Associate Principal, Product Owner Job at Options Clearing Corporation, Dallas, TX

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  • Options Clearing Corporation
  • Dallas, TX

Job Description

What You'll Do:

The Technical Product Owner is responsible for product delivery in the software lifecycle process. This role is responsible for collaborating with business and technical stakeholders to generate business and technical requirements. This includes enhancements to existing functionality of key systems while ensuring that requested updates meet compliance and security requirements. The Technical Product Owner is responsible for reviewing and/or participating in the completion of security analysis, compliance review and documentation, technical design, development configuration and QA and UAT testing of system changes.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

Proven leadership to drive cross functional teams to a consensus and manage groups without direct authority

Establish shared vision across the company by building consensus on priorities leading to product execution

Demonstrated leadership in identifying and facilitating resolution of issues relative to agile change management, technical implementation and vendor relationship management

Leading governance and roadmap planning with all stakeholders, including upper management

Provides effective and clear status updates to the business and IT management

Initiates and facilitates conversations between the business and technology teams to identify and refine scope, confirm acceptance criteria, and approve proposed technical solutions

Manage sprint backlogs through collaboration with stakeholders

Manage product roadmap(s) by working with stakeholders to prioritize features and identify dependencies

Drive product development with a team of business users, technology, creative and UX, and analytics team members to ideate, build, test and launch new features

Integrate usability studies, research and market analysis into product requirements to enhance user satisfaction

Collaborate with stakeholders to create documentation to support compliance, security and technology requirements

Collaborate with stakeholders to create documentation to support software change management including user stories, use cases and feature specifications to detail how products and product features should be built

Create and maintain change management documentation for updates and releases to the production environment

Ownership, setup and regular review of Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager with associated websites

Kanban and Scrum board management utilizing agile project management methodologies

Vendor relationship manager responsible for third party risk and security reviews, invoice and account management

Provide leadership, share knowledge, mentor team members, and provide coaching as needed

Stay current on emerging technology trends

Define and analyze metrics that inform the success of products

Participate in the "Lessons Learned"/Retrospective process to provide information to help OCC improve practices, methodologies, tools, technologies, and programming languages

Make updates to websites using content management system (CMS) and/or Sharepoint and provide training to business partners on how to update websites using CMS tools

Participate on various technical focus groups for various initiatives and provide input and feedback to management

Complies with, and takes the initiative to contribute and optimize Policies, Procedures and Job Aids

Performs other duties as assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities:

N/A

Qualifications:

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.

Experience in a regulated business and/or technical environment with an established compliance and security posture

Demonstrated experience with Confluence and Jira

Demonstrated knowledge and experience with Agile methodologies for software lifecycle management

Preferred experience in the following technologies: Sharepoint, Kentico, Salesforce, Pardot, and Sendgrid

Preferred experience with Content Management Systems (CMS) and Learning Management Systems (LMS)

A creative, technical expert who possesses business acumen to help create innovative and modern products for our users

Seamlessly collaborates with technology, creative and UX, analytics and business teams to drive a robust product management process from discovery to development to launch

Experience in technology improvement, road mapping and product development

A leader who will develop customer-focused and innovative solutions to complex problems inspiring stakeholders and supporting a robust product strategy

Strong presentation and communication skills

Strong analytical skills with an interest in developing innovative solutions

Strong written and verbal communication skills are critical, including the ability to discuss technical concepts with non-technical personnel

Self-managed and motivated; organized and detail-oriented

Understand web development standard practices and processes

Ability to follow through with tasks to their completion

Readiness to learn new technologies and analytical tools

Technical Skills:

Project Management

Proficient in Jira and Confluence

Experience with a content management system, such as Kentico or WordPress

Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager preferred

Microsoft Office Tools

Education and/or Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Project Management or equivalent combination of education and work experience

3-5 years working in role as Product Owner, Project Manager, Business Analyst, Customer Service and Relationships, Agile Scrum Master or Agile Coach

3-5 years working as a business or system analyst (BA/SA)

Certificates or Licenses:

Product Owner or Scrum Master Certification preferred

Project Management Institute (PMI) certifications (PMI-PMP or PMI-ACP) preferred

Who We Are

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at

What We Offer

A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:

A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work

Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education

Student Loan Repayment Assistance

Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely

Generous PTO and Parental leave

Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

Step 1
When you find a position you're interested in, click the 'Apply' button. Please complete the application and attach your resume.

Step 2
You will receive an email notification to confirm that we've received your application.

Step 3
If you are called in for an interview, a representative from OCC will contact you to set up a date, time, and location.

For more information about OCC, please click here.

OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Job Tags

Full time, Work experience placement, 2 days per week,

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