Bilingual Product Owner
Typical Day in Role:
• Responsible for defining a product release and iteration backlog based on product overall vision and input from business SMEs, customer experience and the agile team.
• Understand and articulate the product vision, including its objectives, value proposition, and key risks associated with opportunities/ideas
• Collaborate with SMEs to assess how features will impact the end-user and how to effectively manage them
• Develop product roadmap and high-level backlog, further decomposed into releases which deliver significant value to the end user.
• Prioritize (and continuously reprioritize) delivery based on the calculated benefits/value of identified features/epics.
• Act as primary reviewer and approver of finished development work during iteration demos/reviews based on established acceptance criteria.
• Actively collaborate and engage with the agile team
• Regularly attend planning sessions, stand-ups, retrospectives, iteration reviews and other team meetings in order to verify that the output of the team is consistently delivering business value and aligned with the agreed upon commitments
• Shield the team from interruptions and outside interference by acting as a conduit between the business and the team
• Lead the development of user stories and supporting documentation with applicable acceptance criteria
• Decompose larger objectives or journeys into features and user stories that can be understood and committed to by members of the team
• Participate in iteration planning discussions to reduce ambiguity around the user stories and ensure clarity, optimize functionality and define features that align with product vision
• Support the team by being available to provide definitions required to complete detailed user stories, whether through face-to-face meetings or suitable light-weight documentation
• Advocate for the highest attainable levels of quality and for approaches that will minimize the impact of technical debt on the product and organization
• Utilize SMEs including team members to assist in the validation of epics and user stories as well as other activities such as user experience testing
• Prioritize backlog to ensure highest value features/epics are developed first and that all stories are aligned with and traceable to the product vision
• The Product Owner is empowered by the business to make decisions about the product direction
• Define features, themes and epics in suitable levels of detail and prioritize them based on their respective business value
• Establish and communicate product vision with key stakeholders and business owners, using customer research and available reporting and analysis to provide an economic justification for key decisions
• Review the output of the agile team at the end of every iteration, and before the product is released into the market, to ensure that it meets expectations
• Ensure full awareness of market and trends in the business environment through effective communication with stakeholders; using research and available analysis to help inform ideas
• Contribute to discussions on solutions and execute assigned priorities with consideration and awareness of potential impact on other initiatives (the organization overall Product / Portfolio Backlog).
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
1) 2+ years of experience on unsecure retail banking products (credit cards, personal loads, etc.)
2) 2+ years of experience with project management (project managers, pco, etc.)
3) Bilingual (Spanish/English)
4) Proficiency with MS Tools (Excel, PPT, Word)
Nice-To-Have Skills:
1) Masters / MBA
2) Experience working in an agile environment
3)Product Management experience (managing lifecycle of product)
Soft Skills Required:
Excellent Communication Skills (Verbal/Written) In both languages
Ability to multitask
Ability to effectively collaborate with different stakeholders
Education:
Bachelor Degree in business, finance, economics