Senior Product Owner - Data

At Freddie Mac our mission of Making Home Possible is what motivates us and its at the core of everything we do. Since our charter in 1970 we have made home possible for more than 90 million families across the country. Join an organization where your work contributes to a greater purpose.

Position Overview:

Do you have passion for understanding customer needs and leveraging technology to deliver value Do you thrive in a fastpaced and rapidly changing environment Do you enjoy working with a team of varying skillsets to collectively discover new opportunities to delight customers Are you someone who believes data drives business Does driving business transformation through data delivery align with your career aspirations If so a role on the Multifamily Data Product Management team could be a fit for you!

This role will help to transform the way in which Freddie Mac does business. The Product Owner Senior develops and drives the product vision and strategy as one of the closest people in the business to the customer providing constant feedback to the team and helping to set and drive toward the vision for Multifamily (MF) data modernization.

Specifically this will support the product management of the MF Data Programs delivery execution. These capabilities are critical to driving Data Modernization and adoption of the Enterprise Business Model within the Multifamily division.

Our Impact:

The Freddie Mac Multifamily Data Product Management group drives innovation and data transformation by leveraging data as a strategic asset. We modernize data processes ensure robust governance and deliver actionable insights to optimize operations and enhance customer experiences. Through crossfunctional collaboration we implement cuttingedge data solutions that support the mission of homeownership positioning Freddie Mac as a leader in datadriven decision making and industry innovation.

Your Impact:

• Set ambitious and clear product vision and communicate the story effectively to key stakeholders and the rest of the team
• Own the endtoend product strategy from inception and determine business value once solution enters production
• Ensure alignment of product features and stories i.e. review give feedback and prioritize user stories in line with the Data Product Roadmap
• Continuously improve backlog with the team ensuring all items are clearly described estimated and prioritized
• Ensure customerdriven design considering user pain points & usability test results using market & industry knowledge as well as continual research to deliver a wellpositioned data product
• Approve each feature and provide valuable feedback for the team
• Drive sprint and release plans together with the Scrum Coach and organizational technology teams
• Exercise strong decisionmaking mandate from executive group to own data products endtoend
• Work with Development Lead to build a modular & reusable solution
• Facilitate the collaboration of crossorganizational teams to establish develop implement and rollout new data capabilities aligned with Data Modernization and Enterprise Business Model objectives.
• Clearly communicate value and status to various stakeholders and levels of management.
• Participates or leads activities that support system development & deployment (e.g. process redesign Day 1 setup risk & controls documentation user acceptance testing).
• Proficient in documenting risk & controls (e.g. policies procedures process flows risk and control matrices).

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in related discipline preferred.
• Understanding of the mortgage industry preferably commercial or multifamily real estate and their underlying loan lifecycles.
• 5 years of Agile Delivery or Product Owner experience.
• 5 years of data related experience such as product analysis data analysis and systems analysis.
• Experience delivering large complex change management projects that involve interfacing with multiple teams especially projects involving changes to business applications and technology.
• Demonstrated ability to understand data modernization principles and deliver on commitments.
• Data analysis skills to support data mapping data querying and data profiling.
• Experience working in an Agile methodology team and agile related tools.
• Strong analytical and problemsolving thought processes.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills including ability to present to management and expertly facilitate meetings.
• Data technology platforms experience: AWS Mongo DB Snowflake Tableau nice to have.
• Experience with Data focused technologies such as relational nonrelational onpremises and offpremises databases and their associated concepts.

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Ability to leverage product facing softskills and technical data analysis hard skills simultaneously and regularly.
• Understanding the priorities of Data Modernization and Enterprise Business Model and their operational processes to identify design and define solutions that can be effectively implemented to deliver value across the technology organization.
• Understanding the modernization strategy and apply it to the prioritization of the product backlog.
• Leveraging data & analytics to identify the value of proposed ideas and approach for implementing.
• Representing the Multifamily Data team as the principal contact as a subject matter expert and product leader in the Enterprise Business Model and Data Modernization efforts.
• Interact with data customers and internal technology customers to obtain feedback on solutions and design to validate and refine value or pivot to something new.
• Highly motivated adaptive persistent and selfdriven.
• Ability to work independently and confidently as well as across multiple teams and disciplines.
• High level of comfort operating in the gray and flexibility to work on multiple concurrent assignments.
• Demonstrated ability in strategizing and applying decisions.

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