Digital Product Manager Product Owner

Role: Digital Product Manager/Product Owner

Location: Columbus, OH (3 Days hybrid) NEED LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY

Please don't apply if you're not in the Columbus City!

Note: Should be able to do Face to Face interview in Columbus!

Duration: 5 Months (With possibility of extension)

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of digital product management experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following:
• Work experience
• Training
• Military experience
• Education

Role Overview

In this role, the contractor will act as a Feature Product Owner responsible for writing feature level acceptance criteria, acting as the communications anchor for stakeholders, and refine business requirements for the core banking platform team.

Responsibilities

• Utilize user stories, business requirements to refine functional requirements.
• Analyze partnerships and engagements to host refinement sessions with partners (JAD sessions).
• Manage stakeholders, perform conflict resolution, escalations, and act as the anchor for stakeholders on technical requirements.
• Lead the development and execution of product plans and initiatives supporting modernization of core banking capabilities.
• Serve as a key contributor in large scale planning and delivery efforts for core banking transformation initiatives.
• Review and assess digital strategy for account ledger and transaction processing to inform foundational product definitions.
• Influence product direction and cross functional strategy by evaluating technical, business, and regulatory considerations.
• Drive product decisions that balance customer impact, operational efficiency, and policy or compliance requirements.
• Partner closely with senior leadership to support roadmap development and execution of modernization priorities.
• Translate complex business needs into clear, actionable product requirements and user stories.
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, and risk/control partners to ensure solutions are scalable, compliant, and well documented.
• Engage business stakeholders to define future state requirements aligned to enterprise strategy.

Required Skills

• Digital Product Ownership Experience
• Knowledge of account ledger platforms, posting logic, transaction flows, and/or ledger system architecture
• Experience delivering complex initiatives within Agile frameworks, including hands on use of tools such as JIRA and Confluence
• Experience working with real time processing systems, microservices architectures, and event driven solutions
• Experience within financial services or highly regulated environments with an understanding of risk, control, and compliance considerations
• Microsoft Office products
• Jira
• Atlassian
• Strong Technical knowledge (microservices, banking technology nuances)

Desired Skills

• Executive Presence
• Agile Methodologies
• Adaptability and Resilience
• Customer-centric mindset
• Knowledge of consumer banking and/or core banking experience is desired but not required

Skills

agile,strategy,business requirements,jira,digital,architecture,digital product management