Product Owner

Job Description

We are looking for folks with a minimum of 10 years of professional experience with at least 3 years as a Product Owner and hands on experience with Pega.

Candidates will be responsible for driving product strategy, managing the backlog, and ensuring the successful delivery of features that meet business and customer needs. This role bridges business stakeholders, development teams, and leadership, translating requirements into actionable user stories and acceptance criteria. It plays a key role in Agile delivery, roadmap planning, backlog prioritization, and ensuring high-quality, timely product releases while continuously improving team velocity and product value.

The Product Owner oversees new product and feature enhancements, planning and directing activities to ensure the timely development and delivery of reliable and efficient solutions to business requirements, and developing acceptance criteria to validate that the resulting product meets customer requirements.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate dependencies with other POs and work across teams to define and implement improvement stories that will increase the velocity and quality
• Work with other POs and leadership to help shape the product vision and enumerate high-level priorities
• Act as liaison between stakeholders and the team
• Drive product delivery through keen understanding of the customer, mission, and product requirements
• Develop the team roadmap and support the team as needed to deliver on commitments
• Communicate with other Product Owners and Scrum Masters, program leadership, customers, and development teams
• Work in Agile methodology, write product requirements/Epics/user stories in ADO, and ensure story Readiness and Acceptance Criteria
• Working with UX/UI and getting designs updated for upcoming sprints
• Manage product backlog – Manage, adjust for risk, and prioritize product backlog with the focus on execution for at-least 2 sprints
• Backlog refinement – Lead backlog refinement to deconstruct, refine and estimate stories, add acceptance criteria and enable long range technical planning
• Be available for the team in all Scrum ceremonies meetings including standups, retrospectives, and demos
• Lead the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities
• Partners with stakeholders to resolve production and implementation issues in a timely manner and supports/drives escalations where required to enable rapid delivery
• Drives value to the business by building, managing, and maintaining Product Backlog(s)
• Builds a Product Backlog and reviews it with business owners to determine business value and to assign priority
• Provide coaching to team members who are new to Scrum and Agile practices
• Act as a liaison between the team and management as well as a liaison between the team and the customer/end users

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Business Administration, Information Technology, Management or related fields or the equivalent combination of education, training, or experience
• 3+ years of experience functioning in a fast-paced Product Owner
• Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), SAFe Product Owner Product Manager (POPM) or equivalent PO certification
• Strong leadership experience with focus in project management and scheduling
• Demonstrated experience implementing and executing Agile principles with strong digital and technical skills
• Agile software development lifecycle knowledge
• Desired – Experience in software development using .Net and modern web frameworks
• Desired – Experience with software development and/or QA testing
• Highly desired – Experience with Azure DevOps (ADO)
• Highly desired – Experience in mortgage industry
• Highly desired – 3+ year experience working with Pega
• Desired – Pega Business Architect Certification (PCBA)