Product Manager

1 month ago

Illinois, United States Ascensus Full time
Product Owner at Ascensus

At Ascensus, we're passionate about empowering individuals to achieve their financial goals. As a Product Owner, you'll play a critical role in shaping the vision and roadmap for our Retirement, Government Savings, and Health Savings programs.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and maintain the Scrum Team Roadmap to ensure alignment with business objectives.
  • Prioritize and sequence the Backlog to maximize business value and ROI.
  • Communicate the Vision and Goals to the team at the beginning of every Release and Sprint.
  • Represent the customer and interface with stakeholders to ensure seamless collaboration.
  • Collaborate with the Scrum team on new Feature development, including building and maintaining the Product backlog, contributing to/reviewing/approving user stories, sprint support, and UAT testing.
  • Work closely with Business Analysts and Technology teams to create Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) stories and elaborate Epics, Themes, and Features into user stories.
  • Participate in daily Scrums, Sprint Planning Meetings, Release Planning, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
  • Inspect product progress at the end of every Sprint and have authority to accept or reject work done.
  • Maintain relationships with the business and clients to understand current and changing needs.
  • Actively participate in Organizational readiness activities.
  • Serve as the primary point person for updates and feedback internally and externally.
  • Identify and maintain Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to support the team and assigned product.
  • Establish annual goals, objectives, and outcomes for products; track and monitor key performance indicators.
Requirements
  • Undergraduate degree in business or technology-related fields.
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and strong working knowledge of Agile and SDLC methodologies.
  • Minimum 5 years' experience in the assigned business domain: 401(k), IRA, 529, etc.
  • Minimum 5 years' experience as a Product Owner or Technology (Dev or QA) practice.
  • Demonstrated experience implementing and executing Agile principles with strong technical skills.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with high-quality work that adheres to all standards, regulatory, and audit requirements.
  • Strong consultative and well-articulated communication and writing skills with the ability to interact and influence at all levels of the organization.
  • Demonstrated experience with facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, change management, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
  • Naturally curious, detail-oriented, with strong analytic and research skills.
  • Knowledge and/or experience with Confluence, JIRA, Azure DevOps, and Aha; experience in administering these applications is a plus.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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