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Job Overview
As the Sr. Product Owner at CreditXpert, you will play a pivotal role in driving product excellence by aligning the development team’s efforts with business goals and customer needs. You’ll be responsible for defining the product features supporting the roadmap, managing the product backlog, and ensuring that we deliver valuable features to our users in a timely and efficient manner. In this highly collaborative role, you will work closely with stakeholders, the development team, and UX Designers to bring product vision to life while maintaining a user-centered approach.You’ll ensure that the development team is always working on the most impactful features, that the product backlog is continuously refined, and that the product is aligned with our overall business strategy.
Your ability to balance customer needs, technical requirements, and business goals will be critical to your success.PM22Requirements
Essential Functions:
As the Sr. Product Owner, you will
- Product Backlog Management: Prioritize, manage, and refine the product backlog to ensure the team always has a well-prepared set of tasks that align with business priorities.
- User Stories & Specifications: Develop detailed user stories, top-level feature specifications, and acceptance criteria that provide clarity to the development team and stakeholders.
- Feature Prioritization: Work with key stakeholders to define, prioritize, and articulate product features that best support company objectives and user needs.
- Collaboration with Development Teams: Ensure the development team has a clear understanding of backlog items, user stories, and requirements necessary to deliver high-quality features.
- Release Planning & Coordination: Lead the planning of product releases, setting expectations for new functionality delivery and managing timelines.
- Customer-Centric Focus: Advocate for the customer at every stage of product development, ensuring features and product behavior meet documented user needs and enhance the user experience.
- Product Strategy & Roadmap: Contribute to the long-term product strategy and roadmap by identifying opportunities for improvement and innovation.
- Product Research: Identify and initiate product research to gather insights and data that will inform the product direction and decision-making.
- UX Collaboration: Partner with UX Designers to create user-centered solutions and provide input on user research planning and studies.
- Quality Assurance: Review product deployments, ensuring that they align with the intended product experience, working closely with the UX Director for feedback on deviations.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Foster collaboration between the development team, UX, marketing, and other business units to drive product success.
What We're Looking For:
- A Strategic Thinker: You understand how to align product development with long-term business goals and customer needs. You can prioritize features effectively to maximize product value and impact.
- User-Centered: You are passionate about delivering great user experiences and have the ability to prioritize product features based on real customer needs, research, and data.
- Collaborative: You thrive in a cross-functional environment and are comfortable working closely with stakeholders; UX Designers, developers, and other teams to bring the product vision to life.
- Organized & Detail-Oriented: You excel in managing complex backlogs, defining clear user stories, and keeping track of product progress and timelines with exceptional attention to detail.
- Problem Solver: You can navigate challenges, whether they come from competing priorities, technical constraints, or evolving customer needs, and come up with creative solutions that drive results.
- Communicative: You have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. You can clearly articulate product goals, user stories, and expectations to a variety of stakeholders, ensuring alignment across the team.
- Agile & Adaptable: You are experienced with Agile methodologies, have the ability to adapt quickly to changing needs, and can prioritize tasks effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Results-Driven: You are focused on outcomes, not just output. You consistently track product performance, gather feedback, and iterate to ensure success.
Required Education and Experience
- 7+ years of experience as a Product Owner, specifically managing technology-driven products within a SaaS company or similar environment.
- Proven experience in product ownership role, backlog prioritization, user story creation, and working closely with development teams.
- Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies and product management tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence).
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally and articulate the product vision to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience collaborating with UX Designers and other product teams to create customer-centric solutions.
You must have the X-factor to join our team.
- Team Player: Are you a joiner? Are you comfortable working outside of the boundaries of your job description to support the company and team?
- Respected: Do you value integrity and display leadership qualities? Are you trusted to represent the brand well?
- Judiciously Courageous: Are you courageous enough to judiciously speak up?
- Composed: Are you composed, respectful, and calm? Do you value outcomes over output?
- Accountable: Do you own your work, your decisions, and the outcomes – good or bad?
- No Ego: Are you confident without having an ego? Would people say you are an active listener? Do you delegate where necessary, knowing that you can’t possibly know it all?
- Builder Mindset: Do you have an open mindset? Would you consider yourself a strategic doer?
- Focused: Do you easily differentiate between real problems and background noise?
Additional Details
Category/Level: Professional Classification: ExemptPosition Type: Full-TimeSupervisory: NoTravel: Rare
About CreditXpert Inc.
What makes CreditXpert an Employer of Choice
- Meaningful Mission!
- Creative, Performance Driven Culture
- Great Healthcare Benefits - most are 100% company paid
- Generous Paid Leave
- Hybrid Environment and Flexibility to work remote
- Stellar Workspace - great location/hassle free parking
- Professional Development and Tuition Assistant - we truly value continuous improvement and want to support your journey
Who we areCreditXpert Inc. is a successful software company that enjoys the freedom to chart its own path. Our team is a small, close-knit community, where each person can make a big impact. We are nimble and have thrived for over 20 years in the midst of constant industry and regulatory upheaval. We believe in using our talents to make a positive impact on the world by improving the financial lives of Americans. As lifelong learners, we have a passion for change and we constantly adapt everything (our business, internal processes, tools…). We enjoy a wide diversity of backgrounds and opinions, which can lead to passionate debates.
We wear multiple hats, often stretch beyond our comfort zone, and see failure as an opportunity to learn. We have fun inventing advanced analytical solutions and creating great user experiences.What we doIn 2000, we started a revolution by exposing the inner workings of the credit scoring industry to consumers, pioneering a new industry. Millions of people have been using our tools to take control of their credit life, gain access to better loans, and save money. More recently, we enabled the mortgage origination industry to replace guesswork with technology when trying to improve credit scores.
As a result, more consumers now qualify for a mortgage at a good rate, and thousands of loan officers, mortgage lenders and other businesses can better serve their customers.BenefitsWe strive to create a great experience for our team, not just our customers. We want everyone to be excited about their work, fulfilled and worry-free. That’s why we offer lots of autonomy, support, and the flexibility you need to balance your life. Our compensation and benefits package ensures that you can focus all your energy on creating value for our customers and the company.Our benefits include a flexible and hybrid work environment, open PTO, performance based annual bonuses, company contribution to 401(k), insurance (medical, dental, vision, ST/LT disability, life), HSA and FSA.Work EnvironmentThis job generally operates in a professional office environment.
This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, scanners, and shared digital files. Physical DemandsThe physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust and focus. Please note that this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee in this position. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Salary Description$135k - $150K
