Data Product Owner (Remote)

Join our mission to create a completely new, 100% digital bank that uses consumer feedback to truly meet customers’ best interests. Jenius Bank, a division of SMBC MANUBANK, and a member of SMBC Group, is being built by a close-knit and fun-loving team of financial services professionals and technology experts who came together for the challenge of building a full-service digital bank from scratch. We’re committed to doing it the right way for the customer and are growing rapidly. To learn more about our relationship to our parent company, visit our website.

The anticipated salary range for this role is between $97,000.00 and $156,000.00. The specific salary offered to an applicant will be based on their individual qualification, experiences, and analysis of current compensation paid in their geography and the market for similar roles at time of hire. The role may also be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive award. In addition to cash compensation, SMBC MANUBANK offers a competitive portfolio of benefits to its employees.
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Jenius Bank is strategically scaling up a portfolio of products and building extraordinary experiences. In 2023, we launched our first two products reaching $1 billion in deposits and over $700 million in loans, all before Jenius Bank’s first anniversary. We don’t plan to slow down, with ambitious growth plans and the capital necessary to execute a multi-year strategic plan. We have a start-up mindset paired with SMBC Group’s 400 years of history. SMBC Group has more than 150 offices and 86,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries and is committed to creating new business to better serve customers in the rapidly evolving digital environment. Join us on the journey that has caught the attention of the Banking Dive, and more to reinvent banking where smarter banking translates to a richer life.

SUMMARY:

The Data Product Owner for technologies and platforms supports the Head of Data & Analytics in executing the data product strategy, vision, and roadmap.
Their primary focus is serving as the Data Engineering team's agile Product Owner, responsible for defining technology needs, outcomes, and roadmap to maximize alignment to business goals and strategies. This includes authoring stories and prioritizing the team backlog within sprints. They collaborate with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders to understand product needs, assess the potential value in addressing those needs, and work cross-functionally to define, develop and deliver solutions.
The Data Product Owner for technologies and platforms may take on additional responsibilities such as defining the content for product releases or full product manager responsibilities, including roadmap ownership, for a subset of the overall product. They may bring experience in a specific functional area such as dashboard design, data engineering, or business analysis.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Prior experience working on consumer financial products such as lending, credit cards and deposits
• Build, prioritize, and maintain a clear, comprehensive product backlog for data solutions products.
• Leverage qualitative and quantitative data analysis skills to dive deep into data to develop consumer products features and capabilities using tools such as Pyspark , Looker, Tableau or SQL
• Analyze technical and business requirements provided by the client, translate them into functional requirements and construct comprehensive user requirements documentation documented in epics and user stories with detailed acceptance criteria.
• Understand end to end software development life cycle and plan, execute and coordinate releases in an agile environment
• Function as a liaison among cross functional team to facilitate an understanding of requirements.
• Leverage domain and product knowledge to help stakeholders understand operational / business trade-offs associated with customizations. Communicate product dependencies, system limitations changes and impact to client environment to assist with strategic planning. 
• Ability to understand and document data flow diagrams using tools such as MS Visio and Miro
• Set goals for the engineering teams and lead the team through the agile process, including planning, refinement, review, and sprints.
• Review and validate test cases. Review design and test documents to verify that the design will meet the defined requirements.
• Serve as the product expert supporting internal stakeholders.

POSITION SPECIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering and/or Business Administration 
• 3+ years of experience in a Product Management or similar role, preferably in Data Product Management. 
• Prior experience as an agile product owner, leading development teams through planning, refinement, review, and sprint reviews, gathering and document requirements, researching / resolving issues and providing system production support.
• Dynamic, articulate, energetic and self-starter personality with demonstrated ability to translate product strategy and the product roadmap into executable development plans.
• Ability to interact professionally with executives, subject matter experts, business operations team members, technology professionals, software developers, and project managers.
• Results-driven individual with good business acumen; ability to understand the problem to be solved and deliver appropriate solutions that balances impact, effort, and alignment to objectives.
• Strong people skills to establish rapport, credibility, and influence with others across the company.
• Strong technical aptitude to learn, understand, and work with a variety of cloud and data technologies, APIs, databases, and visualization tools.
• Strong presentation and communication skills with an ability to simplify and clearly articulate concepts at all levels of the organization and across functions.
• Experience driving solutions from concept to delivery, working cross-functionally to define, design, develop, deliver, and iterate.
• Effective written, verbal, and listening communication skills.
• Self-Starter and able to work with minimum supervision and in the support of the data solutions team initiatives. Ability to coordinate people with a focus on deliverables.
• Experience with MS Office tools - Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Experience with Agile Project Management tools - VersionOne, JIRA, etc.

Preferred Skills:

• 5+ years of Product Owner experience in an Agile Scrum environment
• 2+ years of experience in performing Agile methodologies, including but not limited to:
  • Experience working with databases, data-engineering / ELT / ETL
  • Experience in understanding and documenting data mapping and data flow
  • Familiarity with cloud environments, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP). 

EOE STATEMENT
SMBC provides reasonable accommodations during candidacy for applicants with disabilities consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please let us know at accommodations@smbcgroup.com.

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