Product Owner, Sr

Overview

Old National Bank has been serving clients and communities since 1834. With over $70 billion in total assets, we are a regional powerhouse deeply rooted in the communities we serve. As a trusted partner, we thrive on helping our clients achieve their goals and dreams, and we are committed to social responsibility and investing in our communities through volunteering and charitable giving.

 

We continually seek highly motivated and talented individuals as our people are critical to our success. In return, we offer competitive compensation with our salary and incentive program, in addition to medical, dental, and vision insurance.  401K, continuing education opportunities and an employee assistance program are also included in our benefit suite. Old National also offers a variety of Impact Network Groups led by team members who are passionate about driving engagement, creating awareness of diverse backgrounds and experiences, and building inclusion across the organization.  We offer a unique opportunity to join a growing, community and client-focused company that is firmly rooted in its core values.

Responsibilities

We are currently seeking a Senior Digital Technical Product Owner that is a member of a business-focused IT team and plays a lead role in many areas of product development for the digital platform of the community bank, such as business strategist, business architect, tech lead, product designer, customer advocacy and project management.  This is a crucial role in developing a strategic roadmap for delivering digital solutions to the Community Bank’s line of business through the skilled application of knowledge, analysis, and technology.  Working closely with business stakeholders, this role manages business request intake, technical solutioning, and the strategic planning of information technology resources in ways that help maintain and drive our current and future business success.  This is a technical role that requires understanding of the ins and outs of digital experience, application design and development, agile framework, scrum practices, and technology infrastructure. The Senior Product Owner is responsible for mapping the most complex business requirements to appropriate technical solutions across a wide range of Old National Bank business line functions.  Possessing specialized in-depth knowledge of digital technologies in various disciplines, the Senior Product Owner uses their skill set to bridge the gap between business-related issues and IT.  The Senior Product Owner leads others in the documentation of existing business needs to ensure IT solutions support and align with business initiatives as well as prioritized backlog for digital initiatives. A strong passion to continuously improve the digital user experience is required as this role will work to turn ideas into deliverables and valuable business solutions.

 

Key Accountabilities

Facilitate enhancements in line with changing business needs in digital client experience

• Create and foster partnerships with internal stakeholders to develop an expert knowledge base of the business, including needs and opportunities specifically related to digital platform solutions .
• Work with business sponsors to determine strategic and complex business requirements necessary to increase efficiency and functionality of software/applications that power the digital client experience
• Partner with the product manager on digital backlog, product roadmap & execution of digital platform product objectives
• Create, maintain, and prioritize user stories and maintain a product backlog, owns sprint progress, completed stories & epics.
• Lead delivery, such as new features, defects, including providing the decision to create, fix or defer at the project level, directing technical teams and partnering with cross-functional teams as needed to ensure success.
• Construct and coordinate development processes and ensures that teams are clear on work priorities.
• Guide and train others in the concept and processes of product management.
• Strong executive-level client-facing skills, and able to clearly communicate complex technical solutions in a manner that business lines can easily understand.
• Develop and cultivate relationships with vendors and external industry contacts; work closely with vendors to ensure third party applications operate as documented.

Support and Manage Current Digital Applications for Community Banking

• Build a strong cross functional understanding of both the company’s product and business operations.
• Provide superior customer service to external/internal clients, including response to incidents, proactively notifying customers of issues and communicating business