Product Owner - Enterprise Data

Summary

Thrivent is a financial services organization offering products and services to help people achieve financial well-being. The Product Owner supports enterprise data products for corporate functions by translating product strategy into prioritized work, delivering trusted data solutions, and improving decision-making, governance, analytics, and AI-enabled experiences.

Responsibilities

• Works as a key team member on a cross functional team, responsible for continuous delivery of value to the customer through compelling and empowering customer experiences
• Collaborate with Product Manager and stakeholders to ensure work prioritization is aligned with Thrivent’s priorities and overall product roadmap as well as to provide product development feedback and direction
• Continuously innovates and evolves the product in alignment with strategic priorities. Is responsible for creating, maintaining, and evolving the product roadmap
• Maintain and refine product backlog: Create user stories and acceptance criteria and prioritize all stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum business value that align with product strategy
• Ensure stories clearly communicate the customer and stakeholder needs to meet key business objectives and strategies for the product. Is available for consultation during agile team planning and grooming sessions as needed
• Works with other product teams/owners to align product roadmaps and sprint plans, and to focus on delivering the maximum business value to the organization
• Working as a part of an agile team, ensures the team is aligned around similar goals and objectives and attending all team meetings
• Engages with customers and users on a regular basis to uncover implicit and explicit needs
• Develop and track key value drivers that measure effectiveness of product discovery and overall product performance and communicate these to stakeholders and business leaders on a regular basis
• Foster a sense of urgency to achieve goals and leverage resources to overcome unexpected obstacles
• Inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while committing to the organization’s direction (Product/Agile/DevOps)
• Models Thrivent’s leadership competencies – courage, collaboration, and commitment by demonstrating resiliency, working together to make the best decisions, and holding yourself and others accountable
• Supports and/or develops an environment in which Thrivent employees and colleagues are focused on continuous improvement, exceptional employee engagement, and an unwavering commitment to our clients. Shapes and/or supports a culture that represents the Thrivent purpose, promise and values, ensuring that Thrivent’s trust and reputation remain strong with its clients

Skills

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• 4-6 years relevant business experience
• Experience working with enterprise data products, analytics, reporting, governance, or data platform initiatives within financial services or other highly regulated industries
• Demonstrated ability to define and measure product value through business outcomes, adoption, usage, quality, efficiency, or customer impact
• Experience partnering with business leaders, data engineers, architects, analysts, and technical delivery teams
• Understand fundamentals of iterative development, software development process and procedures
• Familiarity with principles of Agile Product Management, stakeholder management, market and user research, technology management, and process design
• High level of organization and attention to detail
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, translate business problems into actionable product priorities, and facilitate alignment across multiple stakeholder groups
• Strong prioritization and tradeoff-management skills across competing stakeholder needs
• Ability to influence without direct authority across business and technology teams
• Passion and understanding of new technology and trends
• Strong communication abilities to all levels of seniority and disciplines within the organization
• Certified Product Owner or similar certification
• Experience with modern data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, Power BI or similar technologies
• Experience with data governance, metadata management, data quality, lineage, or master data management
• Experience developing business cases, roadmaps, product execution strategies
• Experience in defining high-quality business requirements and proficient in Agile story writing
• Experience with foundational product management tools, techniques and principles across discovery, design, build, release, and measure cycle
• Strong leadership skills to coordinate and motivate product teams, even outside direct reporting relationships
• Experience working in large, complex organizational initiatives

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• 4-6 years relevant business experience
• Experience working with enterprise data products, analytics, reporting, governance, or data platform initiatives within financial services or other highly regulated industries
• Demonstrated ability to define and measure product value through business outcomes, adoption, usage, quality, efficiency, or customer impact
• Experience partnering with business leaders, data engineers, architects, analysts, and technical delivery teams
• Understand fundamentals of iterative development, software development process and procedures
• Familiarity with principles of Agile Product Management, stakeholder management, market and user research, technology management, and process design
• High level of organization and attention to detail
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, translate business problems into actionable product priorities, and facilitate alignment across multiple stakeholder groups
• Strong prioritization and tradeoff-management skills across competing stakeholder needs
• Ability to influence without direct authority across business and technology teams
• Passion and understanding of new technology and trends
• Strong communication abilities to all levels of seniority and disciplines within the organization

Nice to Haves

• Certified Product Owner or similar certification
• Experience with modern data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, Power BI or similar technologies
• Experience with data governance, metadata management, data quality, lineage, or master data management
• Experience developing business cases, roadmaps, product execution strategies
• Experience in defining high-quality business requirements and proficient in Agile story writing
• Experience with foundational product management tools, techniques and principles across discovery, design, build, release, and measure cycle
• Strong leadership skills to coordinate and motivate product teams, even outside direct reporting relationships
• Experience working in large, complex organizational initiatives

Benefits

• Various bonuses, including annual or long-term incentives
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Health savings account
• Flexible spending account
• 401k
• Pension
• Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• Disability insurance
• Supplemental protection insurance
• 20 days of Paid Time Off each year
• Sick and Safe Time
• 10 paid company holidays
• Volunteer Time Off
• Paid parental leave
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Well-being benefits
• Remote work