Product Owner

Title: Product Owner

Location: Hybrid – ST Louis MO

Duration: Contract

Visa: USC / GC

Responsibilities

· Serve as the product owner on one of the App modernization development team, supporting projects on web applications in the Research Department, such as FRED, ALFRED and others. Main area of focus will be on technical modernization and 508 compliance of FRED website.

· Manage and prioritize backlog related to app tech modernization projects, change the order of items in the prioritized list of requirements as needed to maintain a cohesive vision regarding the product.

· Maximizing the value produced by the team and ensuring stories meet the user's needs and comply with the Definition of Done.

· Providing clarification necessary to assist the team with their story estimates and sequencing including writing requirements, refining user stories, planning stories into sprints.

· Work with the development team to inspect and evaluate product progress through each iteration. Gather information and provide results to team to determine performance level and readiness to move on to next steps in the product roadmap.

· Collaborate with other agile teams on cross teamwork dependency.

· Participate in all pre-planning, stand-up, backlog refinement, reviews, retrospectives, roadmaps, and other meetings as requested.

· Build release plan and confirm feasibility and estimate efforts of projects with respect to business objectives and report to product manager.

· Track progress towards the desired outcomes for web applications. Work with team to identify and organize the steps required for each iteration in product development.

· Collaborate with business owners on production deployments and testing needs.

· Promptly provide written status updates to the Bank, as requested.

Qualifications

· Bachelor's degree or commensurate experience.

· PMP, Scrum, and Agile certifications preferred.

· 3+ years' relevant experience in a role requiring technical acumen.

· Demonstrated experience in an Agile work environment utilizing Scrum methodologies and Agile tools (Digital.ai or similar).

· Demonstrated experience in quickly developing an advanced understanding of current business processes and products.

· Strong analytical and writing skills including solid experience in writing functional specifications.

· Advanced ability to communicate and collaborate effectively and confidently with users, team members, program management and stakeholders.

· Skilled at establishing and maintaining organizational relationships with a diverse group of people, in a combined virtual and in-person environment.

· Perform as a flexible, dependable self-starter capable of gathering information quickly and applying it to projects.

· Experience working with economic information preferred.