Director, Product Owner (Wealth Services)

Role & responsibilities

Product Owner Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for end-to-end delivery of products.
• Collaborates with Product Manager, Operations, Engineering, Design and Architects to drive products and features from concept to launch in a fast-paced environment.
• Turns client and data insights into products with actionable outcomes to the ultimate customer.
• Partners with stakeholders and customers across the organization to inform the product vision, strategy, features, and prioritization.
• Assist product manager in developing, owning and executing on product roadmap.
• Works with design and user research to define the user experience, support, and monitoring for customers.
• Works in an Agile environment and continuously reviews the business needs, refines priorities, outlines milestones and deliverables, and identifies opportunities and risks.
• Works with cross-functional teams and various stakeholders, including analytics, design/user experience, engineering, and user enablement.
• Translates product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria.
• Prioritizes and maintains the sprint backlog for assigned products, balancing the requirements of stakeholders.
• Leads the product functional design process based on an intimate knowledge of the users and technology.
• Develops and maintains appropriate tracking and reporting of product performance post-launch to evaluate future investment.
• Adherence to the processes and creation of artifacts required for securing approval of multiple toll gates for releasing code to production. 
• Participate and contribute in building and strengthening of Product Owner Center of excellence.

Product Owner Skills:

• Balance of technical knowledge and business acumen.
• Customer first mind set.
• Proactive, self-starter with excellent project management skills and ability to manage multiple tasks effectively.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage, influence, and inspire partners and stakeholders to drive collaboration and alignment.
• High degree of organization, individual initiative, and personal accountability.

Preferred candidate profile

• 18-25 years of direct product management experience in end user applications in Wealth Management, Broker Dealer, Custody, or Consumer Facing fintech space
• Alternatively, MBA with experience in general management consulting firms (McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Strategy&, Deloitte) within their Financial Services practice or their digital arms focused on Financial Services clients
• Masters degree in engineering, business from Tier 1 schools
• Proven track record of delivering products with a customer-first mindset.
• Established background in launching software or services in partnership with engineering teams and high degree of proficiency in prototyping, iterative development, understanding of Agile principles.
• Experience successfully driving end-to-end delivery of front-end applications including a wide variety of mechanisms, e.g. dashboards, APIs, real time alerts, etc.