Product Owner (Accounts Receivable)

Responsibilities:

• Translate complex business objectives into features and user stories, work closely with engineering to provide the information required for those teams to successfully deliver software products
• Ensure what the team builds is aligned with what is needed to achieve the desired outcomes
• Lead refinement and own/prioritize the teams backlog
• Execute agile methodologies with collaboration in a dynamic product development environment
• Maintain the product backlog and ensure user stories are aligned to underlying product outcomes
• Support the Product Manager(s) to ensure in the identification of technical problems, and devise solutions as they relate to the current and future business environment
• Participate in retrospectives to ensure lessons learned are carried forward in subsequent development activities 
• Lead the team in defining what needs to change on the platform to support a particular business feature (impact analysis/approach definition)
• Manage team capacity by prioritizing/planning work through Rally stories and project future capacity needs based on pipeline work
• Ensure feature refinement conforms to definition of ready, and acceptance test criteria is completed to definition of done
• Foster and contribute to a culture of ownership, follow-through, and collaboration by adopting a mindset of doing whatever it takes to make the team successful
• Identify risks, challenges, opportunities, and business integration needs
• Enable cross-functional collaboration with relevant teams within the product scope
• Prioritize and maintain the sprint backlog consistent with the outcomes and Product Roadmap and perform story elaboration with the implementation team
• Work closely with the design and technology teams to develop, test and deliver the defined capabilities and rapidly iterate new solutions
• Review/demonstrate sprint-related or general functionality with external partners and customers
• Coordinate communication and facilitates resolution of risks, issues, and changes tied to the product backlog
• Create documentation which identifies and highlights gaps in the end user experience from production launches
• Ensure that the appropriate tracking and reporting is in place to monitor performance post launch to evaluate future investment

Qualifications:

• Accounts Receivable knowledge
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with all levels within organization, internally and externally
• Experience with Agile and scrum software development methodologies is desirable
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to consult with various stakeholders and drive to thorough requirements
• Some experience in writing customer journeys, user stories, features in an easy to understand, non-technical manner
• Good analytical skills
• Shown experience in data analysis and analytical decision-making, with preference for consumer services products
• Problem solving, attention to detail, excellent organizational skills
• Project management skills, ability to prioritize and complete tasks
• Bachelors Degree desirable or equivalent experience
• Previous knowledge of APIs and Product Management is desirable but not essential
• Ability to support or leading large, complex features or products with multiple partners
• Experience working with rapid and iterative development teams strongly desired
• Product Owner Experience
• Credit Card experience
• Communication to both technical and business
• Strong ability to take features and break down into user stories and acceptance criteria
•  Accounts receivable preferred