Sr. Product Owner

Overview

Position: Sr. Product Owner - Encompass/Lending Optimization

Salary: $135K - $155K/yr d.o.e.

Location: Remote OK - If living within 31 miles of Tustin, CA or Austin, TX will need to be able to work a hybrid schedule

Overview:

The Senior Product Owner partners with our product managers to assess value, develop cases and prioritize stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy.  While the Product Manager leans more strategic in nature, the Senior Product Owner should be execution focused and work to prioritize user stories and technical enablers that drive to the overall delivery of the prioritized features.   They have a strong foundation in the underlying technologies and cloud services and act as subject matter experts for the products that they build.  As a key member of the Scrum team, they will define clear user stories that articulate the functional needs and acceptance criteria while helping the Team to focus on Feature delivery.  The Sr. Product Owner has strong collaboration with Engineering, QA, Product Management, and Design and works to deliver an execution roadmap to deliver to commitment.

**** Encompass Experience Required*****

Responsibilities

• Work with other product teams, Engineering, and other stakeholders to understand various needs, use cases, and required integrations with Encompass and prioritize requests based on business impact, compliance needs, risks, effort, etc.
• Create the product roadmap and drive development in alignment with priorities and according to end user needs.
• Be the SME for Encompass within the organization, function as the Encompass POC for other product managers/owners for informational and integration needs and collaborate to understand problems and identify effective solutions.
• Work with Engineering and QA to ensure optimal integrations with Encompass by various platforms, applications, websites within the NAF ecosystem and by 3rd party vendors and partners that work with NAF.
• Help maintain the health of Encompass-related APIs and address any defects and production issues promptly.
• Work in agile environment and continuously review business needs with product manager.
• Translate product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including User Stories, dependencies, and delivery plan. 
• Prioritize and maintain the backlog for products, balancing requirements of stakeholders and engineering team throughput.
• Work collaboratively with Engineering and Quality Assurance to ensure understanding of Vision and value proposition.
• Articulates a clear Sprint goal for every sprint.
• Partners with Scrum Master and Engineering to help drive team improvements.
• Builds and maintains a running 2-3 sprints worth of work.
• Monitoring and evaluating product progress and ensures that the product delivery plan is up to date.
• Working with product designers and product managers in development of user stories.
• Plays an active role in mitigating impediments to ensure successful completion of Release/Sprint Goals.
• Support scrum master in daily scrum activities.
• Fluent Agilist with ability to grow collaboration, commitment, and transparency.
• Partners with Product Manager and Engineering Leadership along with Stakeholders to craft MVP and future releases.
• Partner with Engineering to address Production issues.
• Refine our Agile methodology based on result and feedback.
• Partner with other Product Owners to grow organizational capability and maturity.
• Assisting with QA when needed.
• May take on Product Management activities on smaller or newer efforts at times.
• Ability to grow in business domain knowledge and awareness.
• Process centric and seeks to help mature organizational processes.
• Communicates releases, sprint commits and presents product updates and demonstrations to executive leadership and stakeholders.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or Engineering or equivalent and at least five years’ experience in managing or owning custom developed products.

Background and experience working with APIs and backend services preferred.

Familiarity and/or experience working with Encompass required.

Hands on Agile Experience as a Product Owner.

Good organizational skills.

Strong Communication skills and team mentality.

Strong Technical and delivery acumen with solid understanding of software development and Product Lifecycle management.

5+ experience in a product owner or equivalent role

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