Position SummaryThe Lead Product Owner provides dedicated Digital support for the Middle Office, serving as the primary link between business priorities and technology delivery. This role owns the Middle Office digital product vision, roadmap, intake, and backlog across interconnected risk oversight, performance measurement, data, analytics, workflow, and automation needs. The position partners closely with Middle Office leaders, Digital teams, data management, architecture, and Commercial stakeholders to translate complex business needs into governed, scalable solutions, align competing priorities, clarify ownership, and deliver measurable business value while strengthening the long-term operating model.
Key Responsibilities• Responsible for continuous delivery of value to the customer through compelling and empowering customer experiences, accountable for a complex/ critical product, or multiple related products within a product family / portfolio.
• Leads development of an integrated Middle Office digital roadmap and prioritizes releases across risk oversight, performance measurement, data topology, analytics, workflow, and automation capabilities, aligning delivery with business strategy, regulatory and governance needs, and measurable value.
• Collaborates closely with Agile teams, stakeholders, and business representatives to proactively identify and address challenges that arise during product development, ensuring successful execution of the product strategy.
• Establishes a clear engagement model across Middle Office, Digital, Commercial technology, data management, architecture, analytics, and delivery teams; drives decisions on intake, ownership, prioritization, dependencies, user acceptance testing, process change, and technology direction.
• Serves as the single product-intake and prioritization lead for Middle Office technology needs, organizing stakeholder priorities and balancing near-term operational needs, foundational data work, and strategic capabilities against resources, funding, risk, and enterprise standards.
• Prioritizes product backlog, processes and release plan for multiple features for a complex or higher profile product, and plans the coordination of interdependencies with scrum team, across other lines of business.
• Works with cross functional teams to ensure alignment with similar goals and objectives and cross-team prioritization. Carries out ongoing analysis of product capability themes in order to support product direction.
• Delivers product innovation, definition, deliverables planning (roadmap), and design of entirely new products to deliver against team and company goals.
• Interprets and communicates product development builds on cross-departmental knowledge and puts the customer at the heart of all product changes.
• Identifies common client pain points and opportunities and defines right solutions to address; captures stakeholder concerns and implements refinements; serves as the voice of the client, bringing that perspective back to internal stakeholders; serves as an Agile product development champion across department and/or company.
Education and Experience- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, related field or equivalent work experience;
- Product Owner certification required
- Product Management preferred.
- 7+ years of relevant experience required
- Experience in the oil and gas, refining, midstream, commodity trading, or energy industry, with an understanding of physical and financial commodity transactions and value-chain operations, preferred.
- Experience supporting Middle Office, commercial risk, or performance-measurement capabilities, including operational P&L, mark-to-market valuation, P&L attribution, priced-to-GAAP reconciliation, exposure monitoring, or risk-limit controls, preferred.
- Experience documenting and improving business processes, data flows, business rules, controls, ownership, and system interactions across Commercial, Middle Office, Finance, Accounting, Risk, and Digital teams.
- Experience with energy trading and risk management systems, risk data platforms, enterprise resource planning systems, market-data feeds, data integration, reporting, analytics, data lineage, and data governance is preferred.
- Experience leading requirements definition, user acceptance testing, data and business-rule validation, control evidence, issue resolution, and implementation readiness for complex, cross-functional technology solutions.
Skills•
Adaptability - Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment (e.g., people, processes, structure, or culture); adjusting effectively to change by exploring the benefits, trying new approaches, and collaborating with others to make the change successful.
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AI Fundamentals - Understanding of core AI concepts and methods, ability to apply AI to job-relevant use cases and capacity to contribute to organizational AI reimagination.
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Change Management - Change Management refers to a systematic approach for defining and implementing procedures and/or technologies to deal with changes in the environment. It can mean adapting to change, controlling change and/or effecting change.
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Agile Methodology - Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle, taking incremental steps towards the completion of a project.
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Authentic Communicator - Expresses ideas and information, both verbally and in writing, clearly and credibly. Listens to understand and fosters constructive dialogue.
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Backlog Management - A prioritized list of work for the development team that is derived from the roadmap and its requirements. The most important items are shown at the top of the product backlog so the team knows what to deliver first.
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Business Acumen - Applies knowledge of MPC's business, industry and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals. Makes decisions and recommendations clearly linked to MPC's strategy.
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Decision Making - Ability to know when and what decisions should be made and to make several decisions simultaneously in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
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Industry Product Knowledge - Industry product knowledge refers to a comprehensive understanding of the products and services within a particular industry. It encompasses familiarity with the features, functionalities, applications, and specifications of the products offered by companies operating in that industry. Industry product knowledge is crucial for professionals working in sales, marketing, customer service, product development, and various other roles within a company. It enables individuals to effectively communicate the value propositions of products, address customer inquiries, identify market trends, make informed business decisions, and contribute to the development and improvement of products and services within the industry. This knowledge often requires staying updated with the latest advancements, technologies, and market dynamics within the specific industry domain.
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Product Development - The creation, innovation, enhancement, or improvement of an existing product, or developing an entirely new kind of product to satisfy the requirements of its end-users.
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Product Lifecycle Management - The handling of a good as it moves through the typical stages of its product life: development and introduction, growth, maturity/stability, and decline.
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User Experience (UX) - User Experience (UX) refers to the overall experience that a person has when interacting with a product, service, or system, especially in terms of how easy or pleasing it is to use.
Location:
Findlay, Ohio
Additional locations:
San Antonio, Texas
Job Requisition ID:
Location Address:
539 S Main St
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Employee Group:
Full time
Employee Subgroup:
Regular
