Associate, Digital Product Owner, Miami-Coconut Grove, Miami, FL

Miami, United States of America

USA Job Family Description: Primarily responsible for generating and communicating both the short-term and long-term digital agenda to the wider firm. They oversee the following areas: customer experience, channel development, product management, strategy & transformation, operations, and analytics. A primary objective will be to unify and stimulate cross-collaboration between the different areas of the digital function as well as the wider business. Incumbent must operate within financial, budget and legislation constraints.

USA Job Function Description: Researches, develops and implements competitive Digital products and services for the consumer, small business and corporate markets to maximize profits. Translates technological advances and consumer needs into usable and marketable products. Plans, directs and facilitates all phases of the Digital life cycle, from inception through introduction into the marketplace. Ensures product meets regulatory and industry standards.

Essential Functions/Responsibility Statements:

Works with the senior product owner to understand the product roadmap, create the product backlog, and define and prioritize user stories to support the roadmap

Combines knowledge of business needs and technology to create functional designs for Digital products

Works with the delivery team to coordinate development, implementation, testing, and ongoing maintenance of Digital products

Explains product vision and user stories to the team to ensure requirements are understood and customer value is delivered

Gathers, reviews, and analyzes requirements from business users and subject matter experts to create and prioritize user stories

Liaises with Risk, Legal, and Compliance to ensure approvals for requirements

Works with development team to elaborate and define technical learnings into refined and prioritized backlog items

Promotes Agile principles

Translates business requirements into IT application impacts and business process impacts

Assists IT and business teams to ensure requirements and user stories are translated to test plans

Conducts research to determine if solutions to business requirements currently exist within or outside the business unit, and if not, whether new solutions are feasible

Analyzes impact of proposed solution across the business and contributes a business or process perspective during backlog grooming meetings

Performs Data mining and Analysis to address key business issues

Assists QA and UAT teams to ensure that user stories can be easily translated into test plans, and ensure that the proper testing plans have been completed

Manages/assists with the creation and execution of test plans and user acceptance testing

Communicates with LOB partners, understands the problem at hand and ensures end-product quality

Works with the sr. product owner, project and product managers to complete and update project documentation and deliverables and attends project meetings

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education:

BS/BA degree or higher: Technology Field Req

Work Experience:

5+ Years Agile product owner or business analyst role Req

5+ Years Req

5+ Years Experience with Agile and waterfall development methodologies Req

5+ Years Experience operating within a Project Management framework Req

5+ Years Experience managing relationships with multiple internal stakeholders and outside vendors Req

Skills and Abilities:

Ability to understand technical challenges and make educated trade-offs with your team

Ability to manage multiple scrum backlogs

Strong understanding of agile principles

Diversity & EEO Statements: At Santander, we value and respect differences in our workforce and strive to increase the diversity of our teams. We actively encourage everyone to apply.

Santander is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Working Conditions: Frequent Minimal physical effort such as sitting, standing and walking. Occasional moving and lifting equipment and furniture is required to support onsite and offsite meeting setup and teardown. Physically capable of lifting up to fifty pounds, able to bend, kneel, climb ladders.

Employer Rights: This job description does not list all of the job duties of the job. You may be asked by your supervisors or managers to perform other duties. You may be evaluated in part based upon your performance of the tasks listed in this job description. The employer has the right to revise this job description at any time. This job description is not a contract for employment and either you or the employer may terminate at any time for any reason.

Primary Location: Miami, FL, Miami

Other Locations: Florida-Miami

Organization: Santander Bank N.A.

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