Product Owner - Deposits - P152498_S1

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Key member of the business who is the conduit to technology through the Agile team. Responsible for writing user stories that align to the product features. Ensures the pipeline (backlog) stays full and is prioritized. Internally focused on the Agile team and implementation. Reviews and accepts user stories. Partners with Product Managers to prepare features and user stories for continual planning cycles.

Responsibilities

• Provides status updates to the business and management.
• Manages and prioritizes sprint backlogs.
• Empowers decisions regarding functionality and priority in the sprint. Approves each user story during the sprint.
• Develops user stories from prioritized features. Leads efforts to attain product vision and objectives. Writes acceptance criteria for user stories. Ensures that user stories meet the Definition of Ready (DoR) and are updated in the system.
• Collaborates with Agile teams to follow through on business priorities and visions.
• Partners with agile team to deliver customer and business value through product features.

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here's what we need from you:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Technology, Finance, Engineering, or related field
• 2+ years of experience in Product Owner, Business Analyst, Customer Service and Relationships, IT, or related field
• In lieu of a degree, 4+ years of experience in Product Owner, Business Analyst, Customer Service and Relationships, IT, or related field

Preferred Qualifications

If we had our say, we'd also look for:

• 4+ years of experience in Product Owner, Business Analyst, Customer Service and Relationships, IT, or related
• Previous Agile experience, SAFe preferred (Scaled agile)
• Experience Acting as a liaison between the Business Partners, BT
• Serves as a knowledgeable resource to obtain answers to business-related questions for the BT partners;
• Ensure all questions/issues/legal and risk requirements are resolved prior to release; work with BT to develop post-installation validation task list; ensure all business validation occurs successfully.
• Demonstrated ability to coach, manage change, collaborate across groups, develop people and influence the organization.
• Good written, oral and presentation skills.

Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, among other things, or as a qualified individual with a disability.