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About the Company Do you love a Challenge? Are you Passionate about technology? Are you customer obsessed? Looking to innovate? Join NAF Tech! New American Funding (NAF) is a mortgage lender offering an array of loan options. Established in 2003 and headquartered in Tustin, CA, United States. About the Role By having a clear understanding of product requests, collaborating with our product teams and designers, and providing solutions to our business problems, this role will provide insights in our development efforts. We're expecting this candidate to be able to make independent decisions, and use their creativity to solve different problems, and most important of all, have fun with the team here! The Product Owner partners with our product managers to assess value, develop cases and prioritize stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy. While the Product Manager leans more strategic in nature, the Product Owner should be execution focused and work to prioritize user stories and technical enablers that drive to the overall delivery of the prioritized features. They have a strong foundation in the underlying technologies and cloud services and act as subject matter experts for the products that they build. As a key member of the Scrum team, they will define clear user stories that articulate the functional needs and acceptance criteria while helping the Team to focus on Feature delivery. The Product Owner collaborates with Engineering, QA, Product Management, and Design and works to deliver an execution roadmap to deliver to commitment. Responsibilities Work with the Product Managers and other stakeholders to understand NAF’s POS product strategy. Collect and assess various needs, use cases, and required integrations with NAF’s POS system and understand priorities based on business impact, compliance needs, risks, effort, etc. Create the product roadmap and drive development in alignment with priorities and according to end user needs. Be the SME for the POS system within the organization, function as the POC for other product managers/owners for informational and integration needs and collaborate to understand problems and identify effective solutions. Work with Engineering and QA to ensure optimal solutions and integrations with the POS system by both the internal teams and by 3rd party vendors and partners that work with NAF. Help maintain the health of the POS system and ensure support to critical NAF operations and address any defects and production issues promptly. Work in agile environment and continuously review business needs with product manager. Translate product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements Including User Stories, dependencies, and delivery plan. Prioritize and maintain the backlog for products, balancing requirements of stakeholders and engineering team throughput. Work collaboratively with Engineering and Quality Assurance to ensure understanding of Vision and value proposition. Articulates a clear Sprint goal for every sprint. Partners with Scrum Master and Engineering to help drive team improvements. Builds and maintains a running 2-3 sprints worth of work. Monitoring and evaluating product progress and ensures that the product delivery plan is up to date. Working with product designers and product managers in development of user stories Plays an active role in mitigating impediments to ensure successful completion of Release/Sprint Goals Support scrum master in daily scrum activities Fluent Agilist with ability to grow collaboration, commitment, and transparency. Partners with Product Manager and Engineering Leadership along with Stakeholders to craft MVP and future releases. Partner with Engineering to address Production issues. Refine our Agile methodology based on result and feedback. Partner with other Product Owners to grow organizational capability and maturity. Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in management information systems, Computer Science, or Engineering and at least two years’ experience in managing or owning custom developed products. Mortgage industry experience and background working with POS systems required. Hands on Agile Experience as a Product Owner. Good organizational skills. Strong Communication skills and team mentality. Strong delivery acumen with solid understanding of software development and Product Lifecycle management. 2+ experience in a Product Owner or equivalent role Show more Show less
