JOB DESCRIPTION:
Product Owner is at the center of delivering new products and driving innovation on platforms that improve customer experience, meet customer needs, and create business value while prioritizing "what" the team is working on to deliver value to the customer. Responsible for maximizing the value of the product resulting from work of the Team.
Responsibilities include:
- Builds product backlog, prioritizes its items to achieve Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and continuously keeps it up to date.
- Collaborates with cross functional teams to support go-to-market strategies.
- Articulates requirements (regulatory, contractual) into use cases, agile stories, and acceptance criteria to ensure compliance.
- Creates and validates user story acceptance criteria.
- Breaks work into multiple iterations to deliver value continuously with each iteration building on the value of the previous iteration.
- Inspects and evaluates product progress through each iteration.
- Maintains key product documentation (e.g., customer journey map, technical specs, process mapping, etc.).
- Understands and ensures product features and processes align with applicable Discover regulatory, compliance, and risk management standards.
- Ensures product adheres to the highest quality standards, including releasing security patches not linked to customers.
- Contributes to the product development and vision by connecting how customer solutions support business goals.
- Works with Data stewards in their respective LOBs to ensure required Data quality controls are identified and implemented.
- Manages and communicates scope, deliverables, timelines of projects and/or plans through storyboarding and structing complex information visually.
- Leads Agile practices (sprints, planning, execution, and retros) Holds meetings with the product team to continuously update product backlog.
Must haves:
- 4+ years of Agile Coaching, Release Train Engineer, or Scrum Master Experience
- Advanced Microsoft Office Skills: PowerPoint, Word, Excel
Nice to have:
Education:
Bachelor's degree