Product Owner

• Convert approved governance and control requirements into product capabilities, backlog items, acceptance criteria, and release priorities.
• Manage, prioritize, and refine the product backlog to align with business goals and compliance requirements.
• Write clear user stories and acceptance criteria for engineering teams.
• Apply Agile and Scrum methodology to support sprint planning, reviews, demos, and delivery cadence.
• Monitor progress, adjust priorities, and communicate product status to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders across technology, risk, compliance, audit, and business teams.
• Support sprint planning and participate in reviews and demos.
• Perform compliance and risk checks to ensure product features meet internal and regulatory requirements.
• Design and support technology control procedures and process design improvements.
• Manage product dependencies across teams, systems, and delivery timelines.
• Support internal and external audits and governance activities.
• Oversee data acquisition and quality assurance activities.
• Generate product analytics and insights to support data-driven decision-making.
• Ensure product development adheres to SDLC standards and release governance.
• Drive product capabilities related to patching and vulnerability management.

The ideal candidate brings strong Agile and Scrum experience, a solid understanding of SDLC, and hands-on experience with patching and vulnerability management products. This role requires close collaboration with engineering, risk, compliance, audit, and business stakeholders to ensure products meet regulatory and control standards while delivering business value., * Hands-on experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or Lead Digital Product Manager.

• Experience converting approved governance and control requirements into product capabilities, backlog items, acceptance criteria, and release priorities.
• Strong experience with Agile and Scrum methodology.
• Experience converting requirements into a prioritized backlog.
• Experience writing user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Strong process design and product management skills.
• Experience in Technology Governance, Risk, and Compliance.
• Experience with technology control procedure design.
• Solid understanding of SDLC.
• Proficiency with Jira.
• Ability to monitor progress and adjust priorities.
• Strong stakeholder collaboration and communication skills.
• Experience managing and prioritizing backlogs.
• Experience participating in reviews and demos.
• Experience supporting sprint planning.
• Ability to perform compliance and risk checks.
• Experience with product dependency management.
• Experience supporting audits and governance.
• Experience with data acquisition and quality assurance.
• Ability to generate product analytics and insights.
• Hands-on experience with patching and vulnerability management products., * Experience in financial services or another highly regulated environment.
• Product Owner or Agile certifications such as CSPO.
• Experience supporting large-scale technology governance and control programs.