Product Owner

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Job Description:

The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value for a product and will define the vision and roadmap for the product, defining and prioritizing stories in the product backlog, and articulating this to both stakeholders and the development team.

Responsibilities:

• Works closely with stakeholders to understand their needs, and with the Product Manager in a scaled Agile model to ensure there is alignment.
• Gain a working knowledge of the product, and basic understanding of the business or technology domain.
• With some guidance, creates the vision and roadmap for the product to align with strategic direction for the business or technology domain. Communicates the product vision and roadmap to stakeholders and the team.
• Collaborates with stakeholders to understand their needs and problems.
• Creates and prioritizes work for one team. Learning to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• With some guidance, creates and prioritizes stories in the product backlog. Refines stories with the team to ensure there are enough ready stories to load the next 1-2 sprints.
• Reviews and accepts stories and is empowered to make on-the-spot decisions on scope and requirements.
• Works in partnership with the team to ensure that optimum value is obtained through technology and through an advanced understanding of the business.
• Individual contributor.

Required skills:

• Agile product owner experience or SAFe certification
• Organizational skills to enable agile ceremonies including daily standups-, elaboration and iteration demonstrations
• Communication skills to gather requirements from stakeholders and facilitate story elaboration
• Creative thinking to resolve roadblocks and work within organizational constraints
• Custom software development product ownership experience

Desired technologies:

• Jira Software experience for backlog management and board configuration
• Reporting tools such as Tableau or Cloudera Data Visualization (CDV)

This job will be open and accepting applications for a minimum of seven days from the date it was posted.

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