AVP, Product Owner

LPL Financial offers a product-focused environment where you can help shape scalable money movement capabilities. In this onsite role in Fort Mill, SC, you will own a Money Movement product squad’s backlog and partner across business and engineering to deliver outcomes for ACH, wire, check, and real-time payment processing. The position includes an annual salary range of USD 109,283 - 182,104, plus benefits such as 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, and volunteer time off.

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritize the product backlog for a Money Movement squad, including features, epics, and user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
• Lead discovery by conducting stakeholder interviews, journey mapping, requirements gathering workshops, and gap analysis.
• Identify, document, and manage cross-functional dependencies to support timely delivery.
• Maintain delivery practices including backlog refinement, sprint readiness, definition of ready, definition of done, and defect triage.
• Translate business needs into technical requirements and communicate technical solutions to business stakeholders.
• Partner with product management and peer product owners during PI planning to prepare features with defined scope, sizing, and dependencies.
• Define requirements that cover end-to-end user journeys, including edge cases, exception handling, and user-facing outcomes.
• Collaborate with engineering and quality assurance through the software development lifecycle to support successful delivery and adoption.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product ownership or business analysis experience in an agile delivery environment.
• Experience writing user stories with testable acceptance criteria.
• Experience documenting edge cases and non-functional requirements as part of product specifications.
• Experience working within Scrum and/or SAFe delivery frameworks.
• Experience applying and maintaining Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD) practices.

Technologies

• Scrum
• SAFe

Interview Information

• LPL will only communicate with a job applicant directly from an @lplfinancial.com email address and will never conduct an interview online or in a chatroom forum.
• During an interview, LPL will not request any form of payment from the applicant, or information regarding an applicant’s bank or credit card.
• For questions about the application process, contact LPL’s Human Resources Solutions Center at (855) 575-6947.