Product Owner & Business Analyst

JD:

• Manage product life cycle (PLC) from ideation to post-launch and develop product strategy to deliver customer value within timeline and budget.

• Act as the liaison with engineers, Scrum Masters, architects, QA, UX/UI and sales to prioritize the product roadmap to achieve Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).

• Create User Stories and Business Requirement document (BRD) by translating requirements for business and technical team.

• Conduct user interviews, gathered functional, technical and non-functional requirements (NFR) to create workflows, business rules and system integration diagrams.

• Schedule meetings with internal and external stakeholders to reach agreements, craft product vision, discuss portfolio priorities and resolve gaps with cross-divisional product team.

• Collaborate with Product Managers and Systems Architects to define new and enhanced product features.

• Provide updates to leadership on epics and feature delivery schedules, track progress using velocity and burndown charts.

• Evaluate current (As-Is) and future state (To-Be) of business processes and features to perform gap analysis, design prototypes, document pain points and identify potential areas for process improvement.

• Contribute to the creation of user documentation, best practices and training materials.

• Validate use cases of features for each release and publish release notes.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years' experience in banking or financial industry

• Working Payments experience as a PO preferred

• Experience working in an Agile environment and lean methodology

• Strong technical background and the ability to dive into the technical details

• Demonstrated experience problem solving and developing products from scratch

• Experience with bringing together cross functional teams and leading execution in an agile delivery model

• Ability to handle ambiguity and white space.

• Demonstrated examples of building and launching products

• Ability to work on-site (Chicago)