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Job Description: Lead Product Manager / Product Owner
Position: SAFe Product Manager
Location: Princeton, NJ (2 days a week hybrid)
Experience Level: Minimum 16 years of experience in relevant roles, including certifications in Agile practices.
Responsibilities:
- Attend workshops, planning sessions, and business requirement meetings with analytical teams. Collaborate with UX teams to create product feature mock-ups. Work with data engineering/information architects to document data requirements and plan epics/features/user stories for the scrum team.
- Manage release planning, end-to-end requirement articulation, and support during development, testing, and production deployment.
- Translate business requirements into actionable developer specifications, participating in scoping proposed improvements.
- Mitigate scope-related risks effectively.
- Provide user support for data transformation, testing, problem-solving, and end-to-end user needs.
- Estimate project efforts by clarifying the scope and articulating acceptance criteria clearly.
- Showcase business value for features during sprint reviews to stakeholders.
- Collaborate with business owners, product leads, product managers, and scrum teams to enhance product experiences.
- Utilize field concepts, practices, and procedures to accomplish goals with limited supervision.
Skill Matrix:
Skill/Requirement | Required/Preferred | Proficiency Level | Highlighted |
Product management experience (10+ years) | Required | Advanced | |
Agile product mindset and ownership | Required | Advanced | |
Experience with SAFe Agile scrum teams | Required | Advanced | |
Decision-making and prioritization skills | Required | Advanced | |
Understanding of Databases, Big Data, Reporting, UI (Angular/React), Java | Preferred | Intermediate | |
Software requirement documentation | Required | Advanced | |
Analytical reasoning and critical thinking | Required | Advanced | |
Strong communication skills | Required | Advanced | |
Financial services industry experience | Preferred | Advanced | |
Experience with global teams | Preferred | Advanced | |
Applied innovation for business value | Preferred | Intermediate | |
Knowledge of data analytics and visualization tools | Preferred | Intermediate | |
Familiarity with Big Data, Databricks, and Data Lake | Preferred | Basic | |
Experience with DevOps culture | Preferred | Basic |
Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner.
- Passion for product vision and ownership with a strong Agile product mindset.
- Proven track record of working with SAFe Agile Scrum teams as a Business Analyst or Product Manager.
- Ability to prioritize and make critical decisions effectively.
- Strong skills in documenting software requirements, analytical reasoning, and critical thinking.
- Exceptional communication skills, including active listening and building cross-functional consensus.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Prior experience in the financial services industry (Fintech).
- Proficiency in Agile practices from a product delivery perspective.
- Experience working with large global teams.
- Proactive attitude with a demonstrated ability to create business value through innovation.
- Understanding of data analytics, visualization tools, and DevOps practices.
- Knowledge of Big Data, Databricks, Data Lake, and related technologies.