Full-Time

Product Owner

Posted on 1/24/2025

Discover

Discover

Mid, Senior

No H1B Sponsorship

Wheeling, IL, USA

Category
Product Management
Product
Required Skills
Agile
Product Management
Risk Management

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Degree
Experience
Requirements
  • Bachelors Degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Business Administration & Management, Finance, Mathematics, Economics, Statistics, or related
  • 4+ years of experience in Product Management or Engineering experience in Financial Services or Tech Industry, or related
  • In lieu of a degree, 6+ years of experience in Product Management or Engineering experience in Financial Services or Tech Industry, or related
  • Ability to communicate verbally; Ability to communicate in written form
  • Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator
Responsibilities
  • Builds product backlog, prioritizes its items to achieve Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and continuously keeps it up to date.
  • Maintains key product documentation (e.g., customer journey map, technical specs, process mapping, etc.).
  • Understand and ensures product features and processes align with applicable Discover regulatory, compliance, and risk management standards.
  • Ensures product adheres to the highest quality standards, including releasing security patches not linked to customers.
  • Articulates requirements (regulatory, contractual) into use cases, agile stories, and acceptance criteria to ensure compliance.
  • Creates and validates user story acceptance criteria.
  • Inspect and evaluate product progress through each iteration.
  • Leads Agile practices (sprints, planning, execution, and retros).
  • Holds meetings with the product team to continuously update product backlog.
  • Defines functional and non-functional product requirements; ensures completeness; integral and consistent; source of requirements for product team.
  • Creates and validates user story acceptance criteria.
  • Executes 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.
  • Partners with business technology to create technical features that are required to continuously optimize system components and underline infrastructure maintenance.
  • Manages and communicates scope, deliverables, timelines of projects and/or plans through storyboarding and structuring complex information visually.
  • Contributes to the product development and vision by connecting how customer solutions support business goals.
  • Responsible for delivering Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support go-to-market strategies.
  • Builds a culture of accountability and ownership by empowering the product team to make decisions as close to the work as possible.
  • Partners with vendors and/or cross-functional partners in the evaluation, development, management, monitoring and/or enhancement of assigned products and/or programs.
Desired Qualifications
  • Agile Certification - Certified Scrum Master or Scrum Product Owner
  • Lean Certification (Green / Black Belt)
  • Process Mapping & Management

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