Product Owner II

Job Description

Responsible for supporting the Product Manager in the execution and delivery of CoBank's capabilities, customer and associate experiences. Partners and develops relationships with stakeholders to align with business strategy and quickly respond to opportunities. Effectively prioritizes the Agile Team backlog, within the SAFe Agile framework, to deliver the most valuable initiatives for the Bank and its customers. Is responsible for building the backlog of work deliverables in Azure Dev Ops by decomposing prioritized Features into the detailed User Stories for their Agile delivery team. In partnership with the Product Manager and Scrum Master, identifies, assesses, arbitrates and resolves conflicts and/or variances between functional group sub-processes and customer requirements. Oversees work process standardization, documentation, optimization and scalability.

Essential Functions

• Arranges with Product Manager the planning and delivery of key themes, through translating and decomposing Features and User Stories. Consults with Agile Delivery teams to organize and prioritize work efforts through Planning Intervals (PI).
• Strategically delivers Agile team PI objectives with business outcomes and success metrics, design thinking, customer feedback and competitive analysis for enterprise wide solutions.
• Develops solutions and provides to Product Manager in the identification and establishment of the desired future state, development of a strategic roadmap relating to EE processes, data, supporting features & functionality, controls required to ensure dependability, scalability and defensibility. Works with limited guidance of Product Manager to communicate desired future state across relevant CoBank departments, functional and sub-process groups.
• Develops user stories with limited guidance of Product Manager for the product capabilities, working directly with the delivery teams to deliver value.
• Works under limited guidance of Product Manager across team to ascertain, review and address the effectiveness and optimization challenges, and works with business unit leadership and across the governance structure to mitigate and resolve risks and issues.
• Interfaces with 3rd party vendors and contractors, where required, to deliver necessary pieces of our technical product with time-to-market excellence.
• Collaborates cross-functionally to coordinate and manage resources and activities maximizing impact and overall return on investment.
• Understands the market and farm credit's niche landscape in order to maintain competitiveness. Ensures product compliance with bank policies and regulatory standards. Has awareness regarding competition, best practices and benchmarks.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree required

Work Experience

• 3 years of experience with Platform/ Program/ Product Management/ Consulting, required
• 3 years of experience in the financial services or payments industry, required
• SAFe POPM and SAFe APM certification
• Experience working with Technology, Data, UX/UI
• Using narratives to convey complex ideas and inspire action.
• Experience with collecting and analyzing data through user research, usability testing, and other quantitative and qualitative approaches.
• Working knowledge in using analytics tools to measure key performance indicators (KPIs) related to user engagement, conversion rates, and overall product success.
• Experience with conversion rates, bounce rates, engagement metrics, and more.
• Experience with conducting A/B tests to compare different design versions with user groups and determine which performs better.

Physical Exertion Details

Sedentary Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time, but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

About CoBank

CoBank is a cooperative bank serving vital industries across rural America. The bank provides loans, leases, export financing and other financial services to agribusinesses and rural power, water and communications providers in all 50 states. The bank also provides wholesale loans and other financial services to affiliated Farm Credit associations serving more than 76,000 farmers, ranchers and other rural borrowers in 23 states around the country. CoBank is a member of the Farm Credit System, a nationwide network of banks and retail lending associations chartered to support the borrowing needs of U.S. agriculture, rural infrastructure and rural communities.

CoBank is headquartered outside Denver, Colorado, and serves customers from regional banking centers across the U.S. and also maintains an international representative office in Singapore.

CoBank is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.