the Agile team.
- Possess enough business and technical knowledge about the product to engage in team discussions.
- Work closely with architecture, engineering, and quality assurance to ensure the right customer problem is solved.
- Communicate with both technical and business stakeholders to understand and gather requirements and translate into technical specification when necessary.
- Decompose and prioritize epics/features into user stories and define detailed test acceptance criteria.
- Ensure technology-driven and risk-remediation requirements are prioritized to prevent the accumulation of technical debt and other vulnerabilities.
- Support the team as a subject matter expert representing the business and clarify any arising questions from the agile team.
- Support application development with enabler stories.
- Determine if the work done to complete a story met success criteria and accepts when satisfied.
- Assist in the analysis of defects and enhancements to determine severity and priority as well as overall validity.
- Contribute to discussions on risks, dependencies, issues, and schedule updates as needed.
- Ensures agreement on actions to address dependencies between broader FRFS teams
- Present working software to stakeholders at team and system demos.
- Prepare innovative product proposals and messaging for product forums; present to Group-level governance forums
- Utilize data and feedback to make informed decisions and continuously improve the product.
- Actively monitor product-specific OKRs and manage to targets with stakeholders.
- Contribute to the elaboration and advancement of the roles and responsibilities for this position, identifying process improvements and sharing with peers.
- Actively promote Agile behaviors within business, technology and across FRFS.
What we are looking for:- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology or any technical related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Typically requires a minimum of 7-10 years of related experience.
- Ability to bridge the business/IT divide in a way that establishes rapport and gains understanding.
- Possess a strong understanding of business requirement development and analysis including use cases, functional specifications, user interface specifications, etc.
- Effective problem solver with ability to identify challenges, brainstorm ideas and collaborate with cross functional teams to implement effective solutions.
- Ability to work independently with minimal oversight and manage multiple deliverables simultaneously; take ownership of issue resolution and completion of high-quality deliverables.
- Strong teamwork, leadership, critical thinking, multitasking, and time management skills in a highly matrixed organization.
- Ability to develop deep subject matter expertise for specific products and its broader ecosystem to effectively drive enhancements, support internal stakeholders and influence broader decision making.
- Ability to understand and resolve blockers and delivery risk quickly and without the need for escalation outside their product scope.
- Ability to understand competing priorities across technology and business areas, clearly articulate options, and use personal influence to define the resolution across their product set and areas with payment interdependencies.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to articulate ideas clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Certified Product Owner in Scrum or SAFe, preferably Advanced level, and recent JIRA experience are highly desirable
- Background in financial services industry with web applications in a cloud environment.
Full Time / Part TimeFull time
Regular / TemporaryRegular
Job Exempt (Yes / No)Yes
Job CategoryProject/Product Management Family Group
Work ShiftFirst (United States of America)
