Product Owner
Job Description
Product Owner opportunity for Intone Networks’ digital product team in Torrance, CA (onsite).
Responsibilities
- Own responsibilities across the full software development life cycle for both projects and production support.
- Drive product grooming sessions and capture requirements with acceptance criteria.
- Assist with prioritization and sizing of work.
- Prepare and perform user acceptance testing (UAT).
- Write and execute well planned test scripts for UAT; support other testing workstreams with triage and testing result reporting.
- Write clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Support launch activities and triage issues during warranty.
- Lead the Product team and act as a subject matter expert for the Salesforce and mobile app environments.
- Support nationwide operations for customers, dealers, and the field, including the chat line and inbox, training, and organizational change management.
- Provide customer, field, and stakeholder communications; assist with field training and demos.
- Work with Business and IT teams to document process flows and status reports.
- Partner with CX, business, development, and testing resources to imagine, write, deliver, and test user stories.
- Lead initiatives by meeting with leadership to articulate options, proposal plans, and budgets to gain approvals.
- Maintain production operations to meet SLAs across payments batch, deployments, maintenance and vendor releases, platform releases, incident management and troubleshooting, and license/cost/vendor management.
- Lead agile spring planning, demos, retrospectives, and backlog management.
What you will be working on
- Improve products through large projects, enhancements, and production support for:
- Client and Acura Finance websites
- Client Finance mobile app (launch channel to support payments)
- Agent service console and agent knowledge
- Customer communications and Marketing Cloud platform
- Web channel: support client Finance and Acura Finance customers and expand self-service functionality to manage accounts online.
- Mobile app channel: enable customers to make payments easily (new channel launching soon).
- Agent service console and agent knowledge: support customer service representatives with tools to serve requests and knowledge summarizing standard operating procedures.
- Customer communications via message center, email, SMS, web notifications, banner notifications, and partner managed messages; care and feeding of technical platform and templates.
Requirements
- Customer facing product experience
- Payments excellence
- Roadmap and decision making
- People skills and platform strategy
- BA/BS degree
- Agile certification for Product Owner or Scrum Master (prefer SAFe Agile)
- Salesforce certifications (preferred); or ability to gain Salesforce admin certification by year 1
- Minimum 3 years experience
Experience overview
- 3-5 years of product management, product development, or product operations experience with customer-facing, Fortune 500 digital products
- 3-5 years of leadership experience managing mixed teams (business/IT; internal/external; onshore/nearshore/offshore)
- 1-2 years of roadmap and business planning experience
- Experience driving procurement: identifying options, evaluations, and RFI/RFP selection of tools and vendors
- 1-2 years of direct leadership experience managing associates (preferred)
- 2 years of payments, financial services, or captive finance industry experience
- Mobile app experience (preferred)
Technologies
- Salesforce
- Mobile app
- SAFe Agile
- Salesforce admin certification
- Salesforce certifications
- Marketing Cloud