Product Owner II (US)

Work Location: Mount Laurel, New Jersey, United States of America Hours: 40 Pay Details: $115,440 - $173,160 USD TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs. As a candidate, you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions and have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide you more specific details for this role. Line of Business: Enterprise Enabling Functions Job Description: The Product Owner II is responsible to ensure that a development team (pod) or multiple development teams (pods) are creating value for the organization through the delivery of customer-focused product increments. This entails aligning with other Product Owners and senior management to follow a product vision, creating and maintaining a prioritized product backlog, managing delivery blockers, continuously assessing customer feedback. The Product Owner II should always be considering how to maximize value, assessing how the product or the delivery process can be continuously improved, contributes to a positive work environment and ensures that work embodies the Agile principles of transparency, collaboration and engagement. Depth & Scope: Provides people management leadership by hiring the best talent, setting goals, developing staff, managing employee performance and compensation decisions, promoting teamwork and handling any/all disciplinary actions, as required Deep expertise requiring significant in-depth and/or breadth of expertise in a complex field and knowledge of broader related areas Accountable for specialized product development support based on deep product expertise and expert knowledge of Agile/Scrum processes, roles and practices Senior specialist providing advisory services to executives, business segment leaders and governs the requirements for own work Integrates knowledge of the enterprise function’s or business segment’s overarching strategy in leading program design, policy formulation or operating standards within one or more areas of expertise Anticipates emerging business trends and regulatory/risk issues as a basis for recommending large-scale product, technical, functional or operations improvements Advises on execution strategy and leads the development and deployment of functional programs or initiatives within their own field or across multiple specialties Solves unique and ambiguous problems with broad impact; typically oversees standards, controls and operating methods that have significant financial and operational impact within the context of their own field Requires innovative thinking to develop new solutions Impacts the technical or functional direction and resource allocation of part of an enterprise function or business segment Engages stakeholders to take action; serves as a source of expert advice, influences change; frames information in a broader organizational context Provides leadership guidance, make recommendations and collaborate with business to ensure solutions meets the business needs on a complex project or program Education & Experience: Undergraduate degree and / or product certificate required Graduate degree preferred 10+ years relevant experience 5-7 years Product Owner or Agile related delivery experience Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certification and project management experience considered an asset Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certifications or experience operating in scaled agile delivery considered an asset Preferred Qualifications: SAFe/Agile Certification Experience with financial service and deposit products Willingness to develop direct reports in the future Customer Accountabilities: Partners with senior management to support the delivery of a product vision In alignment with the product vision, create and maintain a product backlog and continuously re-prioritize user stories that will provide the most customer or end user value Continuously aligns with senior management on the product delivery roadmap, defined Minimum Marketable Features or Minimum Viable Products and release cadence Reviews performance analytics; recommend and champion strategies to enhance the customer or end user product experience Participates in scrum or Kanban events (e.g. stand-ups, retrospectives), express new ideas for improving product value or delivery efficiency, sharing with leadership as appropriate Proactively engages established business process partners to ensure customers or end users are prepared for application changes and establish Day 2 processes Creates a value-focused product backlog and continuously iterate, ensuring there are user stories scoped and prioritized Provides user story design, development and completion oversight; accepting / rejecting user stories based on the agreed upon Definition of Done and Acceptance Criteria Manages delivery initiatives and (depending on complexity) oversee multiple development team (pod) backlogs Proactively raises issues that impede the efficient delivery of customer-focused increments Responsible for defect management and prioritization Shareholder Accountabilities: Ensures team adheres to enterprise frameworks and methodologies related to overall business management activities Leads relationships with corporate and/or control functions to ensure alignment with enterprise and/or regulatory requirements Supports team in staying knowledgeable on emerging issues, trends and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts to the Bank Assesses / identifies key issues and escalate to appropriate levels and relevant stakeholders and business management where required Leads the submission and discussion on the Quarterly Business Review, with respect to their product Identifies, mitigates and reports on risk issues per enterprise policy / guidance and ensures appropriate escalation processes are followed Ensures business operations are in compliance with applicable internal and external requirements (e.g. financial controls, segregation of duties, transaction approvals and physical control of assets) Leads relationships with business lines / corporate and/or control functions to ensure alignment with enterprise and/or regulatory requirements Leads or contribute to cross-functional / enterprise initiatives as an organizational or subject matter expert helping to identify risk / provide guidance for complex situations Defines the OKRs in partnership with numerous stakeholders across the organization Protects the interests of the organization – identify and manage risks, and escalate non-standard, high risk transactions / activities as necessary Manages oversight process, risk-based identification and monitoring of related risks and regulatory compliance across the supported functions, while ensuring key controls and processes are effectively managed Oversees or leads the facilitation and/or implementation of action / remediation plans to address performance / risk / governance issues Keeps abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts Maintains a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite Employee/Team Accountabilities: Contributes to the development of business segment and/or enterprise functional strategic priorities within their operational area or field of specialty Develops annual and/or long-term plans for own area and influences plans well beyond area managed Responsible for management of the overall team providing both leadership and guidance Sets targets and objectives for the team, and deliver results Grows team expertise to align with business/enterprise demand and direction; assess team skills and capabilities and continually look for ways to provide and enhance the value delivered Leads a high performing team; provide on-going feedback and performance reviews, coach and develop employees and ensure performance management activities are undertaken and provide regular input into employee assessments and development plans Leads the process of setting performance objectives for the team; track, monitor and effectively address and/or reward performance in a timely manner Manages employees in compliance with all human resources policies, procedures and guidelines of conduct Shares knowledge, information, skills, and subject matter expertise among the team and ensure the timely communication of issues and encourage good working relationships with other functions and teams Supports an environment where team freely escalates business challenges; facilitate change through positive reinforcement of milestones and successes Recruits for all hires to ensure a highly diverse, qualified workforce to achieve business objectives Establishes and fosters a cohesive team; promote a fair and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce and encourage the team to achieve common goals and objectives Acts as a brand ambassador for the business area/function and the bank, both internally and/or externally Physical Requirements: Never: 0%; Occasional: 1-33%; Frequent: 34-66%; Continuous: 67-100% Domestic Travel – Occasional International Travel – Never Performing sedentary work – Continuous Performing multiple tasks – Continuous Operating standard office equipment - Continuous Responding quickly to sounds – Occasional Sitting – Continuous Standing – Occasional Walking – Occasional Moving safely in confined spaces – Occasional Lifting/Carrying (under 25 lbs.) – Occasional Lifting/Carrying (over 25 lbs.) – Never Squatting – Occasional Bending – Occasional Kneeling – Never Crawling – Never Climbing – Never Reaching overhead – Never Reaching forward – Occasional Pushing – Never Pulling – Never Twisting – Never Concentrating for long periods of time – Continuous Applying common sense to deal with problems involving standardized situations – Continuous Reading, writing and comprehending instructions – Continuous Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing – Continuous The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. 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