Bank Agile Product Owner Senior (Fraud)

Why USAA?

At USAA, our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products, exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families.

Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA, where our core values – honesty, integrity, loyalty and service – define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful.

The Opportunity

Looking for a Senior Product Owner to join Bank Financial Crimes to support the Fraud Operations team in delivery of IT work on behalf of our stakeholders and members. Join a team of over 30 delivery teams working every day to deliver impactful change in the Fraud area of Bank Financial Crimes. Joining an Agile team whose mission is: To provide the best Agile Change experience to all our stakeholders and members by providing compliant, flawless & innovative execution services that reflect our team’s brand, creative minds & company mission.

Works directly with the Bank agile team to prioritize work to derive business outcomes while delivering on Bank agile team commitments and ensuring the voice of the customer is strongly represented. Accountable for making decisions and prioritizing the Bank agile team backlog to drive business outcomes in service to the Business strategy. Acts as ‘voice of the end-user’. Brings a data-driven approach to decisions and impediment removal including strategic priorities and funding allocation. Sets product / value stream direction and ensures it is aligned with key stakeholders across the organization. Establishes a Bank agile team culture routed in transparency and learning, for seeking opportunities for testing & learning, continuous Bank agile team/process improvement and quality.

This position can work remotely in the continental U.S. with occasional business travel.

What you'll do:

• Accountable for communicating and driving the vision and strategy effectively to key stakeholders and Bank agile team members. Ensures delivery of quality product and member experience solutions through collaboration with stakeholders to determine business needs.
• Responsible for working closely with the Team-of-Teams Lead to assist in clarifying and driving alignment on the business strategy, goals, and objectives. Translates this understanding into a clear vision for the Bank agile team to inform the creation and prioritization of the Bank agile team’s backlog of work.
• Partners with Team-of-Teams Lead to define and clearly communicate acceptance criteria for output based on business requirements and customer needs.
• Anticipates and solves complex issues using a data-driven approach to decision making including allocating funds and developing and tracking Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) that drive Bank product success. Delivers against Bank agile team level OKRs.
• Acts as “voice of the end-user”.
• Proactively seeks customer feedback to learn and better understand their needs and requirements to ensure end user value is delivered to the marketplace.
• Owns Bank agile team backlog (grooming, prioritization, and refinement).
• Responsible for maintaining a groomed backlog of user stories; works with the Agile Bank agile team to estimate story size and complexity.
• Optimizes the flow of value through the multi-Bank agile team Agile environment and progresses towards objectives, goals, and commitments, while removing impediments, resolving conflicts, and managing risks and issues.
• Begins to take a strategic view and think proactively about the right way to meet objectives.
• Acts in service of the Bank agile team's needs and goals; offer feedback on work-in-progress, clarifies requirements, anticipates and removes roadblocks or impediments that may prevent the Bank agile team from progressing on objectives and answers questions.
• Looks for opportunities for continuous Bank agile team and process improvement. Makes recommendations to leadership.
• May lead functional Bank agile teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity.
• Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

What you have:

• Bachelor’s degree; OR 4+ years of related experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree.
• 6+ years of experience in process improvement, project delivery, business/requirements analysis or directly related to supported business operations/product line.
• Knowledge of multiple technical software delivery methodologies (i.e., Agile, Waterfall, SAFe).