Senior Product Owner – Transaction Posting System

Charles Schwab is hiring a Senior Product Owner to drive the Transaction Posting System within the Trading Application Platform Strategy and Support (TAPSS) group, bridging business needs and engineering execution.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously groom the product backlog, keeping it prioritized, refined, and ready with at least 2 sprints planned for engineering
• Create clear user stories including acceptance criteria, technical enablers, and definition-of-done so engineering teams can execute without ambiguity
• Collaborate daily with engineering, QA, architecture, and SRE across sprint planning, backlog refinement, standups, demos, retrospectives, and release readiness reviews
• Act as the real-time decision-maker for scope, requirement clarifications, and trade-offs during sprint delivery
• Lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT) including test planning, scenario design, coordination with business testers, defect triage, sign-off, and production release readiness
• Triage defects and production issues, partner with engineering to reproduce and resolve, prioritize fixes against roadmap work, and communicate status to stakeholders
• Translate trading, clearing, settlement, and posting business workflows into requirements and stories, ensuring teams understand the why behind the what
• Work with business stakeholders, operations, downstream consumers, and upstream feeders to gather requirements, validate designs, walk through mockups/flows, and confirm outcomes
• Coordinate across a large multi-team product group to align on dependencies, sequencing, integration points, and cross-team stories
• Promote practical, responsible use of GitHub Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and other approved AI-enabled tools across the SDLC, including story authoring, acceptance criteria generation, test case creation, documentation, defect analysis, and release notes, while validating outputs for accuracy and appropriateness
• Support adoption of AIDLC (AI-Driven Development Life Cycle) practices with engineering to embed AI-enabled tooling into requirements, development, testing, and support workflows
• Maintain product documentation, decision logs, and knowledge artifacts in Confluence/SharePoint as a single source of truth
• Drive execution to completion by removing ambiguity, forcing decisions, escalating blockers, and maintaining sprint commitments and quality

Requirements

• Currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without employer sponsorship now nor in the future
• 6+ years of experience in product ownership, business analysis, application development, or related technology delivery roles
• Proven experience leading UAT cycles: planning, coordinating business testers, triaging defects, and driving sign-off and release readiness
• Strong technology background, such as experience as a developer, engineer, architect, QA, or deeply technical BA/PO, with credibility engaging in system design, APIs, data, and integrations
• Demonstrated domain knowledge of trading, brokerage operations, post-trade processing, transaction posting, clearing, or settlement
• Track record driving stories from concept through production in a large, multi-team product organization
• Strong story-writing and acceptance-criteria discipline, with rigor in backlog grooming and sprint execution ownership
• Experience partnering with engineering to triage and resolve defects and production issues
• Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, Rally, or equivalent Agile delivery tools
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Teams, SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook

Technologies

• GitHub Copilot
• Microsoft 365 Copilot
• Confluence
• SharePoint
• Jira
• Rally
• Microsoft Office
• Teams
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Word
• Outlook

Benefits

• 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time for vacation and volunteering
• 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions
• Paid parental leave and family building benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Health, dental, and vision insurance

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree/master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Finance, or equivalent work experience
• Hands-on experience in AIDLC (AI-Driven Development Life Cycle) practices
• Knowledge of crypto trading, digital assets, or crypto books-and-records
• Experience with Schwab (or comparable brokerage) trading platforms, transaction posting systems, books-and-records, or downstream trading consumers
• Experience with SQL, APIs, message-based integrations, or reading logs to support requirements and defect triage
• Familiarity with CI/CD, test automation, and observability practices as they relate to Product Owner responsibilities
• Experience working across large product groups with multiple scrum teams, shared services, and platform dependencies
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills to align engineers, business partners, and senior leaders around shared priorities and decisions
• Ability to simplify complex technical and business trade-offs and drive decisions in ambiguous, fast-moving environments

Location: Southlake, TX; Austin, TX; Westlake, TX (onsite). Salary: USD 160,000 - 175,000 per yearly.