Senior Product Owner

Mutual of America Financial Group

Job Title: Senior Product Owner

Location: Boca Raton, FL (Hybrid)

Who We Are:

At Mutual of America Financial Group, we help people build the assets they need to achieve greater financial security. Our Company is built upon a solid foundation of integrity, excellence, and social responsibility. We were founded in 1945 to provide small and mid-sized nonprofit organizations with pension and retirement-related services, along with leading customer support. Today, we provide these services also to for-profit companies, as well as to governmental entities, Tribal enterprises, institutional investors, and individuals. We work diligently to understand the needs of our customers so we can help them achieve their financial savings goals.

We are committed to bringing talented and motivated people together to help our customers achieve a financially secure future.

Role Summary:

As a Sr. Product Owner, you will serve as the senior liaison between the business and technical teams in translating complex business needs into technological solutions. The Sr. Product Owner is responsible for managing product team(s) backlog and works closely with business stakeholders to analyze business technology requirements and technology solutions against value and risk. You will be responsible for conducting cost-benefit and risk assessment analysis for proposed solutions to determine suitability and risk mitigation. This opportunity requires working a hybrid onsite/remote work schedule, onsite 3 days in our Boca Raton, Florida, office, and 2 days remotely each week.

Responsibilities:

• Participate as Sr. Product Owner on key cross-functional product teams, managing successful implementation of technology solutions and application development.
• Analyze business technology requirements and specifications against value and risk of potential solutions.
• Troubleshoot and identify system related production problems and coordinate the evaluation and implementation of system enhancements.
• Act as a core team member within an Agile Scrum team in a product delivery model to identify potential new product solutions.
• Work with the business product manager to incorporate customer and stakeholder feedback, identify requirements, appropriately adjusting priority of deliverables and prioritize product team backlog.
• Maintain the integrity and guide the evolution of features and develop user stories based on the Epics established by the Product Manager and provide guidance to clearly define and articulate business value for each team sprint and release.
• Recommend proposed solutions and/or enhancements to improve and optimize processes, workflows, performance, and systems.
• Manage risk associated with new solutions and/or proposed enhancements.
• Ensure alignment with technology standards and industry best practices.
• Make or help with buy-versus-build decisions.
• Conduct cost-benefit and risk assessment analyses for proposed solutions to determine suitability.
• Escalate business decisions as required.
• Review technical documentation of the design documents, coding documents and user manuals.
• Resolve ambiguous business priority conflicts.
  
  

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree is required; Finance and/or Information Systems degree preferred.
• 7 years’ Product Owner experience required; Financial Services and/or Web experience preferred.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills for frequent interaction with end users and preparation of user stories and other written documents.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail.
• Team-player with the ability to work within a collaborative environment to reach consensus among business users.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to develop and maintain sound working relationships.
• Both a strong data and business acumen required.
• Self-motivated and capable of managing multiple priorities and tasks as delegated.
• Creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.
• Ability to handle multiple concurrent projects and deadlines.
• Proficient understanding of designing and delivering project portfolio level reporting.
• Comfortable in working with large, multi-dimensional projects and experience in working within cross-divisional product teams.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office product suite, including Excel and PowerPoint.
• Proficient in Agile and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Proficient in data management and system analysis.
• Proficient with Atlassian’s Jira project management and Confluence collaboration software.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certified Agile Professional and/or Product Owner certification is preferred.
  
  

What we offer you:

• Competitive base salary
• Annual Bonus
• Comprehensive Benefits Package (medical, dental, and vision) that starts day one of employment.
• 401K Match: Receive up to 6% of your pay (salary and incentive compensation) with 100% employer match on employee contributions.
• Parental Leave: 8 weeks fully paid.
• Paid time off: 20 days plus two floating personal holidays
  
  

The salary range below describes the minimum to maximum base salary range for this role. The role is also eligible for an annual bonus, whereby total compensation may exceed this range depending on individual and / or company performance.

Base Salary Range: $83,600 - $125,400

Visit www.mutualofamerica.com/careers for additional details about life at Mutual of America. You can also follow us on Twitter: @mutualofamerica | Facebook: @mutualofamerica

Mutual of America Financial Group provides equal employment opportunity to all qualified employees and applicants for employment regardless of race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, marital or partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic predisposition, veteran or military status, or any other classification prohibited by applicable law.