YOUR Why

We’re seeking a strategic, action-oriented Product Owner to help shape the future of our client’s digital products. In this high-impact role, you’ll work hand-in-hand with Product Managers and Agile delivery teams to prioritize, plan, and optimize initiatives that deliver real value to the Bank and its customers. You’ll turn big ideas into detailed, actionable stories in Azure DevOps, keeping the backlog aligned with business goals and SAFe Agile best practices. If you're skilled at balancing the big picture with the finer details, love driving cross-functional collaboration, and thrive in fast-paced, high-stakes environments, this is your moment! Bring your experience, your voice, and your passion for building scalable, streamlined solutions.

How YOU Will Spend YOUR Days

• Manage planning and delivery of key themes, translating objectives and deliverables into Epics, Features, and User Stories. Works with Delivery teams to organize and prioritize work efforts through Planning Increments.

• Drive product objectives with business outcomes and success metrics, design thinking, customer feedback, and competitive analysis.

• Craft epics, features, and user stories for the enterprise capability, working directly with the delivery teams to deliver value.

• Collaborate cross-functionally to coordinate and manage resources and activities, maximizing impact and overall return on investment.

• Work across teams to ascertain, review, and address the effectiveness and optimization challenges, and work with Leadership and across the governance structure to mitigate and resolve risks and issues relating to: associate engagement, behaviors, knowledge and skills, organizational priorities and/or dependencies, change, and process improvement challenges.

• Interface with key stakeholders to deliver the necessary pieces of our product with time-to-market excellence.

• Responsible for understanding the market and farm credit’s niche landscape to maintain competitiveness. Ensure product compliance with bank policies and regulatory standards. Maintain expertise regarding competition, best practices, and benchmarks.

• Analyze customer feedback to identify customer successes and frustrations to improve the product and customer experience.

• Gather and evaluate data to solve complicated problems rationally through critical thinking, logical reasoning, data analysis, and research.

What YOU Bring

• Experience with transformation programs and organizing large efforts into achievable deliverables.

• Proven experience working with technology, data teams, user experience teams, and key stakeholders in creating and delivering value.

• Ability to create, maintain, prioritize, and sequence the product backlog based on business value/ROI.

• Proven ability to think strategically and develop roadmaps for products and services.

• Ability to solve complex problems and develop Epics, Features, and User Stories to effectively communicate the ‘Whys’ and ‘Whats’ across all levels of the organization.

• Proven ability to establish, align, and engage processes with strategic direction, goals, and initiatives.

• Proven ability to successfully manage significant priorities at one time, identifying risk areas, proactively determining appropriate mitigation strategies, managing change management and process obstacles, and presenting alternatives for issue resolution.

• Ability to work independently with minimal guidance, working toward strategic objectives, delivery plans, and milestone goals, as well as collaboratively in a team environment.

• Demonstrated critical thinking, problem-solving solving and conflict management skills.

• Exceptional verbal and written communication and presentation skills, with demonstrated ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences. Excellent active listening skills.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to lead teams, work collaboratively, and build and maintain effective working relationships with all levels of associates, management, and internal customers across the bank, as well as external vendors and other stakeholders.

• Excellent organizational and time management skills, with the ability to deliver commitments while juggling multiple projects and priorities. Ability to work effectively under deadline pressures and adjust quickly and effectively to changing priorities.

• Knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel) and Azure DevOps, ServiceNow.

Location: Hybrid (3 days a week onsite) in Denver, CO - local candidates only

Compensation: W2 60.00 per hour (6-month contract with possibility of hiring)

No third parties: no C2C or sponsorship available