Product Owner

We are looking for a Product Owner with financial services experience for our client - major bank. Quick one round Zoom video interview and same day decision. The work is remote now and will stay remote indefinitely.

• Industry: Major Bank
• Duration: 12 months plus
• Locations: NYC but indefinitely remote
• Interview process: 1 round interview
• Rate:
  Up to $71.12 per hour on W2 - NO C2C.

• Gain an in-depth understanding of Global Banking & Markets applications, how they are used by the business and how applications fit into the overall strategy.
• Creates the vision and roadmap for the product to align with strategic direction for the business or technology domain.
• Communicates the product vision and roadmap to C-Suite stakeholders and business teams, and drives user adoption.
• Collaborates with stakeholders to understand their needs, problems, and aligns them on priorities.
• Creates and prioritizes features/epics in the program backlog; empowered to make decisions about trade-offs with emerging work versus planned work
• Creates and prioritizes work for 1-3 teams. Experienced with cross-functional teams.
• Creates and prioritizes stories in the product backlog.
• Refines stories with the team to ensure there are enough “ready” stories to load the next 1-2 sprints.
• Reviews and accepts stories and is empowered to make on-the-spot decisions on scope and requirements.
• Works in partnership with the team to ensure that optimum value is obtained through technology and through an advanced understanding of the business.
• Providing application training and demonstrations

• BA or BS degree in information technology or computer science from an accredited 4 year university
• MBA or MS degree preferable.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and strategic thinking ability; ability to troubleshoot production issues and get them resolved quickly by the appropriate support team.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, ability to prioritize effectively and handle responsibilities for multiple projects / support issues concurrently
• Superior verbal and written communication skills; ability to get a point across quickly and concisely is important
• Agile skills to write quality User Stories, effectively prioritizes the backlog/work items, defines acceptance criteria, and aligns business stakeholders on priorities.
• Expertise in documenting work and artifacts in JIRA and Confluence and generate team metrics
• Experience working as part of a global team is a plus
• Expertise in MS Office, MS Project, SharePoint, with experience in design tools like Visio, draw.io
• Knowledge and experience in document management and collaboration platforms
• Able to create low fidelity, high level wireframes for product vision