Agile Product Owner

Thank you for your interest in a career at Regions. At Regions, we believe associates deserve more than just a job. We believe in offering performance-driven individuals a place where they can build a career --- a place to expect more opportunities. If you are focused on results, dedicated to quality, strength and integrity, and possess the drive to succeed, then we are your employer of choice.

At Regions, the Agile Product Owner represents business stakeholders to elicit, understand, analyze, document, refine and communicate business needs, so that business and/or technical delivery teams can build effective solutions.

Primary Responsibilities

• Partners with sponsors, stakeholders, and Information Technology to facilitate, define and document relevant business processes, gaining an understanding of the needs, measures, and risks and controls for the improvement area
• Works with management and other stakeholders to understand and validate business strategy and vision and customer needs
• Works independently on medium to large complexity efforts, or in support of a Senior or Lead on larger efforts
• Works with the business process owners to manage and track benefits, adoption and risks to operations
• Oversees project level plans related to schedule, scope and resources
• Reviews, and when appropriate, accepts and prioritizes feedback and new requirements from stakeholders
• Reviews and accepts or declines output of development to ensure specified acceptance criteria have been completed
• Provides just-in-time story elaboration to designers, business analysts, developers, testers and others to develop, execute and release in alignment with program and/or product roadmaps
• Serves as the content authority on an Agile team by maintaining a prioritized backlog of stories and providing continual business guidance for the execution team

This position is exempt from timekeeping requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not eligible for overtime pay.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business or a related field and seven (7) years of relevant experience in process improvement, project delivery, business/requirements analysis or business operations/product line

Preferences

• SAFe Practitioner (SP), SAFe Agilist, or SAFe Product Owner/Manager certification

Skills and Competencies

• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks under pressure
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
• Experience in Process Engineering methodologies and Change Management practices
• Familiarity or working knowledge with multiple technical software delivery methodologies (i.e., Agile, Waterfall)
• Proven ability to utilize data and analytics to formulate recommendations, solve business problems, and drive business improvements
• Strong customer service orientation

Regions will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position at this time. Applicants for this position must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

This position is intended to be onsite, now or in the near future. Associates will have regular work hours, including full days in the office three or more days a week.  The manager will set the work schedule for this position, including in-office expectations.  Regions will not provide relocation assistance for this position, and relocation would be at your expense. The locations available for this role are Birmingham, AL, Atlanta, GA, Charlotte, NC.

Compensation Details

Pay ranges are job specific and are provided as a point-of-market reference for compensation decisions. Other factors which directly impact pay for individual associates include: experience, skills, knowledge, contribution, job location and, most importantly, performance in the job role. As these factors vary by individuals, pay will also vary among individual associates within the same job.

The target information listed below is based on the Metropolitan Statistical Area Market Range for where the position is located and level of the position.

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Equal Opportunity Employer/including Disabled/Veterans

Job applications at Regions are accepted electronically through our career site for a minimum of five business days from the date of posting. Job postings for higher-volume positions may remain active for longer than the minimum period due to business need and may be closed at any time thereafter at the discretion of the company.