Product Owner

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with Engineering, Governance, Data, and Product leadership to execute the vision and roadmap for Kestra's enterprise data platform, including reporting, analytics, and data product capabilities.
• Develop a deep understanding of Kestra's data strategy, source systems, and end-to-end data workflows to inform backlog prioritization and delivery.
• Develop a deep understanding of Master Data Management as a technology discipline, and how it is being implemented at Kestra to drive the team’s execution.
• Translate business and analytical needs into clear, actionable backlog items for scrum teams, focusing on data ingestion, data model enhancements, platform modernization, and data product development.
• Break down large-scale data initiatives - such as adding new data sources or building shared data assets - into manageable user stories and work with technical leads to ensure readiness for implementation.
• Prioritize features, enhancements, and enablers in the data product backlog based on business value, technical dependencies, and PI commitments.
• Facilitate backlog refinement sessions and maintain a well-groomed, continuously evolving backlog that reflects current priorities and team capacity.
• Participate in design and architecture discussions to ensure solutions meet analytical needs, support reusability, and align with data governance and quality standards.
• Act as the primary liaison between business users, data analysts, data engineers, and developers to ensure consistent understanding and delivery of business needs.
• Coordinate dependencies and share learnings across the Product Owners and teams to support enterprise alignment across the data ecosystem.
• Collaborate with the release manager and QA to support production deployments and communicate release notes to business stakeholders.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or related field; equivalent work experience will be considered.
• 3+ years of experience as a Product Owner or Business Analyst supporting data platforms, enterprise reporting, or analytics solutions in an Agile environment.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-based data platforms, ideally within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem (e.g., Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Data Lake) and Databricks.
• Strong familiarity with data warehousing concepts, data ingestion processes, and data product lifecycle management.
• Proficient in using product and collaboration tools such as JIRA and Confluence for backlog management and team communication.

Internal Application Policy

Internal applicants must be in good standing and have a minimum of 1 year of service with Kestra. Internal applicants must also have a minimum of 1 year service in current role unless approved by EVP.

Benefits to support you

• Competitive pay and benefits with a large employer (over 1600 employees nationwide)
• 401(k), health insurance, and a competitive benefits package

Kestra Values

• Serve
• Make it Happen
• One team

Disclosure

By applying to a job at Kestra Financial, Inc., you are agreeing to the following statements:

• You acknowledge that if hired, Kestra Financial, Inc. may, obtain and use background information concerning your credit, character, general reputation, personal characteristics, work habits, performance and experience for evaluation for your potential employment.
• It is the policy of Kestra Financial to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
• Kestra Financial prohibits any such discrimination or harassment.