• Business Expertise: Partners with peer group, business partners and product management to learn business area/domain, while continuing to learn and grow knowledge across the enterprise.
• Technical Expertise: Does independent data analysis by extracting and querying data from data sources and create data analysis artifacts. Interpret technical design/architecture/data models and work with the engineers to define the technical user stories. Should apply BDD acceptance criteria in user stories.
• Current State, Future State and Gap Analysis: Document and assess current state in a few processes, or single business area / domain. Assist with task-based work items in more complex situations.
• Gather Requirements: Responsible for fact-based requirement gathering, including all system, technical and intake requests.
• Author User Stories and/or Features: Author user stories and/or features independently with low to medium complexity while participating in some task-based work in higher complexity situations. Assist throughout the development process as needs arise.
• Test Plan Review: Assist with coordinating and reviewing test plans for smaller or non-complex efforts. Independently provide execution on testing as needed (UAT, checkouts, etc.) Work with the Test engineers to review and sign off on test results.
• Project Management: Ability to use project management principles to successfully complete and advance work

• Payments and banking experience
• Ability to lean on strong communication skills to influence outcomes while approaching conflict with organizational savviness
• Experience with SQL, Postman, AWS and testing frameworks is a huge plus!
• Domain expertise via previous internships or similar roles in the past.
• Certifications demonstrating mastery of role specific competencies
• Deep familiarity of agile & scrum development environments
• Solves problems in straightforward situations; analyzes possible solutions using technical experience and judgment and precedents

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• 4-5 Years of prior experience with at least 4 working in a Product Management Role, with agile team experience.
• Knowledge Preferred: formal business analyst, engineering or testing experience, knowledge of the financial services industry, familiar with BI tools, certification or experience with Product Owner or Scrum Master role.
• Must have demonstrated cross functional work in previous experience along with strong communication skills, time management, project management skills, business acumen and high self-awareness/EQ.
• Demonstrated previous research experience, influence skills, initial leadership exposure, ability to translate product requirements into technical requirements, and work in ambiguity and solutioning.
• Solves complex problems; take a new perspective on existing solutions; exercise judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information.

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