Product Owner III

Join the Finance Data Office as a Product Owner and help shape how finance teams use data to make critical decisions both today and into the future. This exciting opportunity will work across Technology, Finance, and other partners to continue charting the course for existing finance data tools while contributing to our go-forward finance data strategy.

Half of this role is ownership of FinanceBI, Global Risk Solutions' flagship finance reporting product, where you will handle the full spectrum of the product from day-to-day changes to future capabilities. As a member of the Agile team, you will represent the voice of the customer, working closely with both Finance and Technology partners to understand processes, document challenges, and define and prioritize development work. You will be in constant communication with a variety of stakeholders ensuring data is available in a timely, accurate, and accessible manner.

The other part of the role focuses on our go-forward strategy, where you will help to scope, deliver, and support the Certified Actuals Data Product. This new build product is a critical and foundational piece of Finance’s future data ecosystem. The goal of this product is to bring together actuals data from across Liberty’s ledger and subledger platforms to enable new levels of scale and detail for users. As the Product Owner, you will uncover requirements, craft options, and influence priorities to ensure the product is delivered in increments that provide tangible value to the organization. You will also develop deep expertise in the use of actuals data and the systems that capture, process, and store it, enabling you to serve as a subject matter expert and steward of this focused data domain.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for collaboratively creating product vision and alignment with strategic priorities with stakeholders. Contributes to the development of the portfolio vision. Communicates the vision as a product strategy to their squad/team and other squads/teams outside their portfolio & functional area as well as executive leadership.
• With the squad, accountable for developing and achieving product level KPIs. Manages product(s) with high degree of strategy, scope, and complexity.
• Owns and maintains the product backlog and is accountable for its contents and prioritization. Accountable for clear, actionable user stories.
• Sets priorities and actively participates in squad/team quarterly planning. Contributes to priorities for and actively participates in portfolio quarterly planning. Sets expectations with stakeholders for delivery of new capabilities, features, and functionalities.
• Participates in squad/team demos, retrospectives, and all other ceremonies.
• Works daily with the agile working group clarifying business requirements, removing roadblocks, constantly communicating, and supporting alignment around product strategy.
• Leads IT and business leadership to align development and business goals and priorities while working with stakeholders and squad/team to remove roadblocks to execution.
• Monitors and maintains the product health. Designs additional monitoring to support enhanced understanding of product health. Proactively monitors impact of their product on others in the ecosystem.
• Analyzes and reports on feasibility, cost of delay ramifications, economies, or other aspects of planned or potential changes to the product. 1
• Drives alignment with stakeholders to understand the impact that their products' regulatory, compliance, and other industry constraints will have on other products in the portfolio. Negotiates with internal and external squads/teams to set aligned priorities among squads/teams both within and outside the portfolio. 1