Senior Business Execution Consultant - Payments

Job Description:

Responsibilities include:

• Developing, evolving, and communicating the product area vision, priorities and strategy​ while managing risk and ensuring regulatory and policy compliance.
• Collaborating with the product manager on the overall product intention map.
• Establishing, communicating, and monitoring product area goals and performance indicators.
• Identifying and building relationships with key partners and stakeholders to communicate product area vision, strategies, and priorities while soliciting and incorporating feedback.
• Facilitating frequent collaboration between customers, stakeholders, and teams throughout the product lifecycle.
• Engaging in industry, technology, and customer ecosystem research and discovery to incorporate and prioritize key findings into the product area backlog.
• Actively owning the prioritization of a clearly understood product area backlog aligned to product area vision and goals.
• Coordinating with other product owners in service of the customer experience.
• Defining and refining user stories, including business readiness stories, ensuring acceptance criteria is clearly understood by the team.
• Responsible for ensuring that all known work is added to the backlog and made transparent.​
• Maintain a healthy backlog of items that are linked appropriately (Story → Feature → Epic).
• Accepting user stories after they have met the acceptance criteria and the definition of done.
• Actively participating in all product area events.
• Identifying and resolving sequencing and prioritization conflicts across products and product areas.
• Inspiring and leading high-performing, cross-functional teams.
• Being available to the team to answer questions and address escalated impediments.
• Demonstrating continuous growth in understanding customer, user, and company needs related to the product.
• Maintaining continuous and cadenced communication with the product manager and delivery teams
• Coordinating with business analysts, delivery coordinators, POs, and supporting roles that are shared across delivery teams.
• Managing tradeoffs and executing day to day backlog prioritization and refinement; defining release plans aligned to the product strategy and intention map​​.

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of Business Execution, Implementation, or Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in wire payments, banking or financial services industry
• Product Owner experience and/or certification
• Experience working with Agile project methodologies
• Experience gathering user/business requirements and translating them into epics and user stories
• Ability to prioritize work, meet deadlines, achieve goals, and work under pressure in a dynamic and complex environment
• Ability to translate and summarize complex technical information into understandable, actionable information

Leadership experience with ability to effectively drive results, provide feedback/direction, and manage and build relationships with leaders and team members in a geographically dispersed team environment