Product Owner

Product Owner

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As a Rocket Companies team member, you?re empowered to make an impact, employ your entrepreneurial spirit, and build a career customized by you because ? At Rocket, You Can.

Our company is at an exciting inflection point ? we?re on the path to build out and scale an entire platform across multiple businesses, thereby, creating certainty in life?s complex moments for our clients. Our team members are change agents who combine strategic decision-making with strong execution in an environment of constantly changing markets and consumer demands.?

We are tackling the biggest problems at scale that need solving from innovators like yourself ? those seeking to challenge the status quo, dive deeply into technology, solve client issues, and leverage our tech products to deliver distinct, innovative solutions. Not only will you become part of the team reshaping the fintech industry, you will also have opportunities to contribute to our mission, which transcends far beyond the bottom line and into the communities in which we live and work.?

Minimum Qualifications

• 3 years of experience or equivalent competency analyzing, designing and changing business processes
  
• 2 years of experience or equivalent competency in product ownership or other role that defines requirements
  
• Bachelor?s degree or equivalent competency in information technology, business management, marketing or a related field
  
• Experience advocating on behalf of products, using deliberate, accurate and persuasive language
  
• Experience negotiating and constructively handling disagreement to find mutual definitions of success
  
• Experience collecting and using data to make strategic decisions
  
• Experience documenting user interactions, processes or procedures
  
• Experience writing quality work items with testable acceptance criteria and a clear value proposition
  
• Ability to define, manage and measure product success
  
• Ability to collect and translate user feedback into requirements for technical teams
  
• Ability to learn the underlying technologies of a software product
  
• Ability to train and mentor
  
• Familiarity with current and emerging technologies
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Certification in Agile practices
  
• Product Owner certification, such as Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
  
• Experience with Behavior Driven Development (BDD) practices, such as feature mapping
  
• Experience developing work items for software engineering, data engineering or data science teams
  
• Experience with financial institutions, the mortgage industry or the fintech industry
  

Job Summary
As a Product Owner, you'll guide the success of digital products by defining, prioritizing and accepting work as completed in all phases of the product lifecycle. In this role, you'll combine business goals, product knowledge and data to contribute to the product's roadmap and vision. For each iteration of a product release, you'll confirm that development work meets requirements to ensure product success and delivery of business value.

Responsibilities

• Understand the product's business value, such as the conditions under which it is used, audience and the business problem(s) it solves for
  
• Understand the product's underlying technology, such as capabilities, limitations and system dependencies
  
• Contribute to the product vision and roadmap, ensuring that solutions achieve desired outcomes
  
• Maintain a healthy and prioritized product backlog to support a continuous flow of value
  
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business and technical investment decisions into work items
  
• Ensure that acceptance criteria are met prior to deployment
  
• Integrate usability research, product data analysis, technical stakeholder ideas and client feedback into requirements
  
• Proactively address risks, scope creep and dependencies for work items
  
• Determine the priority of technical debt, technical investment work and client requests
  
• Understand and anticipate user needs and wants through user research and product data evaluation
  
• Enable an intuitive user experience through functional requirements and non-functional requirements
  
• Build and maintain relationships with client stakeholders and technical stakeholders
  
• Act as the voice of the client, speaking to the business value, requirements and scope of upcoming work
  

Who We Are
Rocket Companies? is a Detroit-based company made up of businesses that provide simple, fast and trusted digital solutions for complex transactions. The name comes from our flagship business, now known as Rocket Mortgage?, which was founded in 1985. Today, we?re a publicly traded company involved in many different industries, including mortgages, fintech, real estate, automotive and more. We?re insistently different in how we look at the world and are committed to an inclusive workplace where every voice is heard. We?re passionate about the work we do, and it shows. We?ve been ranked #7 on Fortune?s list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2022, as well as ranking #1 for Fortune?s Best Large Workplaces in Financial Services and Insurance List in 2021.

Disclaimer
This is an outline of the primary responsibilities of this position. As with everything in life, things change. The tasks and responsibilities can be changed, added to, removed, amended, deleted and modified at any time by the leadership group.

We are proud equal opportunity employers and committed to providing an inclusive environment based on mutual respect for all candidates and team members. Employment decisions, including hiring decisions, are not based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. We also provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with state and federal law.

Colorado Candidates Only. Pursuant to the disclosure requirements of C.R.S. ? 8-5-101, et seq., the minimum salary for this position for candidates in Colorado is approximately sixty-one thousand dollars.? The position may also be eligible for an annual bonus and other employment-related benefits.? The information regarding compensation and other benefits included in this paragraph is only an estimate and is subject to revision from time to time as the Company, in its sole and exclusive discretion, deems appropriate.? The Company may determine during its review of the proposed minimum compensation and benefits provided for this position, that the compensation and benefits for such position should be reduced.? In no event will the Company reduce the compensation for the position to a level below the applicable jurisdictional minimum wage rate for the position.? The Company is a proud equal opportunity employer and committed to providing an inclusive environment based on mutual respect for all candidates and team members.