Product Owner

Job Title: Product Owner
Location: Torrance, CA
Work Model: Onsite - Local Candidates Only - No relocation
Compensation: $131-136k

3rd Party Suppliers: Not accepting 3rd party suppliers for this role
Work Type: Onsite (4 days/week) Local candidates only - No relocation
Travel: No
Overtime: No

POSITION OVERVIEW
We are the Digital Product Team for the distinguished client Finance and Acura Finance websites and mobile app, the customer service agent console and other digital tools. Our mission is to provide exemplary customer experience to foster trust and loyalty. We value each interaction as a brand building opportunity. We apply a customer centric approach - Listen, Understand, Advocate, and Anticipate - in every channel to provide seamless and relevant service. We are looking for an entrepreneurial Product Owner to join as a key member of our digital team.

You will own responsibilities across the entire software development life cycle for projects and production support. For example, you will drive grooming sessions, capture requirements and acceptance criteria, aid the prioritization and sizing of work, prepare and perform user acceptance testing, assist field training, craft customer / field / stakeholder communications, perform demos, support launch and triage during warranty. You are as comfortable leading and collaborating with UX, marketing and training as you are working with engineering, testing, SOX, compliance and legal. You are open to ambiguity and quickly flex for changing conditions. You use outstanding written and verbal multidisciplinary communication skills and have an eagerness to make steady progress to successfully engage business and IT partners from AHFC, enterprise or external vendors.

As a Product Owner for a financial services provider, you are detail oriented and own a high level of accountability. You maintain high standards for both project launches and operational excellence through quality, cost and delivery. You are a fast learner who will become a subject matter expert on customer personas, the platform, payment flows, business rules, account conditions, etc. You will measure and analyze metrics for business cases and platform reporting

. As such, daily tasks include:
• Leading the Product team and be a subject matter expert for the Salesforce and mobile app environments
• Write clear user stories and acceptance criteria
• Work with Business and IT teams to document process flows, status reports
• Write and execute well planned test scripts for UAT and provide support of other testing workstreams. Triage. Report on testing results
• Support nationwide customer, dealer and field for operations (including the chat line and inbox), training and organizational change management
• Working with CX, business, development and testing resources to imagine, write, deliver and test user stories
• Leading initiatives. Meeting with leadership to articulate art of the possible, proposal plans and budgets to gain approvals
• Maintaining operations to meet SLAs through payments batch, deployments, maintenance and vendor releases, platform releases, incident management and troubleshooting, license management, cost management, vendor management, etc.
• Lead agile spring planning, demo, retrospective and backlog management

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
We are improving our products through large projects, enhancements and production support. Our products include:
• CLIENT AND ACURA FINANCE WEBSITES Support client Finance and Acura Finance customers in the digital web channel. Expand self-service functionality to enable customers to easily manage their accounts online
• CLIENT FINANCE MOBILE APP New channel to launch soon. To launch a mobile app channel for customers to make payments easily.
• AGENT SERVICE CONSOLE + AGENT KNOWLEDGE Customer service representatives use console to serve customer requests. Knowledge summarizes standard operating procedures to help representatives understand how best to do their jobs
• CUSTOMER COMMUNICATIONS + MARKETING CLOUD PLATFORM Customer communications via message center, email, SMS, web notifications, banner notifications and partner managed messages. Care and feeding of technical platform and templates

WHAT'S NEEDED
MUST HAVE SKILL SETS:
• CUSTOMER FACING PRODUCT EXPERIENCE.
• PAYMENTS EXCELLENCE.
• ROADMAP + DECISION MAKING.
• PEOPLE SKILLS PLATFORM STRATEGY.
MINIMUM EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
• BA/BS degree
• Agile certification for Product Owner or Scrum Master (PREFER SAFe Agile)
• Salesforce certifications (PREFERRED). Else ability to gain Salesforce admin certification by year 1
BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:
• 3-5 years of product management, product development or product operations experience with customer facing top brand (Fortune 500) digital product
• 3-5 years of leadership experience, managing mixed teams: business / IT, internal / external, onshore / nearshore / offshore
• 1-2 years of roadmap and business planning experience. Experience driving procurement process from identification of options, evaluations and RFI/RFP selection of tools and vendors
• 1-2 years of direct leadership experience, managing associates (PREFERRED)
• 2 years of payments, financial services or captive finance industry experience
• Mobile app experience (PREFERRED)

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Other standard benefits as applicable

ABOUT UNICON
UNICON is a workforce solutions provider with over 35 years of experience supporting organizations across a variety of industries. We partner with our clients to deliver skilled professionals while maintaining a strong focus on quality, compliance, and long-term relationships. UNICON is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.