Day-to-day:
Insight Global is seeking a Digital Product Owner for a Big 5 banking client. This role focuses on executing and delivering on an established roadmap for a digital business banking product, ensuring successful partner and technology integration with the platform. This role will be 20% strategic roadmap development and requirement gathering, and 80% agile delivery. You will lead agile teams through the development lifecycle and ensure timely delivery of high-value features.
Key Responsibilities
- Roadmap Execution: Drive delivery of features and enhancements according to the established roadmap, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with business stakeholders to clarify requirements and provide updates on delivery progress.
- Product Backlog Ownership: Maintain and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring the development team focuses on the most impactful items.
- User Story Development: Write and refine user stories and acceptance criteria for clarity and completeness.
- Agile Ceremony Leadership: Actively participate in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and sprint reviews to guide the team and remove impediments.
- Quality Assurance: Validate completed work against acceptance criteria and approve deliverables that meet quality standards.
- Performance Monitoring: Track sprint progress and delivery metrics, reporting on outcomes and identifying improvement opportunities.
- Continuous Feedback Loop: Collect input from users and stakeholders to inform backlog refinement and future iterations.
- Risk Mitigation: Identify delivery risks early and implement solutions to keep development on track.
- Team Support: Provide leadership and support to the development team, fostering collaboration and resolving blockers.
Must-Haves:
- 3-5+ years of experience in digital product ownership
- Experience working on digital applications
- Experience within financial institutions/bank
- Proven track record of delivering value with small, cross‑functional teams
- Experience leading an agile team & strong understanding of agile methodologies
- Ability to write clear, structured user stories in an agile environment
- Confluence and JIRA
- Understanding of technical requirements for digital products
- Ability to translate technical language into clear business language (and vice versa)
- Understanding of systems architecture
- Entrepreneurial mindset with strong ownership of product outcomes
- Strong stakeholder management skills
Plusses:
- Business banking experience
- Previous Business Analyst (BA) experience
- Regulatory project experience
- AML/KYC experience Credit card/lending product experience
Vacancy: This posting is for a currently vacant role, and the successful candidate will be hired into an existing open position.
Pay Rate: $70-78/hr
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