Product Owner/Product Owner Senior

About the role

The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland seeks a Product Owner or Product Owner Senior to lead the Pay.gov Product Team. This role is part of the nation’s central bank, fostering stability, integrity, and efficiency in monetary, financial, and payment systems.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership in product development, representing the customer's voice during product definition, UI design, and bug triage.
• Rewrites product backlog based on business value and customer needs.
• Develops and implements product offerings and processes to scale the business.
• Collaborates with stakeholders on requirement elicitation.
• Coordinates product development and gathers, analyzes, and prioritizes customer, internal, and partner inputs.
• Identifies new business opportunities and creates appropriate business plans.
• Reviews proposed new market opportunities for consideration.
• Makes decisions regarding product team features and trade-offs.
• Adheres to the Bank's attendance policies through regular and prompt attendance.

Requirements

• Product Owner: Associates degree and 5 years of related work experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 3 years of related work experience OR Master’s degree and 0-1 year of related work experience
• Product Owner Senior: Associates degree and 7 years of related work experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of related work experience OR Master’s degree and 3 years of related work experience

Qualifications

• Experience preparing project plans
• Managing multiple projects simultaneously with competing priorities
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Building and maintaining professional relationships
• Intellectual curiosity and critical thinking
• Problem-solving and entrepreneurial spirit
• Excellent analytical abilities and detail orientation
• Certified Scrum Product Owner
• Knowledge of Agile Product practices and Scrum and Agile Software Development Methodology

Benefits

The Cleveland Fed offers benefits to support overall health and financial security. Learn more about our benefits here: https://www.clevelandfed.org/careers

Pay

Product Owner: $90,500 - $113,100 annually
Product Owner Senior: $100,300 - $125,400 annually

Schedule

This position is full-time and regular.

Skills

• Knowledge of Agile Product practices and Scrum and Agile Software Development Methodology

Location

Cleveland, OH, Columbus, OH, Cincinnati, OH, or Pittsburgh, PA

Physical Demands and General Working Conditions

Includes sitting, standing, walking, reaching, handling, and lifting up to 25 pounds. May require occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, crouching, and crawling. Must be able to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing. Must be able to operate a computer and other office equipment.

Reasonable Accommodation Statement

The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. To request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an email to clev.4d.benefits.specialist@clev.frb.org.

Bank’s Ethics Rules and Drug Testing

As a condition of employment, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland employees must comply with the Bank's ethics rules which generally prohibit employees, their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children from owning or controlling, directly or indirectly, any debt or equity interest in a depository institution or an affiliate of a depository institution. A "depository institution" means a bank, a trust company, or any institution that accepts deposits, including a bank chartered under the laws of a foreign country. In addition, employees (and their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children) may not own shares of mutual funds, unit investment trusts or ETFs that have a policy, as stated in the prospectus, of concentrating in the financial services industry and that have underlying investments in banks or other depository institutions. If you or your spouse/domestic partner or minor child own such securities and would not be willing or able to divest them if you accepted an offer of Bank employment, you should raise this issue with the recruiter for this posting. In addition, as a condition of employment, candidates must undergo a background check and will be tested for all controlled substances prohibited by federal law, to include marijuana, prior to hire and for certain safety sensitive positions during employment.