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Role Summary
As a Product Owner on the Self-Service Team within the Individual Investors Client Experience (IICX) organization, this role will own continuous improvement and enhancements of experiences and applications around mutual fund transactions and money movement activities such as bank-linking, asset transfers and required minimum distributions. The Product Owner will help define the product roadmap and support the funding transformation agenda.
Reporting to the Senior Product Owner, this role will be accountable for leading a cross-functional team of developers, designers, and analysts utilizing agile methodology to launch omni-channel, client-centric solutions from research and discovery to development and delivery. The Product Owner will be accountable for competitive intelligence and maintaining and executing against a learning agenda to drive continuous improvement of their product. This role will be accountable for business requirements gathering, user stories, user acceptance criteria and other traditional agile PO responsibilities. The Product Owner should command their product and influence stakeholders across the organization to maximize the impact of their product in achieving business objectives.
Responsibilities:
Product Ownership — Partners with various teams such as business teams, legal, compliance, finance, and design to ensure that solutions are compliant, client-centric, in line with brand standards, and contribute to a holistic end to end experience. Establishes or heavily contributes to road map for assigned product(s). Removes impediments and facilitates decisions both inside and outside the core team to ensure a successful product delivery. Elevates product-related issues that cannot be resolved to senior product owner or management for resolution assistance; elevates key product decisions to senior management. The product owner sets the direction for the product and prioritizes what will be included in the business case and each release. Gathers requirements, writes user stories, prioritizes and manages backlog work to inform approach for delivery.
Achieves Business Results —Oversees a cross-functional team, which could include marketing, technology, and design associates. Ensures products meet and/or exceed standards for business performance, client satisfaction, compliance, and operational efficiency by closely monitoring, analyzing, and interpreting the metrics to assess the performance of products against key performance indicators (such as sales, new accounts, lead and referral generation, etc.). Develops and implements strategies and tactics to meet the desired business objectives for assigned product.
Coaching and Mentoring —Supports leadership team in the onboarding, training, and ongoing coaching of product analysts. Recognizes associates as appropriate and, at times, may provide constructive feedback in support of individual development goals. May also coach a cross-functional Agile team if serving in a product owner capacity.
Product Release Coordination —Plans with other key team roles as well as product owners who are part of other teams, if necessary, to ensure a strategic, complementary release schedule. The product owner also helps to identify necessary operational changes stemming from a release and is co-responsible for defining reusable solutions/shared components.
Qualifications:
Required:
Bachelor's degree or the equivalent combination of education and relevant experience AND
5+ years of total relevant work experience
Experience in Agile methodologies
Preferred:
Experience working in a highly regulated investment/financial industry
Experience with the Adobe Experience Platform
Demonstrated success leading and working with large cross functional teams
Demonstrated success, and hands on experience leading and working with agile teams
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Ability to translate and simplify complex business and technical requirements
Strong negotiation skills and ability to influence decisions
Strategic mindset and high accountability for objectives and key results
FINRA Requirements
FINRA licenses are not required and will not be supported for this role.
Work Flexibility
This role is eligible for remote work up to two days a week.
Regional Requirements:
Base salary range:
$91,500 - $156,500 USD
For the location of:
Colorado
This job posting is expected to be available until 5/15/2024.
Placement within the range provided above is based on the individual’s relevant experience and skills for the role. Base salary is only one component of our total compensation package. Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus, which is determined upon company and individual performance.
Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:
We strive for equity, equality, and opportunity for all associates. When we embrace the power of diversity and create an environment where people can bring their authentic and best selves to work, our firm is stronger, and we create greater value for our clients. Our commitment and inclusive programming aim to lift the experience for each associate and builds allies for our global associate community. We know that a sense of belonging is key not only to your success at the firm, but also to your ability to bring your best each day.
Benefits: We invest in our people through a wide range of programs and benefits, including:
Competitive pay and bonuses as well as a generous retirement plan and employee stock purchase plan with matching contributions
Our policies may change as our working lives evolve. Yet, our commitment to supporting our associates’ well-being and addressing the needs of our clients, business, and communities is unwavering.
T. Rowe Price is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity of thought, gender, and race. We believe our continued success depends upon the equal treatment of all associates and applicants for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, sex, gender, age, mental or physical disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship status, military or veteran status, pregnancy, or any other classification protected by country, federal, state, or local law.
