Product Owner

The Product Owner works on a cross functional team to create meaningful and simple experiences for their product’s customers. They own the direction-setting, discovery, and prioritization of customer wants and needs. A PO-I typically is new to the role of Product Owner, and as such likely manages products with limited scope and impact.

The Product Owner role is highly collaborative working closely with several key partners. The Product Owner articulates, translates, and executes the Product Manager’s long-term strategy and vision of the product through tactical strategies and solutions to drive necessary business outcomes. This requires the right alignment and regular, transparent communication to ensure both roles deliver on their goals.

Additionally, the Product Owner works closely with stakeholders, end users, and functional and technical team members to rapidly deliver quality solutions to customers.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Demonstrates a strong understanding of core product fundamentals, including product definition, customer personas, value proposition, and roadmap development.
• Collaborates with the Product Manager to decompose strategic initiatives from product roadmap into Epics, Features and user stories, ensuring it reflects both short-term deliverables and long-term vision.
• Collaborates with customers and stakeholders to refine product features, user stories, and acceptance criteria while identifying and managing impacts and dependencies.
• Partners with development and scrum teams, to prioritize and maintain the product backlog ensuring all prioritized work is clearly tied to business value.
• Build trusting partnerships with stakeholders, establishing continuous feedback loops to ensure evolving needs are met in alignment with strategic goals
• Maintains awareness of market trends and engages with customers and technical teams to evolve the product in alignment with strategic priorities.
• Acquires and applies advanced knowledge of how the product integrates within the broader organizational ecosystem, including related business processes and experiences.
• Exhibits resilience and a problem-solving mindset, embracing ambiguity and overcoming obstacles to achieve product and organizational goals.
• Facilitates cross-team collaboration to identify interdependencies and align product roadmaps and sprint plans across multiple teams.
• Partners with Scrum Masters to plan and execute agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, reviews, product demos, and retrospectives.
• Ensures delivered solutions are aligned with key performance indicators (KPIs) that measure product effectiveness, and to communicate these metrics regularly to stakeholders and business leaders.
• Maintains visibility into team progress toward sprint goals and prioritized features and collaborates with Scrum Masters to communicate changes in priorities, status updates, risks, escalations, and accomplishments to both leadership and development teams.

No direct personnel supervisory responsibility, however, supervises large complex product teams with cross-functional team members.

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:  

 Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; master’s degree preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in product ownership or product management in a technical space.
• Deep understanding of agile methodologies and experience leading agile teams.
• Strong knowledge of product lifecycle management, including product definition, customer personas, value proposition, and roadmap development.
• Experience with backlog management tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps) and agile planning ceremonies.
• Ability to translate strategic initiatives into actionable features and user stories with clear business value.
• Ability to prioritize work against enterprise, division, and product strategies. Can effectively communicate rationale and impact for prioritization choices
• Experience developing and tracking KPIs to measure product performance and discovery effectiveness.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and influence skills among all organizational levels; strong facilitation and executive communications skills

 Preferred: 

• Experience working on Mainframes
• Demonstrated ability to understand and assess the current state of legacy systems, including their architecture, dependencies, and limitations, to inform modernization strategies and integration planning.
• Strong leadership skills to coordinate and motivate product teams, even outside direct reporting relationships
• Demonstrated experience with user interface design and best practices for usability
• Experience working in large, complex organizational initiatives
• Advanced skills in MS Office Suite with particular emphasis on Excel and PowerPoint

Pay TransparencyThrivent’s long-term growth depends on attracting, rewarding, and retaining people who are committed to helping others thrive with purpose. We accomplish this by offering a wide variety of market competitive compensation programs to attract, reward, and retain top talent. The applicable salary or hourly wage range for this full-time role is $112,481.00 - $152,180.00 per year, which factors in various geographic regions. The base pay actually offered will be determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to, location, relevant experience, skills, and knowledge, business needs, market demand, and other factors Thrivent deems important.Thrivent is unique in our commitment to helping people to be wise with money and live balanced and generous lives. That extends to our benefits.The following benefits may be offered: various bonuses (including, for example, annual or long-term incentives); medical, dental, and vision insurance; health savings account; flexible spending account; 401k; pension; life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance; disability insurance; supplemental protection insurance; 20 days of Paid Time Off each year; Sick and Safe Time; 10 paid company holidays; Volunteer Time Off; paid parental leave; EAP; well-being benefits, and other employee benefits. Eligibility for receipt of these benefits is subject to the applicable plan/policy documents. Thrivent’s plans/policies are subject to change at any time at Thrivent’s discretion.

Thrivent provides Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any otherstatus protected by applicable local, state, or federal law. This policy applies to all employees and job applicants.

Thrivent is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please let us know by sending an email to [email protected] or call 800-847-4836 and request Human Resources.