Job Description

Position Summary

A Data and Application Product Owner is responsible for defining, prioritizing, and managing the development and delivery of data-driven and application-based products within the organization. This role acts as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, technical teams, and end users to ensure that products meet business objectives and deliver value. Key responsibilities include gathering and prioritizing requirements, maintaining a product backlog, setting the product vision and roadmap, and ensuring successful product releases. The Product Owner collaborates closely with crossfunctional teams, including data engineers, software developers, analysts, and business leaders, to translate business needs into actionable technical solutions. Success in this role requires strong communication, analytical, and project management skills, as well as a solid understanding of data management, application development, and agile methodologies. This role is currently based in our Chicago or New York City office, fulltime.

Responsibilities

• Champion efforts to attain product vision and objectives
• Develop and document business requirements with input from the business and other key stakeholders
• Facilitate and drive alignment among key stakeholders
• Understand how the business strategy relates to product strategy and execution
• Develop and market a product vision and strategy
• Possess a strong business background and technical savvy in order to interpret requirements from business stakeholders to technical teams
• Empowered to make critical decisions regarding functionality and priority in sprint cycles. Signs off to accept each user story during sprint.
• Responsible for collecting a wide range of important data points required to conceive and deliver products
• Establish and maintain relationships with key business and technology stakeholders
• Work with key stakeholders to make frequent and dynamic prioritization decisions in an agile environment
• Continue to monitor and refine the product by regularly collaborating with product delivery teams
• Create and manage product roadmaps based on business outcomes
• Communicate the product vision and how it will be realized over time. Continuously verify that the product fulfills that vision as measured by business value and outcomes
• Maintain a full product lifecycle perspective and manage product backlogs to balance shortterm achievements with longterm goals
• Plan iterations for development teams to deliver in a regular agile sprint cycle
• Foster an environment of constant learning and continuous improvement
• Adapt to an agile framework that is best suited for the business and delivery teams
• Constantly evaluate development team throughput and velocity
• Mentor other product owners and provide direction on more complex features. May include management of other product owners and business analysts
• Comprehensive knowledge of the Guggenheim business functions and how applications will be used by Guggenheim customers (not required for new hiresacquired knowledge)
• Must have experience in one or more of the following: system architecture, service architecture, technology systems and platforms, cloud technologies, C#, SharePoint, SQL server, writing queries, JavaScript, content management systems, data models or database engineering, scripting, Windows, HTML, etc.
• Solid knowledge of the financial services industry
• Review the current and/or new business problem and identify systems requirements
• Document system requirements and business processes; review documentation for others
• Prepare communications and/or presentations on system enhancements and/or fixes for business users
• Works effectively as part of a team

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in information technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field
• 10+ years of experience in data management, data governance, or product ownership within asset management, private markets, or financial services
• Minimum 4 years experience in a technology role (i.e., Business Analyst, Developer, Product Owner) in an IT environment
• Minimum 2 years of experience of business writing which includes business requirements documents, system requirements documents, use case specifications, and functional specifications
• Experience in supporting or coordinating multiple projects or programs
• Excellent analytical, problemsolving, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Willingness to take on tasks as needed to support the team and business

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to write SQL queries or create sophisticated Excel macros & pivot tables
• Proficiency in tools like SQL, Excel, and workflow documentation software
• Proven interpersonal, data analysis, diplomatic, management and prioritization skills

Salary Range

Annual base salary between $180,000.00 $205,000.00. The base salary range represents the low and high end of the anticipated base salary range for this position. The range listed reflects base salary only, and the total compensation package may include other components such as incentive compensation.

Seniority Level

Director

Employment Type

Fulltime

Job Function

Product Management and Marketing

Location

Chicago or New York City office

Notes

We are not seeking agency assistance with this role.

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