Principal Product Owner - Riverwoods, United States - Discover Financial Services
Description
Discover. A brighter future.With us, you'll do meaningful work from Day 1.
Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors:
We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together.
And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies.
We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.
What You'll Do
The Product Professional is r esponsible for partnering with stakeholders to define the product vision at the team level while prioritizing "what" the team is working on to deliver value to the customer.
Assesses the performance of and shapes the structure and direction of new/existing product lines and develops or assists in developing and executing strategic product plans.
Assists the team in achieving specific goals for each product, including evaluating product performance, and identifying innovations to deliver business value and address customer needs to improve the product's performance.
Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.How You'll Do It
Builds product backlog, prioritizes its items to achieve Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and continuously keeps it up to date.
Participates in the development of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for the product team and ensure alignment with senior leadership (e.g., SPO, Dir, etc.).
Interacts and collaborates with stakeholders on key product considerations and aligns with product vision, features and roadmap.
Leverages customer insights, feedback, financials, compliance, and risk data to define product features and roadmap in partnership with other SMEs.
Contributes to defining the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and responsible for delivering MVP/ features/user stories for delivery product roadmap; in-line with the Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) of the greater product vision outlined by SPO and/or Business Director is the final decision maker for product scope.
Defines and ensures appropriate testing frameworks for product features (e.g., market testing, functional performance, etc.) Works with Data stewards in their respective LOBs to ensure required Data quality controls are identified and implemented.
Inspect and evaluate product progress through each iteration.
Partners with business technology to create technical features that are required to continuously optimize system components and underline infrastructure maintenance.
Identify sources, monitor, analyze (Business Analysis), test, and interpret key product performance metrics including financials, network volumes, other key statistics, and internal/external customer feedback trends, industry trends, research findings, and competitive innovations then develop and communicate findings, and make strategic and tactical recommendations for performance improvements throughout the product lifecycle.
Builds a culture of accountability and ownership by empowering the product team to make decisions as close to the work as possible.
Serve as business lead on cross-functional teams and assist in managing dependencies with other team's functions while identifying, building, and managing strategic partnership across different product teams.
This includes collaborating to develop or support efforts of go-to-market strategies.Qualifications You'll Need
The Basics
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Business Administration and Management, Finance, Mathematics, Economics, Statistics or related
6 + years of experience in Product Management or Engineering experience in Financial Services or Tech Industry, or related
In lieu of a degree, 8 + years of experience in Product Management or Engineering experience in Financial Services or Tech Industry, or related
Bonus Points If You Ha
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