Product Owner

Discover. A brighter future.

With us youll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the worlds leading digital banking and payments companies.We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.

Come build your future while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.

Job Description:

What Youll Do

The Product Professional is responsible for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Team. Product Professionals are at the center of delivering new products and driving innovation on platforms that improve customer experience meet customer needs and create business value while prioritizing what the team is working on to deliver value to the customer. The Product Professional is a servant leader and not the manager of team members has wellrounded job knowledge and helps to coach/mentor others on the team. Structure the work for the team and delegates the work. Actively manages and escalates risk and customerimpacting issues within the daytoday role to management.

How Youll Do It

• Builds product backlog prioritizes its items to achieve Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and continuously keeps it up to date. Maintains key product documentation (e.g. customer journey map technical specs process mapping etc..

• Understand and Ensures product features and processes align with applicable Discover regulatory compliance and risk management standards. Ensures product adheres to the highest quality standards including releasing security patches not linked to customers. Articulates requirements (regulatory contractual) into use cases agile stories and acceptance criteria to ensure compliance. Creates and validates user story acceptance criteria. Inspect and evaluate product progress through each iteration.

• Leads Agile practices (sprints planning and retros) Holds meetings with the product team to continuously update product backlog.

• Defines functional and nonfunctional product requirements; ensure completeness; integral and consistent; source of requirements for product team. Creates and validates user story acceptance criteria. Executes appropriate testing frameworks for product features (e.g. market testing functional performance etc. Works with Data stewards in their respective LOBs to ensure required Data quality controls are identified and implemented. Inspect and evaluate product progress through each iteration.

• Partners with business technology to create technical features that are required to continuously optimize system components and underline infrastructure maintenance.

• Manages and communicates scope deliverables timelines of projects and/or plans through storyboarding and structing complex information visually.

• Contributes to the product development and vision by connecting how customer solutions support business goals. Responsible for delivering Minimum Viable Product (MVP).

• Collaborate with cross functional teams to support gotomarket strategies.

• Builds a culture of accountability and ownership by empowering the product team to make decisions as close to the work as possible.

• Partners with vendors and/or crossfunctional partners in the evaluation and development.

Qualifications Youll Need

The Basics

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology Engineering Business Administration Finance Mathematics Economics Statistics or related.

• 4 years of experience in Product Management or Engineering experience in Financial Services or Tech Industry or related.

• In lieu of education 6 years of experience in Product Management or Engineering experience in Financial Services or Tech Industry or related.

Physical and Cognitive Requirements

The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal state and local laws:

• Primarily remain in a stationary position.

• Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.

• Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer telephone printer and calculator.

• Ability to communicate verbally. Ability to communicate in written form.

Bonus Points If You Have

• Agile Certification PO Certification

• AWS and SQL experience.

• Being able to convey information in a clear and concise manner.

Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United State on a fulltime basis.

Application Deadline:

Compensation:

Benefits:

We also offer a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. These benefits include:

• Paid Parental Leave

• Paid Time Off

• 401(k) Plan

• Medical Dental Vision & Health Savings Account

• Short and Long Term Disability Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment insurances

• Recognition Program

• Education Assistance

• Commuter Benefits

• Family Support Programs

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Learn more at mydiscoverbenefits.

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All Discover employees place our customers at the very center of our work.To deliver on our promises to our customers each of us contribute every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management.

Discover is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability protected veteran status or other legally protected status. (Know Your Rights)

Discover complies with federal state and local laws applicable to qualified individuals with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to search for a position to complete an application and/or to participate in an interview please email .Any information you provide regarding your accommodation needs will be kept confidential and will only be used to determine and provide necessary accommodation.

At Discover we are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable workplace through our Fair Chance Hiring practices. Fair Chance Hiring means that we base our hiring decisions on an applicants qualifications rather than their criminal record. All our positions are subject to Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. Our applicants go through a background check and we follow all applicable local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Hiring Ordinance LA County Fair Chance.

Positions marked as remote eligible are limited to remote locations within the country in which the position is based.

Applicants must be 18 or older at the time of hire.