Senior Product Owner, Card Portfolio Credit Actions
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Job Description
The candidate will provide support to Card Portfolio Credit Management teams for the implementation of Credit Management Regulatory Activities (Terms Level changes, Annual Privacy notification, Prime Rate, etc), as well as Line Management Strategies and production fixes. The selected candidate will need to coordinate both the alignment of requirements and user story creation by engaging all necessary business stakeholders including Credit Decision Management, Credit Operations, Credit Bureau, Third Party Risk Management, and Legal. Strong communication, technological understanding of our current environment, and the ability to multitask across multiple initiatives will be necessary for success in this position.
What You’ll Do
- Focus on the Agile team and implementation and serve as the team’s technology conduit to other business partners.
- Write user stories that align to the product features, ensuring that the story pipeline (backlog) stays full and is prioritized. As the only team member authorized to accept stories as done, help ensure quality of story content.
- Support one or more Agile teams — forging significant relationships outside the local team, including working with the product manager to prepare features and user stories for continual planning cycles.
- Mentor other product owners and provide direction on more complex features.
How You’ll Do It
- Work with a dedicated Agile development team to deliver complex customer/business value through product features.
- Provide periodic status updates to business stakeholders and upper management. Serves as point of contact for the Agile team with the business and SMEs.
- Empowered to make all critical decisions regarding functionality and priority in the sprint.
- Manage and prioritize sprint backlogs continually with team input (prior to and during the backlog grooming sessions).
- Collaborate with other product owners and/or product manager to uphold business priority and vision.
- Develop complex user stories from prioritized features in collaboration with product manager.
- Champion efforts to attain product vision and objectives. Writes acceptance criteria for user stories. Ensure that user stories all meet Definition of Ready (DoR) and are updated in the Agile Management Tool.
- Ability to create the vision for larger initiatives across multiple teams.
- Ability to apply critical thinking and a logic based approach to problem solving
- Strong working knowledge of Project Management Software (Rally, Jira).
Qualifications You’ll Need
The Basics:
- Bachelor's degree in business, technology, finance, engineering, or related field
- 4+ years of experience as product owner, business analyst, customer service and relationships, IT, or related field
- In lieu of a degree, 6+ years of experience as experience as product owner, business analyst, customer service and relationships, IT, or related field
Bonus Points If You Have
- 6+ years of experience as product owner, business analyst, customer service and relationships, IT, or related field
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