Product Owner

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.

What we do: 

The Federal Reserve Financial Services organization (FRFS) is responsible for software development, quality assurance testing, and day-to-day production operations of the FedCash product suite.

In this role the FRFS, in consultation with other System stakeholders, helps to set the strategic direction for US central bank payment services, coordinates product enhancements impacting the services and their customers, and ensures that operating sites meet service level agreements for resiliency and performance.

The Product Owner is aligned with the Business Product Management and understands the product vision, goals, and roadmap.  They translate business wants and needs into a prioritized set of requirements by conducting business process analysis, needs assessments, and preliminary cost/benefits analyses to align with a robust information technology roadmap.

 They manage and prioritize the team’s backlog accordingly and lead their respective Agile team in delivering most important customer/stakeholder outcomes.  Product Owners may also prepare functional, system and program specifications and assist in implementation of systems, as well as participate in System initiatives and/or workgroups.

Your role as Product Owner:

A successful candidate will be a leader with experience operating in complex organizations and delivering well supported solutions.  The Product Owner must:


* Continuously learn about the customer, their business needs, and contribution of the product to their desired outcomes


* Work with Product Management to communicate, re-enforce the vision, goals, and product roadmap, in the form of features/stories with the Agile team.


* Possess enough business and technical knowledge about the product to engage in team discussions.


* Work closely with architecture, engineering, and quality assurance to ensure the right customer problem is solved.


* Communicate with both technical and business stakeholders to understand and gather requirements and translate into technical specification when necessary.


* Decompose and prioritize epics/features into user stories and define detailed test acceptance criteria.


* Ensure technology-driven and risk-remediation requirements are prioritized to prevent the accumulation of technical debt and ot...