Senior Product Associate

• Drive proactive engagement on projects by involving team members and key stakeholders to facilitate conversations and deliverables that impact the overall card lending Product Roadmap.
• Partner with Area Product Owners and product team for ongoing refinement of product backlog and execution of the product roadmap.
• Define and present strategy for features, write epics, user stories, acceptance criteria and participate in all agile events of the product group as a team member.
• Ensure timely execution of Production Validations, conducting lessons learned and Business Requirement, generating pertinent process maps/flows as applicable. Understand the environment(s) in scope and serve as a Subject Matter Resource.
• Collaborate with interfacing teams/ partners to evaluate dependencies, Requirements and Schedule. Understand client need and client use of the platform and dependencies to Capture and Viewers.
• Conduct elaboration sessions to solicit requirements as needed to refine the requirements and customer ask. Writing Epics, Stories, Testing Conditions/ scripts, validation criteria, communication plans and release planning.
• Identify, communicate and escalate risks, blockers, and impacts that could delay the quarter by quarter delivery of projects. Act as voice of the customer and drive product vision
• Manage existing product features and actively lead the research definition and development of new features to advance the product roadmap

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• 3+ years of experience in a Business Analyst or Product Analyst role with Agile methods, process & execution
• Requires experience developing business requirements, writing stories, working knowledge for creating testing conditions, use cases and validation criteria
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, and self-directed.
• Collaborative and a high level of comfort and effectiveness in coordination roles; working with multiple business and technology partners to drive transparency in project deliverables.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite. Specifically, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Working experience using tools like Visio and Figma

• Working knowledge of Agile process and principles, including use of Agile project management tools (i.e. JIRA etc)

Preferred

• Ability to learn on the move, self-paced, mentor, or thru execution.
• Sharp analytical, problem-solving and leadership skills
• Attention to detail and ability to manage continuously shifting business priorities

• Working knowledge of Credit Cards or Banking domains will be an added advantage.