Product Owner

Location: Pittsburgh, PA Hybrid (3days onsite)

Duration: 6 months (extendable contract)

Need local candidate only

You will have an impact in following ways:

Defining and prioritizing product backlog, collaborating with stakeholders to gather requirements, and working closely with development team to ensure the successful delivery of the product.
Managing the product backlog and near-term roadmap ensuring that it is properly refined, prioritized and groomed.
Owning user stories, refinement process and Stakeholder Management (ongoing collaboration and updates)
Writing specs for minor features and contribute meaningfully to specs for major features.
Negotiating the implementation of current work, make the right trade-off decisions to launch products in a high-quality manner. Escalating to management as necessary.
identifying and triaging issues with specific features, whilst understanding how multiple features are interrelated and catch more complex problems.
Defining proper measurement and instrumentation for a product to analyze results post-release/launch.
Partnering with manager to make recommendations on the right next steps for the feature.
Assessing the quality of existing UX to make recommendations on how to improve user experience.

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:

5-7 years product experience, 5-10 years of financial services experience
Possesses curiosity to ask the hard questions, explores new ideas, and continuously learns and researches to meet goals.
Strong communicator & Influencer
Possesses a “get-it-done” attitude – ability to get around roadblocks and stay focused on the vision.
Organized, resourceful, and able to prioritize tasks.
Has an interest in constantly learning new tools and technologies and a passion to share your knowledge with the team.
Experience working in an agile environment.
Bachelor's degree in business management or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required.

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