Charles Schwab - Austin, TX
posted 2 days ago
About the position
At Schwab, you're empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us 'challenge the status quo' and transform the finance industry together. We believe that, when done right, investing liberates people to create their own destiny. We are driven by our purpose to champion every client's goals with passion and integrity. We respect and appreciate the diversity of our employees, our clients, and the communities we serve. We challenge conventions strategically to create value for our clients, our firm and the world. We live and bring to life the concept of 'own your tomorrow' every day. We champion our employee strengths, guide their development, and invest in their long-term success. We hire optimistic, results-oriented, curious, innovative, and adaptable people with the desire to help our clients and one another succeed. As a company, we were established by Chuck over 40 years ago to champion Main Street over Wall Street, and to help Americans transform themselves from earners to owners. Through advocacy and innovation, we work to make investing more affordable, accessible and understandable for all. As we enter our fifth decade, we are looking for talented, innovative and driven people who believe they can help themselves, and our clients, create a better future.
Responsibilities
- Advance platform vision and strategy by partnering with the Platform Director and Business Analyst to build and execute roadmaps.
- Solve firm/user problems through new and/or evolved strategic enterprise capabilities, building and aligning technology partners and cross-firm business, product, architecture, and platform teams on capability vision & strategy.
- Establish strong partnerships across Product, Business Architecture, Technology and Product Owner peers to shape platform capabilities and design solutions that represent end-to-end business needs.
- Partner with the technology team leaders to execute on key components of platform evolution and agile development.
- Work in an Agile environment, continuously understanding and developing solutions for business needs, prioritizing the platform backlog, managing risks, and communicating key milestones and deliverables.
- Formulate the long-term vision and target state for platform capabilities with a prioritized Now, Next, Later plan and innovation & delivery roadmap to achieve it.
- Garner leadership, stakeholder, and user support for capability vision and firm projects via collaborating with project stakeholders and offering up applicable capabilities to design user-centric solutions that achieve business needs and meet architecture standards.
- Liaise with partners to understand and address business needs through project requirement and capability build-out; build stakeholder engagement through codified artifacts, forums, and collaboration touchpoints.
- Partner with peers to align on a single view and consolidated perspective for all platform work via proactive platform roadmap and backlog management across capabilities, projects, MLO, and health; provide stakeholders and leadership high levels of transparency into backlog, roadmap, and prioritization.
- Continuously improve team and development processes, from intake to planning.
- Accountable for successful platform roadmap implementation through Agile development and coordination with internal and external domains.
- Lead, mentor and partner with BA to drive platform roadmap execution.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree required
- 7+ years of experience leading scrum teams and driving value in a complex enterprise environment
- 5+ years of experience in a product owner role on Agile teams
Nice-to-haves
- 3+ years of experience in financial services is a plus
