Senior Product Owner

Choose your next journey with Millennium Trust Company and join a culture that empowers and where you can innovate. You will be celebrated, you will be challenged, and you can aspire to inspire. You are more than a colleague here; you are part of a COMMUNITY that goes ABOVE and BEYOND professionally and personally to make a difference. We believe in finding the best talent! While some roles are based at one of our office locations, remote roles can sit in any of the following states: AL, AZ, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, MI, MN, MO, NC, NE, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA and WV. Remote status and role locations are subject to change. Relocation is not provided.
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HOW YOU WILL SOAR:
The Senior Product Owner will lead the product vision and delivery of initiatives for our Individual Investor business line by using agile squads focused on the client experience. The squads will be empowered and accountable to build a new individual investor experience while increasing business operational efficiency and retiring legacy systems while aligning tactical decisions with strategic architectural principles. The ideal incumbent will be strategic, innovative, and creative with a solid analytic foundation.

• Creates compelling individual investor product experiences
• Develops and executes product roadmaps with a focus on measurable outcomes
• Tracks and regularly shares progress with stakeholders and the team
• Authors user stories and provides context for the product vision, strategy, and requirements
• Grooms backlog and ensures that stories are ready for development
• Defines KPIs while monitoring and reporting on business and client metrics for the product
• Collaborates with internal stakeholders, various business lines and Technology to elicit, analyze and understand needs, constraints, risks and alignment with organizational strategy and priorities
• Works in partnership with the team and stakeholders to employ Agile methods, processes, tools and metrics to deliver value including ongoing product backlog refinement, product roadmaps and release planning
• Engages and collaborates with the team to create and manage Agile artifacts (e.g. Product Roadmap, Backlog, Release Plan, Lessons Learned) and information needed for prioritization and decision-making
• Regularly assesses features and costs to determine if and when to proceed with a product
• Responsible for accepting product deliverables
• Other duties as assigned

IF YOU HAVE SOME OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING, APPLY:

• 7-10 years of experience
• Background in Financial Services and Fintech strongly preferred
• Understanding of various technology solutions
• Education: Bachelor's Degree
• Master's degree preferred
• Preferred Major(s): Finance, Economics, Business or related field
• Certifications: Scrum Product Owner or Certified Product Manager credentials preferred
• Proven leadership skills to gain credibility, garner respect, and guide the creation of self-organizing teams
• Strategic, innovative, and creative thinker with a solid analytic foundation
• Ability to be assertive with business priorities and address opposing viewpoints while adhering to Agile concepts and principles
• Working knowledge of Agile practices such as iterative development, incremental delivery, backlog management, burn down metrics, velocity and task definition
• Strong communication, facilitation and interpersonal skills to connect and engage with the team, facilitate discussions, advocate for the team, negotiate with the business, mentor team members, and resolve conflicts
• Solid analytical skills, creative problem-solving skills, and high attention to detail
• Ability to work with minimal direction, and flexibility to adapt to shifting priorities and schedules
• Ability to handle multiple issues simultaneously and manage stressful situations
• Strong knowledge of technical concepts and architectural principles to drive scalable solutions

MILLENNIUM TRUST COMPANY is a rapidly growing, leading financial services company offering specialized retirement and institutional services and recently acquired PayFlex, a consumer directed benefits provider, to create a personalized, holistic approach to financial wellness. To that end, we provide a diversified multi-product business with a holistic focus on financial wellness. Millennium Trust has experienced year-to-year double digit growth and prides itself on its strong, progressive culture.
We have been recognized for our remarkable growth on lists such as Crain's Fast 50 and Inc. 5000, and for our outstanding workplace culture and benefits with Built In's 2023 Best Places to Work and Gallagher's 2022 Best-In-Class Employer awards.