What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Owner position at Stifel?
What You'll Be Doing
The Project Owner (PO) is a member of an Agile Development Team. The Product Owner is responsible for guiding the team to create and deliver software applications that meet client, business, and firm goals by breaking down and defining small workable tasks (user stories) and prioritizing the team backlog to streamline the execution of priorities. The PO defines users, creates and maintains stories, and prioritizes work for new or revised features or enhancements. The PO has a significant role in quality control and is the team member empowered to accept stories as done. The Product Owner position has significant relationships and responsibilities outside of the agile team, including working closely with leadership and program management.
What We're Looking For
- Facilitate story creation for teams, and partners with the Scrum Masters to facilitate team story backlog refinement
- Collaborate with product management, leadership, and technical teams to analyze the Firm needs to implement high quality solutions.
- Articulate and communicate project vision and user stories in a manner clearly understandable to development teams so the team understands target objectives.
- Monitor the team development progress and provides updates to leadership, product management, and stakeholders, as requested.
- Apply Agile methods and processes to promote a disciplined project management process that encourages frequent inspection and adaptation of ongoing work.
- Lead regular demonstration and review meetings to communicate feedback on development achievements.
- Partner with agile scrum master, other technology teams, and stakeholders to test and deliver features in the team backlog.
- Ensure that development work maximizes value and is aligned with overall firm strategy.
What You'll Bring
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About Stifel
Stifel is more than 130 years old and still thinking like a start-up. We are a global wealth management and investment banking firm serious about innovation and fresh ideas. Built on a simple premise of safeguarding our clients' money as if it were our own, coined by our namesake, Herman Stifel, our success is intimately tied to our commitment to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success.
While our headquarters is in St. Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations. Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are currently building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more. Let's talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.
At Stifel we offer an entrepreneurial environment, comprehensive benefits package to include health, dental and vision care, 401k, wellness initiatives, life insurance, and paid time off.
Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
