Senior Product Owner
Job Description
Context: This hybrid role partners business stakeholders with delivery teams to turn product strategy into prioritized work in an Agile environment.
Responsibilities
- Own, prioritize, and maintain the product backlog, keeping it aligned to business strategy, customer needs, and organizational objectives.
- Translate product vision into actionable requirements by breaking epics into user stories, defining acceptance criteria, and setting sprint goals.
- Work with development teams across the Agile lifecycle to provide direction, clarify requirements, resolve issues, and support successful delivery.
- Lead sprint reviews and product demonstrations, communicating progress and collecting feedback from business and technical stakeholders.
- Collaborate with Product Managers to refine product roadmaps and support product launch and adoption strategies.
- Use market research, customer insights, and data analytics to identify opportunities, recommend enhancements, and drive digital product innovation.
- Manage operational support: prioritize issue resolution and evaluate business process and system impacts to optimize the user experience.
- Drive data, reporting, and automation initiatives while ensuring compliance, security, and effective information governance across business functions.
- Additional responsibilities may be added as business needs evolve.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience driving digital transformation initiatives, enabling and optimizing digital business processes, executing strategic product roadmaps, and delivering solutions in an Agile Scrum environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Marketing, Engineering, Communications, or a related field.
- Ability to analyze complex information, identify trends and opportunities, and deliver innovative solutions using both data-driven insights and business judgment.
- Strong analytical and technical skills to identify root causes, resolve issues efficiently, and share knowledge and best practices for continuous improvement.
- Effective communication with diverse audiences through clear verbal and written communication; supports collaboration, confidentiality, and diverse perspectives and feedback.
- Build strong partnerships across teams; influence stakeholders without direct authority; balance individual and team objectives; promote accountability and engagement.
- Thrives in dynamic environments by embracing change, driving process improvements, and demonstrating resilience with a focus on quality and operational excellence.
- Sound business judgment, understanding of organizational and market impacts, alignment with strategic objectives, and a consistent commitment to ethics and professionalism.
- Overtime required on an as-needed basis.
- Travel: 0-10% on an as-needed basis.
- Must have reliable transportation and live within commutable distance to: Atlanta, GA; Dallas, TX; or Detroit, MI.
Technologies
- Agile Scrum
- Agile
- SAFe Agile
Qualifications Preferred
- Experience working within Agile and/or SAFe Agile frameworks.
Schedule & Work Environment
- Hybrid position.
- Ability to work various shifts to meet business needs.
- Typically 8AM-6PM, Monday through Friday, and on weekends as needed.
- Travel required 10% of the time.
- Noise level is usually moderate.
Physical Demands
- Regularly required to sit for long periods of time.
- Use hands and arms to operate office equipment including keyboard, mouse, and phone.
- Occasionally reach, stoop, stand, or walk.
- Ability to see (close vision), hear, speak, and communicate verbally.
- Occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
Work Authorization
- Applicant must be authorized to work in the United States.
- Stellantis Financial Services, Inc. will not sponsor work visas for this position.