Product Owner - Advanced

An early pioneer in Banking as a Service, Q2 is the platform behind some of the biggest names in fintech banking today. Over the years, we’ve worked with amazing clients like Square, Credit Karma, Betterment, Acorns, and many others to launch next-generation financial services that are redefining banking for millions of everyday Americans nationwide. As we scale our platform into the tens of millions of users, we’re looking for a Product Owner with product & technical skills to join our Admin Team. This team builds and maintains a large multi-tenant application that serves bank operations, customer service and internal departments.

As a Product Owner on our Banking as a Service team, you will be responsible for organizing and executing a product delivery strategy for your focus area. Your work will focus primarily on the product functionality we build alongside our 3rd party partners – you’ll be uncovering client and bank needs, accurately scoping effort, creating robust documentation, developing product delivery goals, and actively managing the product roadmap for your functional area. Think of yourself as the glue that ties together Q2’s Banking as a Service platform: working with all the different parts of our group to help us launch new products and evolve our existing ones so our clients can continue defining the cutting edge of banking.

You will own the tradeoffs, define what exactly we’re building, and work to ensure that we deliver in an excellent way that considers the myriad of interdependencies we deal with on a daily basis. You’ll be at the front lines with our development teams, working with them to evolve our roadmap and ensuring that we’re building our architecture in a thoughtful way. If done well, you’ll be able to drive our product strategy from the ground up and see your products come to life as our clients launch them to millions of users across the country. If you’re product-focused, scrappy, driven, and a great problem solver – you’ll feel right at home on our team.

Responsibilities:

• Work with Product leadership to develop and effectively prioritize the product backlog 
• Experience partnering with and understanding technology development
• Partner with clients, development, operations, external partners, and cross-functional leaders to identify, build and measure features and functionality that meet business goals
• Manage the product implementation side of key initiatives related to card processing, fraud management, and other critical features
• Define product functionality and write detailed User Stories/Epics with empathy for the end user that help engineers build with a clear end goal in mind
• Provide scope for a release and define release timing and strategy
• Work with the team to define each sprint plan, review completed work, and accept/reject results. This person is highly available to the team
• Apply Agile methods and processes to promote a disciplined software development process that encourages frequent inspection and adaptation of ongoing work product
• Create product documentation for developers, clients, and banks to ensure alignment, expedite product development, and grow our knowledge base and API
• Articulate product vision and user stories in a manner clearly understandable to development teams and clients
• Responsible for the delivery of Objectives and Key Results

Required Skills and Experience

• B.S. or B.A in Business, Management, Engineering, CS, or related field
• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in (relevant degree) and a minimum of 8 years of related experience; or an advanced degree with 6+ years of experience; or equivalent related work experience.
• Previous financial services or fintech experience highly preferred, partnerships a plus
• Minimum 5 years in product management, financial services, or e-commerce is preferred
• Technical background familiar with Microsoft Enterprise Applications
• Well versed in process management, demonstrated ability to manage complex rollouts with multiple stakeholders – has launched products at scale
• Strong teamwork, organization, and problem resolution skills
• Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Strong Interpretation of business requirements to written acceptance criteria for technical teams
• Experience working within an Agile SCRUM Framework
• Strong familiarity with Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence, etc.)
• Self-starter with proven ability to deliver results with minimal assistance is a must 

You are…

• Highly determined and driven to achieve results with a clear track record of doing so
• Scrappy; quick to find the best path to a goal by collaborating with others
• An intuitive problem solver Comfortable operating in ambiguity
• Detail- oriented with an eye for data analysis
• An effective communicator that can align internal and external stakeholders
• A pragmatic optimist that brings positive energy to everyone they work with

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At Q2, our goal is to be a diverse and inclusive workforce that fosters mutual respect for our employees and the communities we serve. Q2 is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.