Senior Product Owner – Continuous Delivery

CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. Even with more than 8,500 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you.

CLA is dedicated to building a culture that invites different beliefs and perspectives to the table, so we can truly know and help our clients, communities, and each other.

Our Perks:

• Flexible PTO (designed to offer flexible time away for you!)
• Up to 12 weeks paid parental leave
• Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Mental health coverage
• Quarterly Wellness stipend
• Fertility benefits
• Complete list of benefits here

CLA is growing and seeking to hire an experienced Senior Product Owner – Continuous Delivery to join our talented Information Technology team. The position offers growth, flexibility and a collaborative work environment.

In this position you should have the following; excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate at all levels. Strong problem solving and creative skills and the ability to exercise sound judgment. Most important, demonstrate a high level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency and results-orientation.

The Sr. Product Owner (Continuous Delivery) drives product delivery and strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer needs. This role involves collaborating with business owners, product owners, leadership, engineering, architecture, and UX teams to adapt the product to scale to a firm-wide audience. They develop requirements, prioritize the product backlog, and lead Agile ceremonies. The Sr. Product Owner leads their product’s continuous delivery, collaborate with the continuous discovery team, leads product scaling, alignment, technical integration and manage dependencies. They monitor product performance, analyze production issues, collect feedback, and address gaps to ensure quality and timely delivery.

How you’ll create opportunities in this Senior Product Owner – Continuous Delivery role:

• Collaborate with the continuous discovery team, product leadership, engineering, and architecture leadership to define the solutions, scaling strategy, and delivery approach. Define the product delivery outcomes and requirements for the engineering and architecture teams.
• Partner with the product discovery team to develop the product requirements document (PRD) and other necessary product artifacts. Decompose and adapt product requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Author, plan, and prioritize the product delivery backlog, epics, features, and user stories to ensure alignment with the product strategy and objectives. Analyze product and technical dependencies and work with cross-functional teams to prioritize external dependencies for delivery.
• Lead the Agile team toward achieving and exceeding OKR/KPI targets. Partner with the program/project manager to establish delivery milestones and dates.
• Synthesize ideas, user feedback, learnings, and insights into the opportunities backlog to inform product discovery and the implementation backlog for delivery. Identify and manage product risks, assumptions, and constraints to ensure successful project execution and alignment with strategic objectives.
• Lead and participate in Agile ceremonies, including program increments (PI), sprint planning, Inspect & Adapt, demos, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Evaluate and track product performance (KPI), collect and interpret feedback after production, prioritize this feedback, conduct necessary investigations, and draft requirements to address any identified improvement opportunities and gaps. Ensure product deliverables meet quality standards and are delivered on time.

What you will need:

• 4+ years of experience in product management, with a proven track record of successful product delivery is required.

• Bachelor's degree or a combination of relevant experience and training