Senior Product Owner

CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. Even with more than 8,500 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you.

CLA is dedicated to building a culture that invites different beliefs and perspectives to the table, so we can truly know and help our clients, communities, and each other.

CLA is growing and seeking to hire an experienced Sr. Product Owner to join our talented Enterprise IT team. The position offers growth, flexibility and a collaborative work environment.

About the role:

The Sr. Product Owner drives the product vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer needs. This role involves collaborating with business owners, leadership, engineering, UX, and research teams to define and adapt the product vision, roadmap, and growth opportunities. They develop requirements, prioritize the product backlog, lead, and participate in Agile ceremonies. The Sr. Product Owner engages in continuous discovery and delivery, leading the alignment and integration of feedback on product features, functionality, and user experience. They monitor product performance, analyze feedback, and address gaps to ensure quality and timely delivery.

How you’ll create opportunities in this Senior Product Owner role:  

• Collaborate with business owner, sponsor and leadership to define the product vision, and strategy, problems to solve, establish product OKRs and KPIs and impact of goals. Clearly communicate the product vision, strategy, goals, and requirements to the engineering, architect, research and UX teams. 
• Lead the Agile team toward outcomes rather than outputs (achieving and exceeding OKR/KPI targets).  
• Partner with the business owner, to develop the product requirements document (PRD), to articulate the product’s purpose and objectives (“what” and “why”), the product functional and non-functional requirements, flow diagram (as required) and other product artifacts as needed. Subsequently, collaborate with the architecture, engineering, and experience teams in continuous discovery and solutioning. 
• Own the product roadmap and collaborate with the business owner to prioritize the features/functions. Discuss tradeoffs, value/ROI and impact of features or functionalities. Partner with the program/project manager to establish delivery milestones and dates. 
• Decompose and adapt the product requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria. 
• Synthesize ideas, user feedback, learnings, insights and revised business needs gathered into the opportunities backlog to inform product discovery/research/innovation as well as the implementation backlog to be prioritized for delivery.  
• Lead and engage in continuous discovery and delivery with the architecture, engineering, product design (UX), research, and QA teams. Partner with these teams to perform idea and hypothesis validation, prototyping, refinement, and solutioning. Align and integrate feedback on product features, functionality, and user experience. 
• Create flows and concept sketches to communicate product vision and ideas. 
• Plan and prioritize the product backlog, epics, features, and user stories to ensure alignment with the product strategy and objectives. 
• Identify and manage product risks, assumptions, and constraints to ensure successful project execution and alignment with strategic objectives. 
• Lead and participate in Agile ceremonies, including program increments (PI), sprint planning, Inspect & Adapt, demos, reviews, and retrospectives. 
• Evaluate and track product performance (KPI), collect and interpret feedback after production, prioritize this feedback, conduct necessary investigations, and draft requirements to address any identified improvement opportunities and gaps. 
• Ensure product deliverables meet quality standards and are delivered on time.

What you will need: 

• 4 years of relevant experience required
• 4+ years of product experience, with a proven track record of successful product delivery is preferred.
• Scrum Product Owner or Agile certification preferred.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree is required. Combination of relevant experience, education, and training may be accepted in lieu of degree.
• Degree in Information Technology Business Administration or related field is preferred.

Our approach to compensation emphasizes collaboration and career growth. We pay competitive wages and view compensation as an investment in our people. Factors such as geography, experience, education, skills, and knowledge may impact position of pay within the range.

The compensation range for this position in New Jersey is: $113,000- $170,000

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Wellness at CLA

To support our CLA family members, we focus on their physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being and offer comprehensive benefit options that include health, dental, vision, 401k and much more.

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