Agile Product Owner

About the role

The Agile Product Owner at Regions represents business stakeholders to elicit, understand, analyze, document, refine and communicate business needs, facilitating the creation of effective solutions for business and technical delivery teams.

Primary Responsibilities

• Partners with sponsors, stakeholders, and IT to define and document relevant business processes, understanding needs, measures, and risks.
• Works with management and other stakeholders to understand and validate business strategy and customer needs.
• Independently works on medium to large complexity efforts, or supports senior or lead roles on larger projects.
• Manages and tracks benefits, adoption, and risks for operations.
• Reviews and prioritizes feedback and new requirements from stakeholders.
• Accepts or declines development outputs to ensure specified acceptance criteria are met.
• Provides just-in-time story elaboration to designers, business analysts, developers, testers, and others to align with program and/or product roadmaps.
• Serves as the content authority on an Agile team by maintaining a prioritized backlog and providing business guidance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business, or a related field with 7+ years of relevant experience in process improvement, project delivery, business/requirements analysis, or business operations/product line.

Preferences

• SAFe Practitioner (SP), SAFe Agilist, or SAFe Product Owner/Manager certification.

Skills and Competencies

• Effective prioritization and task execution under pressure.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
• Experience in Process Engineering methodologies and Change Management practices.
• Familiarity or working knowledge with multiple technical software delivery methodologies (i.e., Agile, Waterfall).
• Proven ability to utilize data and analytics to formulate recommendations, solve business problems, and drive business improvements.
• Strong customer service orientation.

Pay and Benefits

This position is exempt from timekeeping requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not eligible for overtime pay. The target pay range for this position is $116,332.70 USD to $148,960.00 USD, with a median of $148,960.00 USD. Benefits include paid vacation/sick time, 401K with company match, medical, dental, and vision benefits, disability benefits, health savings account, flexible spending account, life insurance, parental leave, employee assistance program, associate volunteer program, and more. For more information, visit this link.

Location

The position is intended to be onsite, now or in the near future. Associates will have regular work hours, including full days in the office three or more days a week. The manager will set the work schedule for this position, including in-office expectations. The locations available for this role are Birmingham, AL, Atlanta, GA, and Charlotte, NC.