Senior Product Owner (Corporate Loans) - ICONMA, LLC
Phoenix, AZ
About the Job
Description:
- Senior Product Owner dedicated to Capital Markets Technology initiatives and projects responsible for maximizing the value for corporate deal execution business.
- Key responsibilities include defining 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.
- This role works closely with stakeholders to understand their needs and Technology Development Team in a scaled Agile model to ensure there is an evident alignment.
- They are experienced in the role of a Product Manager/Owner, expert of the product, and have a deep understanding of the business or technology domain
Responsibilities include:
- 12+ years of experience in corporate loans execution/settlement applications
- Working knowledge of Fixed income HY Bonds and how it contributes to Syndicate corporate loans is an advantage
- Gain an in-depth understanding of Capital Markets applications, how they are used by the business and how applications fit into the overall deal workflow.
- 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 C-Suite stakeholders and business teams and drives user adoption.
- Collaborates with stakeholders to understand their needs, problems, and aligns them on priorities.
- Creates and prioritizes features/epics in the program backlog; empowered to make decisions about trade-offs with emerging work versus planned work
- Creates and prioritizes work for 1-3 teams.
- Experienced with cross-functional teams.
- 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.
- Providing application training and demonstrations
Qualifications
- BA or BS degree in information technology or computer science from an accredited 4-year university
- MBA or MS degree preferable.
- Experience in Accessibility and an understanding of WCAG guidelines, is an advantage.
- Knowledge and experience of Capital Markets/ New Issue/ Primary Markets (stocks, bonds, Loans) requires approximately 8-10 years BA experience at a leading financial services organization.
- Experience working directly with the front office, ideally in a trading floor environment, is strongly preferred.
- A solid understanding of bond and syndicated loan fundamentals is mandatory.
- Experience with capital markets and the syndication process is a plus.
- Experience in presenting complex technical information succinctly to non-technical audiences.
- Ability to lead the user experience design of large-scale platform and to reason about the challenges and tradeoffs.
- Experience in partnering with scrum masters, product, and program management team.
- Agile skills to write quality User Stories, effectively prioritizes the backlog/work items, defines acceptance criteria and aligns business stakeholders on priorities.
- JIRA and Confluence.
- Experience working as part of a global team is a plus
- BI Tools experience is helpful, MS Office, Visio, MS Project, SharePoint
Source : ICONMA, LLC