Product Owner

Lead digital product management and Product Owner work to turn technology governance, risk, and compliance requirements into shipped capabilities for a financial services client.

Responsibilities

• Translate approved governance and control requirements into product capabilities, backlog items, acceptance criteria, and release priorities
• Own and evolve the product backlog: manage, prioritize, and refine to align business goals with compliance needs
• Write clear user stories and acceptance criteria for engineering delivery
• Use Agile and Scrum practices to support sprint planning, reviews, demos, and ongoing delivery cadence
• Track delivery progress, adjust priorities, and communicate product status to stakeholders
• Collaborate across technology, risk, compliance, audit, and business teams
• Perform compliance and risk checks to confirm product features meet internal and regulatory requirements
• Design and support technology control procedures and improvements to process design
• Manage product dependencies across teams, systems, and delivery timelines
• Support internal and external audits and related governance activities
• Oversee data acquisition and quality assurance activities
• Create product analytics and insights to support data-driven decision-making
• Ensure development follows SDLC standards and release governance
• Drive product capabilities tied to patching and vulnerability management

Requirements

• Hands-on experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or Lead Digital Product Manager
• Experience converting approved governance and control requirements into product capabilities, backlog items, acceptance criteria, and release priorities
• Strong experience with Agile and Scrum methodology
• Experience converting requirements into a prioritized backlog
• Experience writing user stories and acceptance criteria
• Strong process design and product management skills
• Experience in Technology Governance, Risk, and Compliance
• Experience with technology control procedure design
• Solid understanding of SDLC
• Proficiency with Jira
• Ability to monitor progress and adjust priorities
• Strong stakeholder collaboration and communication skills
• Experience managing and prioritizing backlogs
• Experience participating in reviews and demos
• Experience supporting sprint planning
• Ability to perform compliance and risk checks
• Experience in product dependency management
• Experience supporting audits and governance
• Experience with data acquisition and quality assurance
• Ability to generate product analytics and insights
• Hands-on experience with patching and vulnerability management products

Technologies

• Jira

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in financial services or another highly regulated environment
• Product Owner or Agile certifications such as CSPO
• Experience supporting large-scale technology governance and control programs

Location: Irving, TX 75015 (hybrid)
Compensation: USD 50–55 per hourly
Job Type: contract