Product Owner III, Collateral

Benefits Overview

A career at CoBank can offer you the opportunity to make a personal impact on the people and communities where we do business. In order to be the best, we hire the best!

Remarkable Benefits Offered by CoBank

• Careers with a purpose
• Time-Off Packages, 20 days of vacation, 10 paid sick days and 11 paid holidays
• Competitive Compensation & Incentive
• Hybrid work model: flexible arrangements for most positions
• Benefits Packages, including Medical, Dental and Vision coverage, Disability, AD&D, and Life Insurance
• Robust associate training and development with CoBank University
• Tuition reimbursement for higher education up to $10k per year
• Outstanding 401k: up to 6% matching and additional 3% non-elective contribution
• Community Impact: United Way Angel Day, Volunteer Day and Associate Directed Contribution
• Associate Resource Groups: creating a culture of respect and inclusion
• Recognize a fellow associate through our GEM awards

Job Description

Responsible for supporting the Product Manager in the execution and delivery of CoBank's capabilities, customer and associate experiences. Partners and develops relationships with stakeholders to align with business strategy and quickly respond to opportunities. Effectively prioritizes the Agile Team backlog, within the SAFe Agile framework, to deliver the most valuable initiatives for the Bank and its customers. Is responsible for building the backlog of work deliverables in Azure Dev Ops by decomposing prioritized Features into the detailed User Stories for their Agile delivery team. In partnership with the Product Manager and Scrum Master, identifies, assesses, arbitrates and resolves conflicts and/or variances between functional group sub-processes and customer requirements. Oversees work process standardization, documentation, optimization and scalability. Preferred specialization: Collateral.  Familiarity with Collateral Management including UCC filings, title protection, etc.  Database analysis and migration experiences.  Strong technical acumen.

Essential Functions

• 1. Manages planning and delivery of key themes, through translating and decomposing Features and User Stories. Works with Agile Delivery teams to organize and prioritize work efforts through Planning Intervals (PI).
• 2. Serves as a strategic thought leader and drives Agile team PI objectives with business outcomes and success metrics, design thinking, customer feedback and competitive analysis.
• 3. Works with and assists Product Manager in the identification and establishment of the desired future state, development of a strategic roadmap relating to E2E processes, data, supporting features & functionality, controls required to ensure dependability, scalability and defensibility. Works with Leadership to communicate desired future state across relevant CoBank departments, functional and sub-process groups.
• 4. Crafts user stories for the enterprise capability, working directly with the delivery teams to deliver value.
• 5. Works across team to ascertain, review and address the effectiveness and optimization challenges, and works with Leadership and across the governance structure to mitigate and resolve risks and issues relating to: associate engagement, behaviors, knowledge and skills, organizational priorities and/or dependencies, change and process improvement challenges.
• 6. Interfaces with 3rd party vendors and contractors, where required, to deliver necessary pieces of our technical product with time-to-market excellence.
• 7. Collaborates cross-functionally to coordinate and manage resources and activities maximizing impact and overall return on investment.
• 8. Maintains awareness and understanding the market and farm credit’s niche landscape in order to maintain competitiveness. Ensures product compliance with bank policies and regulatory standards. Maintains expertise regarding competition, best practices and benchmarks.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree required

Work Experience

• 5 years of experience in financial industry, required
• 5 years of experience with Platform/ Program/ Product Management/Consulting, required
• SAFe POPM and SAFe APM certification
• Deep experience working with Technology, Data, UX/UI
• Using narratives to convey complex ideas and inspire action.
• Applies deep experience with collecting and analyzing data through user research, usability testing, and other quantitative and qualitative approaches.
• Proficiency in using analytics tools to measure key performance indicators (KPIs) related to user engagement, conversion rates, and overall product success.
• Strong experience with conversion rates, bounce ra