Product Owner

Are you a Product Owner looking to join one of the top companies in the Banking Industry?

Are you looking to further your career and grow?

Do you have experience in business, analytical, technical, and product?

If you answered yes to those three questions, then apply today!

Acara Solutions seeks highly qualified candidates to work ON-SITE with our client in Buffalo, NY. Interested?

Here's what you'd do:

• Serves as owner for an assigned product or set of products by representing the voice of the customer and stakeholders to ensure that the product provides value to the customer, while aligning with the business strategy.
• The Product Owner defines their product vision and roadmap, prioritizes the product backlog, anticipates client needs, and is the primary communicator between product stakeholders and teams while evaluating product progress at each iteration.
• In addition, the Product Owner plays a key role in the company's strategic direction, defining and articulating new opportunities, and working in close concert with key stakeholders, including senior leadership and their dedicated agile team.
• Build and own the product vision and roadmap that aligns with the overall strategic intent and communicate them with the team and all stakeholders.
• Prioritize the backlog based on the overall product vision and strategy.
• Represent the customer's voice within the team and convey story details to the team; make autonomous decisions quickly and thoughtfully to move delivery forward in alignment with the overall product vision and strategy.
• Write user stories and groom the backlog in partnership with the team.
• Specify acceptance criteria for each user story in support of moving the team to Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD).
• Work directly with the delivery team to create appropriate information radiators and other communication tools for internal team and stakeholder use.
• Participate in all team activities and ceremonies.
• Use a matrixed influencing approach to work with essential business partners throughout the organization, irrespective of hierarchy or divisions, advocating for the customer's benefit.
• Understand and engage with your customers.
• Focus on outcomes over outputs, incorporating design thinking methods and analytics to inform product design.
• Collaborate across teams and with other Product Owners to align the customer journey and dependent backlogs.
• Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls per the Company's Risk Appetite.
• Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
• Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the client's brand.
• Maintain client internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points and any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.
• There is no direct management responsibility, but as an individual contributor, the job holder manages activities through influence, accountability, and ownership, functioning in an agile environment.
• The Product Owner will work directly with the assigned Agile/tech team to plan, prioritize, and deliver cloud data infrastructure, secure file transfer, and related work that support a new vendor cloud-hosted SaaS implementation.
• The product owner will also work directly with stakeholders on requirements gathering to support the team's work.

Here's what you'll get:

Pay: $40.92 - $68.19 / hr.

Hours: 40 hrs/Week.

Length: Contract (18 months).

Sound like a good fit?

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About Acara Solutions

Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.

• Bachelor's Degree with 4 years of experience.
• Prior experience prioritizing across competing priorities and a quickly changing landscape.
• Prior experience actively seeking out multiple opinions, yet making independent decisions and influencing positive outcomes.
• Understanding of Design Thinking principles.
• Knowledge of basic product design and development best practices.
• Knowledge of Agile and Lean principles and practices.
• Experience working in partnership with user experience teams on product design.
• Experience developing/managing digital capabilities.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Specific subject matter expertise as needed by the assigned product.
• Experience with Agile delivery (Scrum preferred) in a Product Owner role.
• Experience with vendor cloud-hosted SaaS and cloud data environments (Azure).
• Commercial banking experience (lending, servicing).
• Have a good technical background.

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check and a drug screen.
• In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.