Product Owner & Project Manager

About the Role

We are seeking a Product Owner / Project Manager to own both the product and planning sides of technology initiatives, translating business processes into structured, buildable requirements, and planning and coordinating the work needed to deliver against them. This on-site role in our Dallas office is split roughly evenly between product ownership and project management.

Responsibilities

• Requirements Gathering and Analysis: Partner with stakeholders to elicit, document, and structure requirements, translating business needs into clear specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria. Apply use-case and scenario analysis where needed.
• Enterprise-Wide Elicitation: Gather and reconcile requirements from across the organization, driving clarity in complex or thinly documented processes.
• Backlog Management: Build and maintain a prioritized backlog with clear, actionable tickets and specifications for the development team.
• Prioritization: Prioritize features based on business impact, feasibility, and resource availability.
• User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Support: Plan and coordinate UAT to ensure product quality and alignment with business requirements.
• Project Planning: Develop and maintain project plans, including scope, milestones, timelines, and charters.
• Resource Allocation: Map people and capacity to planned work, coordinating across teams to keep initiatives resourced and sequenced.
• Dependency & Timeline Management: Identify and track cross-departmental dependencies to keep timelines realistic.
• Status Reporting: Produce regular, concise updates for stakeholders and leadership.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Maintain strong communication to secure input, time, and sign-offs.
• Continuous Improvement: Enhance tools, workflows, and processes for efficiency and scalability.
• User Advocacy: Act as the voice of the user, ensuring their needs are reflected throughout the product lifecycle.
• Training and Adoption Support: Support feature rollouts with training and documentation for smooth adoption.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 3–5 years of experience in business analysis, product ownership, and project planning on technology-driven projects.
• Working knowledge of structured requirement-gathering methodologies (e.g., use-case analysis, UML, BPMN, IIBA/BABOK practices).
• Ability to plan projects, allocate resources, and manage timelines and dependencies across multiple stakeholders.
• Proficiency in tools like Jira, MS Project, and Excel.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills for effective stakeholder interaction.
• Ability to write clear specifications and manage a prioritized backlog independently.

Qualifications

• Business analysis, product owner, or project management certification (e.g., IIBA, CSPO, CAPM/PMP) preferred.
• Experience in commercial real estate highly preferred; mortgage lending or commercial banking experience valued.
• Familiarity with Microsoft technologies, Salesforce, Snowflake, and Microsoft Fabric a plus.

Pay

ACORE Capital offers a competitive salary and bonus commensurate with experience.

About ACORE Capital

ACORE Capital, LP is one of the largest credit managers focused on commercial real estate lending, with a people-first culture and over 100 professionals across multiple offices. For more information, visit https://www.acorecapital.com/careers.