Job Description

Position Summary

Director, Product Owners at Ascensus leads a team of Product Owners across multiple product lines, partnering with business stakeholders and ensuring delivery of the firms highest priorities in a fastpaced agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for overall management of up to 15 Product Owners; oversight of interactions with stakeholders, scrum teams, and other key contributors as well as responsibility for managing and optimizing resource allocation to execute on the product vision and roadmap.
• Partners with key business stakeholders from various channels to ensure knowledge of requests and relative priority.
• Holds the Product Owners accountable for ensuring clear vision and goals at the start of every sprint.
• Promotes ongoing customer engagement via various methods including monthly release readouts.
• Participates in overall agile organizational assessment and advocates for alignment between Ascensus business units.
• Develops the appropriate training program for product owners to support culture of continuous learning and to ensure continued agile maturity.
• Supports Ascensus IClient service philosophy and our Core Values of People Matter, Quality First and Integrity Always. These should be visible in your actions on a daytoday basis showing your support of our organizational culture.
• Responsible for protecting, securing, and properly handling all confidential data held by Ascensus to ensure against unauthorized access, improper transmission, and/or unapproved disclosure of information that could result in harm to Ascensus or our clients.
• Leads overall inspect and adapt philosophy across all ceremonies and interactions.
• Assist with other tasks and projects as assigned.

Supervision

• Motivate, provide direction, support and mentoring to the chapter and assist team members.
• Ensure policies and procedures are followed by associates.
• Screen candidates for potential employment and make final hiring decisions and/or recommendations for the department.
• Use decisionmaking skills to work through difficult situations in conjunction with partners and other functional units across the organization.
• Mentor staff.
• Ensure compliance with all company and industry policies and regulations.
• Write and deliver performance evaluations to each chapter member.
• Provide management of staff in a matrix environment.

Experience, Skills, Knowledge Requirements

• Bachelors Degree required.
• A minimum of 12 years of business experience.
• A minimum of 5 years of Agile/Scrum processes and best practices preferred.
• A minimum of 5 years of management experience of associates.
• Experience with webbased applications and interface conventions.
• Proficient with MS Office: Word and Excel, as well as working with industrystandard and agile measurement tools such as JIRA, Aha!, Sharepoint.
• Familiarity with financial systems and participant transaction processing is preferred, especially retirement plans.
• Strong communication skills, especially the ability to translate technical terms into business terms as well as with written documentation.
• Must be detailoriented and analytical.
• Must possess the drive to solve problems and improve inefficient processes; lead the team to think of creative/innovative solutions.
• Proven ability to quickly grasp information and independently produce results.
• Demonstrated success in facilitating or leading meetings with internal stakeholders and a strong need to influence.

Salary and Benefits

The national average salary range for this role is $140160k in base pay, exclusive of any bonuses and benefits. Other rewards and benefits may include: 401(k) match, Medical, Dental, Vision, PaidTimeOff, etc. For more information, please visit careers.ascensus.com/#Benefits.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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