Product Owner

Fidelity TalentSource is your destination for discovering your next contract role at Fidelity Investments. We are currently sourcing for a Product Owner to work in a hybrid environment in Westlake, TX

Fidelity Charitable is looking for a collaborative, team-focused, Product Owner with phenomenal interpersonal skills that can work across the domain and technology departments and digitize manual processes for our donors and advisors, while helping our service delivery partners.

The Product Owner for this team will ensure alignment on the “what” and “when” work is to be performed through ongoing planning and management of a roadmap that serves National Charitable Services, Donor Solutions Product Area. Partnering cross squad dependencies while taking full ownership of the product backlog that enables effective delivery. You work closely with your delivery team, in an agile structure. Engage with squad members to share their input, deliver on sprint commitments, continuously improve, innovate, experiment, learn and celebrate success. Ensure releases are of high quality and implemented seamlessly by ensuring business readiness. You are committed to developing others and yourself to ensure the latest thinking and knowledge is integrated into the culture of the squad.

Fidelity Charitable is the brand name for the Fidelity® Charitable Gift Fund, an independent public charity, established in 1991 with the mission to further the American tradition of philanthropy by providing programs that make charitable giving simple and effective. Since 1991, Fidelity Charitable has helped donors support over 180,000 nonprofit organizations with more than $18 billion in grants.

The mission of Fidelity Charitable Services (FCS) is to be the premier provider of charitable solutions, offering innovative ways to make giving easy and satisfying for our customers. FCS offers the Fidelity Charitable Gift FundSM, the nation's largest donor-advised fund. Since 1991, the Gift Fund has introduced tens of thousands of donors to the benefits — and increased charitable impact — of using a donor-advised fund to meet their philanthropic goals.

This role requires a dedicated, committed, and passionate leader who has experience with:

• Designing and managing electronic trading platforms including algorithmic trading, smart order routing and internalization / matching engine.
• Is proficient in being able to extract and analyze data using SQL and other query languages.
• Passionate about execution quality – being able to define
• Inspire and empower the squad through a shared mission and roadmap that aligns the work they do and the value they deliver to the partners they support.
• Guide the team by serving as the voice of the client/partner towards high value, high quality execution.
• Clearly communicate impediments, progress and results against established objectives and KPIs towards successful delivery of agreed upon business, technology, and people results.
• Collaborate and coordinate with Technology Engineering Management and Scrum Masters to build squad capacity and capability that cultivates a growth mindset
• Make informed trade-off decisions to strike the right balance between quality, cost, and timelines.
• Improve value delivery and delivery excellence from planning through implementation.

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 7+ years of Product Owner experience, IT Product Management experience or technical analyst experience, preferred
• Jira and Jira Align experience preferred
• Roadmap Management - skilled at defining and managing roadmaps that align business, data, and technology objectives by using quantitative and qualitative approaches to understand, sequence and prioritize needs
• Discovery - crafting current/future state diagrams, process flows, use cases that position prioritized areas for delivery success
• Planning – experience planning across teams for dependency alignment and facilitating quarterly planning activities that effectively break down work towards sprint goals
• Backlog Ownership – owns the backlog to ensure epics and stories are clear and concise with well-defined business value and acceptance criteria. Ensure backlog readiness for upcoming sprints
• Quality Execution – attention to detail with unwavering dedication to quality that is not limited to sign off. Ensure business readiness that ultimately delivers a seamless implementation.
• Partnerships - develop positive relationships and champion a collaborative team environment and proficient customer management
• Leadership – demonstrated expertise of leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues without formal authority with a track record of building engaged and empowered teams

• Drive product requirements, prioritization for multiple Squads working closely with key business and technology team members.
• Drive clarity in requirements with a well laid out plan which would require to build deep domain and system expertise.
• Ability to deal with evolving business needs and demonstrate leadership to manage ambiguity.
• Establish, deliver, and refine a product roadmap working closely with key business and technology collaborators across groups.
• Provide thought leadership to identify and pursue new opportunities through an ideation mentality.
• Strong planning and organizational skills, including the ability to manage several work streams simultaneously, while balancing business priorities and quality.
• Demonstrate value driven attitude to influence both business and technology to build consensus around prioritization and planning.
• Working with technology, UX design, architecture and analytic teams to bring best in class results.

Safety is our top priority. Once we can be together in person with fewer safety measures, this role will be moved to our dynamic working approach. You’ll be spending some of your time onsite depending on the nature and needs of your role.

Our aim is to combine the best of working offsite with coming together in person. For most teams this means a consistent balance of working from home and office that supports the needs of your role, experience level, and working style.

Your success and growth is important to us, so you’ll want to enjoy the benefits of coming together in person – face to face learning and training, quality time with your manager and teammates, building your career network, making friends, and taking full advantage of cultural and social experiences Fidelity provides for you.

Company Overview

Fidelity TalentSource is the in-house temporary staffing provider for Fidelity Investments, one of the largest and most diversified global financial services firms in the industry. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds, including technology and customer service, to fill assignments across Fidelity’s U.S.-based regional and investor center locations. If you would like to experience Fidelity’s supportive and collaborative culture while expanding your skill set and developing your professional network, consider a role with Fidelity TalentSource. Apply today at FTSJobs.com.

We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.
Fidelity TalentSource will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, please contact our HR team at HR@ ftsjobs.com.

At Fidelity Investments, our customers are at the heart of everything we do. As a privately held company with a rich 75-year history, our mission has remained the same since our founding: to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients’ money. For information about working at Fidelity, visit FidelityCareers.com.

Fidelity TalentSource's working model blends the best of working offsite with maximizing time together in person to meet associate and business needs. Currently, most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of one assigned week per four-week period (beginning in September 2024, the requirement will be two full assigned weeks).

Fidelity Investments and Fidelity TalentSource are equal opportunity employers.