Digital Product Owner

As a Digital Product Owner you’ll translate vendor road maps into applicability and impact to the business from a feature functionality perspective. You’ll ensure the vendor understands and correctly documents the bank requirements for the requested functionality being developed specifically for the bank. In this role you’ll assist the Development and QA team in reviews and make sure all requirements are addressed and updated. You’ll define functional and non-functional product requirements and ensure appropriate testing frameworks for product features based on the environments available and limitations of vendors. You’ll own and maintain a prioritized work backlog for Agile teams or programs In addition, you’ll review and accept output of vendor and/or business development to ensure specified acceptance criteria have been completed

• Responsible for working with product manager, business and subject matter experts to refine, accept, and prioritize stories, features or epics to support effective and compliant solutions while balancing investment and business value.
• Own and maintains a prioritized work backlog for a single or multiple Agile teams or programs. Reviews and accepts output of vendor and/or business development to ensure specified acceptance criteria have been completed. Manage dependencies with other team’s functions while identifying, building, and managing strategic partnership across different product teams.
• Review and accept output of vendor and/or business development to ensure specified acceptance criteria have been completed. Ensure product development efforts comply with the bank’s Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process including approvals and documentation for audit, requirements for IT Change Control.
• Build a culture of accountability and ownership by empowering the product management team to make decisions as close to the work as possible. Collaborate with product managers to define product requirements and prioritize features based on customer feedback and market analysis. And oversee the product development lifecycle, from concept to launch.

• 4+ years of related experience in Product Management or similar field.
• Bachelor’s degree in related field required; Masters or MBA in related field preferred.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of general banking operations, including deposit operations, loan administration, treasury management and/or other commercial banking products and services.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices.
• Intermediate to advanced experience with the Agile develoopment process and a clear understanding of the digital product development lifecycle. Intermediate to advanced knowledge of product development, quality assurance, risk assessment methodologies, and relevant regulations.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of product development, quality assurance, risk assessment methodologies, and relevant regulations. Intermediate to advanced knowledge of data analytics to analyze data and idetnify trends related to product risks.

Pulled from the full job description

• Tuition reimbursement
• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Wellness program, We offer all the important things you’d want - like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition, you’ll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!

Western Alliance Bank, Member FDIC, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Serving clients nationwide, Western Alliance Bank includes six legacy bank brands - Alliance Association Bank, Alliance Bank of Arizona, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank and Torrey Pines Bank - that remain part of the company’s heritage, as well as AmeriHome Mortgage, a Western Alliance Bank Company.