Program Manager Contractor: 6-9 years (Advanced)

Job Title: Product Owner
Location: Dallas, TX (Hybrid)

Description:
The services You will provide the Client project team: As a Program Manager Contractor, you will be responsible for overseeing and coordinating various aspects of project execution to ensure successful delivery. Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, and budgets. Monitor project progress and performance, identifying and addressing any issues or risks. Coordinate communication and collaboration among project stakeholders. Ensure project deliverables meet quality standards and client expectations. Prepare and present regular project status reports to stakeholders.
 
Product Owner
 
A Product Owner (PO) for corporate finance products owns the day-to-day delivery of finance capabilities within a digital product team, translating business outcomes into a prioritized product backlog and clear user stories. The PO partners with Finance stakeholders, Product Management, Engineering, and Risk/Compliance to refine requirements, define acceptance criteria, manage dependencies, support testing and release readiness, and ensure delivered features improve finance processes, controls, and reporting.
 
Summary:
We are seeking experienced Product Owner(s) to join the Corporate Finance Portfolio at a large wealth management client to translate product vision into an actionable backlog and lead day-to-day delivery of innovative, industry-leading Digital Finance capabilities across Core Finance, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Expenditure Management, Branch Economics, Financial Advisor compensation, and Financial Advisor teaming/partnerships.
 
What you will be doing
Own and manage the product backlog for assigned product areas and value streams within the Digital Finance Portfolio, acting as the day-to-day owner of related capabilities and outcomes. Translate portfolio/product strategy into features, and user stories with clear acceptance criteria, and prioritize work to align with firm objectives, business needs, and market trends.
 
Identify and size opportunities in partnership with stakeholders;support business case development by documenting problem statements, expected value, assumptions, dependencies, and risks. Define and socialize success metrics for backlog items, review outcomes post-release, and continuously refine priorities based on data and stakeholder feedback.
•Drive clarity, decisions, and acceptance to enable delivery of complex enhancements and new capabilities by driving requirements clarity, scope tradeoffs, and release readiness to meet evolving needs across Branch teams, Financial Advisors, and Financial Analysts.
•Partner with cross-functional teams (technology, operations, business, compliance, legal, risk) to plan and execute increments, improve usability and efficiency, remove blockers, and ensure high-quality outcomes through effective testing and acceptance
•Own the Team Product Backlog refinement and prioritization by ensuring backlog is refined, sized, dependency-aware.
•Confirm acceptance criteria, NFRs, and control requirements for planned scope.
•Own the Team Product Backlog for assigned Digital Finance capabilities;prioritize, refine, and maintain readiness (stories, defects, enablers) aligned to PI Objectives and firm goals.
•Partner with Product Management to translate portfolio/product strategy into features and stories;define clear acceptance criteria, NFRs, and control/audit requirements.
•Drive discovery and sizing inputs with stakeholders;document problem statements, value hypotheses, assumptions, dependencies, and risks;support business case materials and prioritization decisions.
•Define and socialize success metrics;validate outcomes post-release using data and stakeholder feedback;continuously adjust backlog priorities.
•Enable sprint and PI execution by setting Sprint Goals, making scope tradeoffs, resolving requirement ambiguities quickly, and maintaining a decision log.
•Coordinate cross-functional alignment (technology, operations, compliance, legal, risk) to ensure testability, acceptance, release readiness, and operational handoffs.
•Support PI Planning by presenting/refining team scope, negotiating dependencies, and drafting team PI Objective inputs and capacity-based scope proposals.
•Translate product intent into a clear Sprint Goal and top outcomes (what success looks like)