Product Owner-HR Systems

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Working at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York positions you at the center of the financial world with a unique perspective on national and international markets and economies. You will work in an environment with a diverse group of professionals to foster and support the safety, soundness, and vitality of our economic and financial systems.

The Bank believes in work flexibility to balance the demands of work and life while also connecting and collaborating with our colleagues in person. Employees can expect to be in the office a couple of days per week as needed for meetings and team collaboration and should live within a commutable distance.

What we do: 

People & Engagement (P&E) partners with senior leadership and business groups to advance and support the Bank’s culture of excellence by inspiring and motivating colleagues with diverse backgrounds and perspectives. The Group achieves this through progressive people strategies and modern employee experiences that attract and retain top talent and helps everyone pursue continuous growth and meaningful work at the Bank.

Your role as a Product Owner-HR Systems: 

As a Product Owner within People & Engagement, your daily focus may shift with business needs, but you’ll be expected to demonstrate proficiency in four key areas:

Product Strategy and Vision

• Defining and communicating a clear product vision and respective roadmaps with measurable outcomes that are aligned with strategic objectives.

• Working with technology partners to ensure integration to the Bank technology roadmap.

• Working with delivery squad(s) to design and deliver new or complex products and capabilities.

• Designing and integrating usability studies and research into product requirements to enhance user satisfaction, ensuring a customer driven design.

Product Management

• Managing the backlog of product enhancements and ensuring continuous flow of user stories for the development team.

• Defining and maintaining a clear product roadmap, outlining key milestones, timelines, upcoming releases, prioritizing product backlogs, and deliverables for the development and enhancement of P&E systems.

• Understands the lifecycle of a product and defines what to develop as new features, what to maintain, what to improve, and what to retire regarding their product.

Stakeholder Management

• Effectively build relationships, influence/drive decision-making, and become a trusted advisor.

• Represent the voice of the customer and advocate for their needs throughout the product lifecycle.

Agile Practices

• Partner with Scrum Master and technical teams to enable Agile way of working through Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and Backlog Refinement.

• Capable of translating all the business requirements clearly to the team. This is done by translating requirements into sprint plans and working as a sounding board when making decisions on delivering the actual product.

What we are looking for:

Strong experience as a Product Owner using Lean agile methodologies, preferably with HR Technology.

• Have a Design Thinking Mindset: Personas, Journey Maps, Story Maps, User story writing and Acceptance Criteria

• Expert understanding of Agile Methodologies, preferably certified Agile Product Owner

• Agile and DevOps methodology: Backlog grooming, Sprint Planning

• Experience with consulting, implementing, and product ownership of Human Resource products and tools is preferred.

• Experience influencing and managing cross-functional work streams to execute projects with quality and on-time.

• Experience gathering and translating technical requirements that have clarity for scrum teams to implement.

• Experience integrating systems with third-party service vendors.

• Excellent communication, organization, and planning skills

Salary Range: $144200 – $190700 /per year

We believe in transparency at the NY Fed. This salary range reflects a variety of skills and experiences candidates may bring to the job. We pay individuals along this range based on their unique backgrounds. Whether you’r