Agile Product Owner - Document AI

The Enterprise Document AI System (DAISY) Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value delivered by a dedicated Agile scrum team. Working closely with Product Managers, business stakeholders, and technology partners, the Product Owner translates strategic objectives into actionable requirements and maintains a prioritized backlog that enables successful delivery.

This role serves as the primary day-to-day leader for their scrum team, driving clarity, execution, accountability, and continuous improvement. The successful candidate will be highly organized, proactive, and results-oriented, with the ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining strong stakeholder relationships., Product Ownership

• Partner with Product Managers to execute against the product vision, roadmap, and strategic priorities.
• Translate business objectives into well-defined features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and delivery requirements.
• Own and maintain a prioritized product backlog aligned to program objectives and business value.
• Review, refine, and accept completed work to ensure requirements and quality expectations are met.
• Make day-to-day prioritization and scope decisions in support of delivery objectives.

Agile Team Leadership

• Serve as the primary Product Owner for a dedicated scrum team.
• Drive backlog readiness to ensure sufficient work is prepared for upcoming sprints.
• Promote adherence to Agile practices, sprint commitments, and team delivery routines.
• Partner with Scrum Masters and technology teams to remove blockers and improve team effectiveness.
• Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, continuous improvement, and delivery excellence.

Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate closely with business, technology, data, and operational stakeholders.
• Proactively provide clear and timely updates on priorities, risks, dependencies, and progress.
• Manage stakeholder expectations while balancing competing priorities and delivery constraints.
• Build trusted partnerships across teams and challenge constructively when needed to drive the best outcomes.
• Ensure alignment between business needs and delivery team execution.

AI Program Enablement

• Support delivery of strategic AI capabilities within the DAISY program.
• Partner with AI and technology teams to help translate emerging capabilities into business value.
• Contribute to the evolution of product management and Agile practices across the program.
• Help drive adoption of scalable AI solutions that support enterprise priorities.

The ideal candidate is a highly organized and proactive leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys driving execution through influence and partnership., Bank of America and its affiliates consider for employment and hire qualified candidates without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote the concept of equal employment opportunity, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, provincial and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other bases such as medical condition, marital status or any other factor that is irrelevant to the performance of our teammates.

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• Proactive self-starter who takes ownership and drives outcomes.
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills.
• Proven ability to manage a large workload and multiple competing priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence and drive accountability across cross-functional teams.
• Collaborative team player with strong partnership and relationship-building skills.
• Effective communicator who provides clear, concise, and timely status updates.
• Comfortable setting boundaries, managing expectations, and constructively challenging when appropriate.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and translate complex business needs into actionable requirements.
• Passion for innovation, continuous improvement, and delivering business value

Desired Qualifications

• Experience supporting AI, Gen AI, or data-driven products
• Experience working in large-scale Agile environments
• Technology product delivery experience
• Financial services experience
• DevOps and Agile delivery practices

Skills:

• Agile Practices
• Product Ownership
• Backlog Management
• Requirements Definition & Refinement
• Stakeholder Management
• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Result Orientation
• Influence
• Risk Management
• Communication
• Prioritization & Planning

Minimum Education Requirement: High School Diploma / GED / Secondary School or equivalent

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Why Join DAISY?

DAISY is one of the bank’s most strategic AI programs, focused on enabling enterprise-scale adoption of Artificial Intelligence. This role offers the opportunity to work directly with business and technology leaders to deliver innovative AI capabilities that drive meaningful impact across the organization. If you’re passionate about Agile delivery, product ownership, and helping shape the future of AI at Bank of America, this is a unique opportunity to be part of a transformational journey., Bank of America aims to create a workplace free from the dangers and resulting consequences of illegal and illicit drug use and alcohol abuse. Our Drug-Free Workplace and Alcohol Policy (“Policy”) establishes requirements to prevent the presence or use of illegal or illicit drugs or unauthorized alcohol on Bank of America premises and to provide a safe work environment.

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