Technical Product Owner – Specialty Lending

Lead end-to-end product delivery for technology capabilities that support commercial real estate (CRE) lending and the specialty lending ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Drive delivery team priorities through PI planning, sprint planning, and other agile ceremonies, aligned to the larger experience platform priorities and vision set by product management
• Partner with product managers to articulate product strategy to the delivery team
• Deliver new and improved experiences by collaborating with delivery, experience design, business, and operations partners
• Author and maintain the team backlog of user stories; act as subject matter expert for features, user stories, and product capabilities
• Triage critical issues and communicate consistently with all involved parties
• Serve as key resource to development teams for questions, clarifications, and business validation focused on fitness for use
• Provide leadership updates on epic and feature delivery schedules, including dependencies affecting deliverables and recommended solutions
• Collaborate with solution architects and technical leads to ensure solutions address program priorities while balancing client experience and technical integrity
• Facilitate sprint planning with stakeholder groups to align on feature build timing and visibility; ensure adherence to the product roadmap and enterprise strategic themes
• Facilitate sprint demos and provide final acceptance for completed user stories, ensuring acceptance criteria are met and the work satisfies the team definition of done
• Coordinate creation of release-specific business documents, including support model definitions, go/no-go approvals, internal release notes, and related living documents
• Support Product Management Lifecycle (PML) process and procedures, including security, risk, audit activities; ensure action items and deadlines are met and partner on evidence for recommendations

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, design, or technology (or related field) or equivalent combination of education and professional experience
• 5+ years of banking, financial services, digital, or other relevant work experience
• 3+ years of product, analysis, technology, and/or design experience
• 3+ years of leading cross-functional teams
• Experience defining and delivering digital business initiatives to execute a product roadmap
• Technical acumen and ability to align product and technology roadmaps with the technology organization
• Ability to translate strategic plans into tactical daily actions for execution
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams without formal authority
• Comfort managing concurrent projects in a fast-based, results-driven environment
• Comfort working independently in ambiguous situations and making independent decisions
• Strong analytical skills to interpret data and trends, diagnose problems, and recommend action plans
• Excellent presentation, facilitation, communication, and negotiation skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Agile certifications such as Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM), or SAFe Agilist (SA)
• Experience supporting CRE platforms and lending operations
• Knowledge of construction lending, income-producing properties, investor-owned real estate, and commercial mortgage products
• Expertise in requirements management, business process analysis, and product ownership
• Consulting or business transformation experience and hands-on experience leveraging AI, GenAI, intelligent document processing, automated spreading, financial statement analysis, covenant monitoring, workflow orchestration, and digital lending solutions
• Combine deep lending domain knowledge with modern product management practices to deliver scalable, compliant, data-driven solutions supporting specialty lending capability evolution

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance
• Disability and accidental death and dismemberment
• Tax-preferred savings accounts
• 401k plan
• No less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and full-time or part-time status) during the first year of employment
• 10 sick days (also prorated)
• Paid holidays
• Defined benefit pension plan (eligibility may vary by position and division)
• Restricted stock units (eligibility may vary by position and division)
• Deferred compensation plan (eligibility may vary by position and division)

Job Details

• Employment type: Regular
• Location: Atlanta, GA (onsite)
• Language fluency: English (Required)
• Work shift: 1st shift (United States of America)
• Travel: Minimal and up to 10%
• Availability: Able to work all scheduled hours, including overtime as directed by manager/supervisor and required by business need

Physical Requirements

• Sitting: Constantly (more than 50% of the time)
• Standing: Frequently (25% - 50% of the time)
• Walking: Frequently (25% - 50% of the time)

Work Environment & Equipment

• Visual / audio / speaking: Able to access and interpret client information received from the computer; able to hear and speak with individuals in person and on the phone
• Manual dexterity / keyboarding: Able to work standard office equipment, including PC keyboard and mouse, copy/fax machines, and printers