Product Owner

As a Product Owner at loanDepot in Irvine, CA, you will act as the business owner and strategic steward for assigned products, capabilities, or functional areas. In this onsite role, you will guide work from discovery and requirement definition through delivery support, adoption, and continuous improvement, partnering across business, operations, technology, compliance, analytics, and third parties to drive measurable outcomes aligned to goals and regulatory obligations.

What You’ll Own

• Own and manage one or more business capability domains, products, or functional areas.
• Translate business strategy into actionable initiatives, requirements, and delivery priorities.
• Create and maintain business requirements, functional requirements, process documentation, workflow diagrams, use cases, and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain traceability between business objectives, requirements, decisions, and delivered functionality.
• Create, maintain, and prioritize product backlogs based on business value, risk, dependencies, regulatory considerations, and strategic objectives.
• Refine epics, features, user stories, functional requirements, and acceptance criteria to support delivery teams.
• Define key performance indicators, success measures, data needs, and reporting requirements for assigned capabilities.

How You’ll Work

• Partner with stakeholders to understand business objectives, operational challenges, customer needs, and improvement opportunities.
• Facilitate decision-making and resolve competing priorities across stakeholder groups.
• Drive alignment among business, operations, technology, compliance, analytics, and vendor partners.
• Lead discovery sessions, workshops, interviews, and working sessions to gather and validate business requirements.
• Analyze current-state processes and define future-state solutions that improve efficiency, quality, customer experience, and scalability.
• Identify business impacts, dependencies, risks, controls, and opportunities for process improvement.
• Create visual process maps and other artifacts to communicate requirements, decisions, and solution approaches.
• Balance short-term delivery execution with long-term product and capability objectives.
• Use business data, operational metrics, and user feedback to support prioritization, recommendations, and decision-making.
• Partner with business intelligence, analytics, and technology teams to develop dashboards, operational reporting, and business insights.
• Support planning, estimation, testing, release preparation, and implementation activities as needed.
• Support user acceptance testing, business validation, training, and operational readiness activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred, and/or five (5) + years of experience in Product Ownership, Product Management, Business Analysis, Process Improvement, Technology Delivery, or related disciplines.
• Three (3) + years of experience within mortgage banking.
• Experience defining, documenting, and validating business requirements, functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and process flows.
• Experience facilitating stakeholder workshops, discovery sessions, requirements sessions, or cross-functional working groups.
• Experience partnering with business and technology teams to deliver solutions.
• Strong coaching, consultation, and advisory skills.

Compensation and Benefits

• Salary range: USD 93,000 - 154,000 per year.
• Competitive compensation package based on experience, skillset, and overall fit.
• Inclusive, diverse, and collaborative culture where people from all backgrounds can thrive.
• Extensive internal growth and professional development opportunities, including tuition reimbursement.
• Comprehensive benefits package including Medical/Dental/Vision.
• Wellness program to support both mental and physical health.
• Generous paid time off for both exempt and non-exempt positions.