Product Owner/ Product Manager

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

We are the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco—public servants with a mission to advance the nation’s monetary, financial, and payment systems to build a stronger economy for all Americans. We are a community-engaged bank, and are committed to understanding and serving the vibrant, expansive communities of the Twelfth District. That means we seek and appreciate new perspectives. We respect people for what they do and for who they are. We build opportunities to learn and grow. When you join the SF Fed, you become part of a diverse team united in its purpose to promote an economy that works for everyone.

This role is responsible for driving the delivery of technology initiative of revamping Identity and Access Management (IAM) processes by defining and prioritizing deliverables in the product and articulating this to both business stakeholders and technology development teams. This role will also be responsible for performing research to drive business decisions, diagnose problems and recommend action plans to remediate issues.

The selected candidate will be responsible for defining and directing product design and delivery to align with end user needs/wants with the new IAM application, with guidance from Product Manager(s). More specifically, this role is responsible for maximizing business value for IAM Modernization.

We empower our people to balance their life and work responsibilities. That’s why we offer a flexible hybrid work model that allows you to collaborate with office colleagues on some days, and work from home on others.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist Product Manager in defining the vision and roadmap for the product in a scaled Agile model, to ensure there is alignment
• Collaborate with customers and stakeholders to understand their needs and problems
• Communicate the product vision and roadmap to stakeholders and team
• Defining and prioritizing stories in the team product backlog
• Assist the Product manager in collaborating with the ART/Program feature backlog
• Builds and prioritizes stories in the product/team backlog, learning to collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Facilitates team planning ceremonies for backlog/prioritized work.
• Participate in agile ceremonies
• Build, prepare, prioritize, maintain, and accept user stories
• Translating product managers’ strategies to tasks for development
• Support the team in delivering value and prioritize sprint activities
• Validating deliverables meet acceptance criteria
• Serving as a liaison between product stakeholders and development teams
• Evaluating customer and team feedback after each iteration

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or MBA in information systems, business administration, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• The product owner typically requires three or more years of proven experience within an agile team environment. The Associate Product Manager typically requires five or more years of product manager experience.
• Ability to identify, escalate and communicate issues and progress to management in an effective and succinct manner
• Working knowledge of Agile development methodologies as well as product management and/or product owner experience.
• SAFE Agile Product Owner Product Manager Certification POPM (or equivalent CSPO / PSPO)
• Experienced in leading customer engagement, with proven background in being a customer advocate
• Lean-Agile Leadership Mindset and able to mentor agile principles.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple and significantly complex projects and assignments in a production environment with a high level of autonomy and accountability for results
• High organizational agility and ability of representing the product development team in communication with the senior leadership.
• Working experience with agile software development tools such as Jira, Rally, and/or etc.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen or Green card holder with intent to become U.S. Citizen

Salary:

Base salary for Associate Product Manager: Min: $97,600 - Mid: $126,800 - Max: $155,900

Base salary for Product Manager: Min: $113,600 - Mid: $147,600 - Max: $181,600

Final salary and offer will be determined by the applicant’s background, experience, skills, internal equity, and alignment with market data.

We offer a wonderful benefits package including: Medical, Dental, Vision, Pre-tax Flexible Spending Account, Backup Child Care Program, Pre-Tax Day Care Flexible Spending Account, Paid Family Care Leave, Vacation Days, Sick Days, Paid Holidays, Pet Insurance, Matching 401(k), and Retirement/Pension.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. The SF Fed is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

#LI-Hybrid

Full Time / Part Time: Full time

Regular / Temporary: Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No): Yes

Job Category: Other

Work Shift: First (United States of America)

The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.