Sr. Digital Product Owner (ERP System)

Stellantis Financial Services (SFS) is the new captive finance company for one of the worlds leading automakers and a mobility provider with iconic brands including Abarth Alfa Romeo Chrysler Citron Dodge DS Automobiles Fiat Jeep Lancia Maserati Opel Peugeot Ram Vauxhall Free2move and Leasys.

Our exciting growth provides opportunities to advance your career as we successfully lead products and services from a small to midsize company in just a few years. Join our world class team and culture and contribute to our core mission which is enhancing our customers experience.

Position Summary:

The Sr. Digital Product Owner bridges the gap between product strategy and development. They must be a proactive participant in this role and responsible for the product backlog organizing sprints and are expected to answer questions from developers as needed. This role is critical for managing the product backlog and ensures the prioritization of user stories for upcoming sprints and is a liaison for the development team.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the development team to align backlog prioritization with strategic goals ensuring effective translation of product management initiatives into executable tasks.
• Break down epics into user stories arrange and prioritize sprints and clearly define team goals at each sprints start.
• Provide demonstrations to both business and technical stakeholders at sprint conclusions offering a comprehensive overview of progress and facilitating stakeholder feedback.
• Actively participate in evaluating development stages address development queries regarding story rationale and contribute to business case documentation for enhanced decision-making.
• Work in tandem with product managers to refine the product roadmap including developing user personas journey maps and a prioritized backlog while also supporting go-to-market strategies for successful product adoption.
• Manage operational issues through daily triage collaborate on trade-off decisions and offer a holistic view on how business processes and system configurations impact user experience.
• Conduct market research leverage data for insights and recommend product strategies that align with business objectives and market awareness ensuring a focus on providing exceptional digital experiences.
• Oversee multiple initiatives at various development stages analyzing past enhancements for optimization and represent customer/stakeholder needs to drive feature development and product integrations identifying opportunities for testing and enhancements.
• The position may necessitate availability for weekend assignments on occasion.

Qualifications and Competencies Required 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.

Required Experience:

• Minimum 5 years experience in enabling digital processes executing strategic roadmaps and operating within an agile scrum environment.

Education:

• Bachelors degree in business Marketing Engineering Communications or a related field.

Skills Required:

• Analytical and Design Skills: Synthesizes diverse information generates creative solutions and uses detailed design processes leveraging both data and intuition.
• Problem-Solving and Technical Skills: Identifies and resolves problems with skillful analysis shares expertise and continuously builds knowledge.
• Communication and Interpersonal Skills: Exhibits clear oral and written communication maintains confidentiality and is open to new ideas.
• Leadership and Teamwork: Balances team and individual responsibilities exhibits leadership and actively participates in team dynamics.
• Adaptability and Quality Management: Manages change effectively strives for quality improvement and adapts to new situations with resilience.
• Professionalism and Business Acumen: Demonstrates professionalism understands business implications and aligns work with strategic goals while maintaining ethics and organizational support.

• Overtime required required on an as needed basis.
• Travel 0-10% - as required on an as needed basis.
• Must have reliable transportation and live within a commutable distance to one of the following cities: Atlanta GA; Dallas TX; Detroit MI; Houston TX; Phoenix AZ.

Qualifications Preferred:

• Agile Delivery
  • Experience Agile or SAFe Agile experience is preferred
• ERP Platform Expertise
  • Proven experience with major ERP systems (e.g. SAP Oracle Microsoft Dynamics) including end-to-end migration projects.
  • Ability to translate complex accounting and finance workflows into ERP configurations and integrations.
• Finance & Accounting Domain Knowledge
  • Deep understanding of GAAP principles financial reporting accounts payable/receivable and general ledger processes.
  • Familiarity with compliance requirements (SOX audit controls) and how they impact ERP design and functionality.
• Technical & Integration Skills
  • Strong grasp of data migration strategies API integrations and middleware solutions for connecting ERP with other enterprise systems.
  • Experience with Agile delivery frameworks and tools (Jira Confluence) for managing ERP-related product backlogs and stakeholder priorities.

Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods of time use hands and arms to operate office equipment including but not limited to a keyboard mouse and phone will occasionally need to reach stoop stand or walk. The employee must be able to see (close vision) hear speak and communicate verbally. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.

Work Environment The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Work Schedule This position requires the ability to work various shifts to accommodate business needs. Typically between the hours of 8AM-6PM Monday through Friday and on weekends as needed. Travel is required 10% of the time.

Stellantis Financial Services Inc (SFS) is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing its employees an environment that is free of harassment discrimination and intimidation. It is the policy of SFS to comply with all applicable employment laws and regulations and to provide equal opportunity for all qualified persons and to not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race color religion sex age national origin disability pregnancy sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or expression change of sex and/or transgender status or any protected status. Candidates must possess authorization to work in the United States. This policy applies to recruitment and placement promotion training transfer retention rate of pay and all other terms and conditions of employment. Employment and promotion decisions will be based solely on merit ability achievement experience conduct and other legitimate business reasons.