Product Owner – Data
Candescent
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Atlanta • California • United States
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About the role
- Deliver product outcomes and functionality that meet customer and user needs
- Translate product vision and insights into prioritized features and user stories, developed by their agile team of 8–10 members
- Collaborate with clients and Product Managers to identify and prioritize requirements for enhancements to the Banking Platform
- Work with the Product Advisory Council, participating in user group discussions and presenting both strategic and tactical functionality
- Release planning, product roadmap maintenance, and backlog grooming for assigned Candescent Banking Services initiatives
- Define specific functions, integration requirements, user experiences, and deployment strategies for delivery to both the company and market
- Develop, shape, and refine user stories, problem statements, and acceptance criteria to ensure efficient and effective team consumption
- Collaborate with the broader product organization to ensure integration across all Candescent Digital Banking Technology products
- Work closely with the development team to ensure that delivered products meet specified requirements and are delivered on time and within budget
- Drive understanding of the work to be completed by the development team, supporting effective sprint sequencing and incremental delivery
- Participate actively in scrum ceremonies such as sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, and demos
- Maintain functional quality by setting and evaluating expectations and acceptance criteria
- Present and train internal customers on new platform features and services released in each version
- Prepare explanatory documentation for customers on existing and new platform functionality
- Document business requirements using the company's software development tools and methodology
- Collaborate with the Product Manager to manage product profitability and performance, ensuring alignment with short- and long-term product objectives and roadmaps
- Gather customer and user needs, along with market research, to inform the product vision and strategy created by the Product Manager
- Use the product vision and insights to define product features and prioritize the team’s backlog
- Demonstrate a deep understanding of customers and users through the development of insights, including personas, journey maps, and product charters
- Participate in PI (Program Increment) planning to prioritize the roadmap and inform team backlogs
- Write and prioritize user stories based on business needs, user requirements, and technical feasibility
- Continuously refine the product backlog by analyzing value versus effort
- Define acceptance criteria and validate that features and stories meet user quality standards
- Drive product development in collaboration with cross-functional teams and engage stakeholders (e.g., PMs, other POs, functions) to manage dependencies and resolve issues
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of experience in the finance industry, preferably with large-scale digital, online, or mobile banking applications for consumers or small businesses
- Strong understanding of complex business and technical problems
- Proven experience delivering software products through the definition, design, and release cycle
- Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies throughout the software development lifecycle
- Familiarity with industry standards such as PCI, WCAG, and FFIEC
- Strong leadership, project management, time management, and problem-solving skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Deep understanding of user and business needs to create and prioritize user stories that deliver value
- Ability to prioritize based on business value, user impact, and technical feasibility
- Strong experience with databases, data lake and data warehousing systems
- Strong knowledge of data governance standards and processes
- Hands-on experience of SQL, ETL, data flow, and DB schema design
- Experience with modern data platforms and data solutions (e.g. Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery) on clouds (e.g. AWS, GCP)
- Ability to have in-depth technical discussions with engineering teams on end-2-end data flow, schema design, solution, scalability, performance, reliability, and security
- Solid understanding of data analysis with statistical methods or AI/ML
- Experience with data visualization tools like Looker, Tableau, QuickSight, or Tableau for building and communicating insights
- Experience taking data products from inception to launch in the fintech, banking, payments, or financial services area is a big plus.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Remote work options
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Hard Skills & Tools
AgileScrumSQLETLdata flowDB schema designdata governancedata analysisAIML
Soft Skills
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