Product Owner II

WSECU is looking for a forward-thinking product leader to drive innovation in our digital banking and small business services. You'll play a key role in shaping the tools, platforms, and experiences that empower small business members to manage their finances with confidence and ease. From payments and lending to cash management and digital onboarding, your work will help local businesses thrive through intuitive, high-impact digital solutions.

As the Product Owner, you'll lead cross-functional teams to deliver on our vision-aligning strategy, technology, and member experience to maximize value. You'll collaborate with stakeholders across the credit union to define priorities, refine the product roadmap, and ensure every feature delivers measurable results. If you're passionate about small business success and have a strong background in digital banking innovation, we'd love to have you join our team.

Your day may include:

• Developing and maintaining product roadmaps.
• Managing and maintaining the product backlog in alignment with organizational goals.
• Leading cross-functional teams in efforts to design solutions that achieve business goals.
• Aligning the roadmap with business priorities and product vision.
• Working closely with lines of business and key stakeholders to create, prioritize, and iteratively deliver business value.
• Facilitating user story development, including documentation of business requirements, creation of user stories, and acceptance criteria for all approved stories, features, and epics.
• Conducting interviews with stakeholders to understand business needs from all perspectives.
• Ensuring product features are delivered with quality and meet members' needs.
• Partnering with Member Experience to ensure the product journey is clearly documented with current and new expectations, including user interfaces when available.
• Maintaining team agreements (Definition of Ready and Definition of Done)
• Staying up to date on relevant industry and agile trends, best practices, and exchanging ideas regularly.
• Modeling projections for goals and methods to track advancement toward meeting those goals.
• Recommending approaches based on research, best practices, needs analysis, and professional expertise (digital efforts and departmental goals).

What you bring to the team:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Systems/Technology, or a closely related field. Additional related experience may substitute year-for-year for education.
• Three (3) years of experience as a Business Analyst, Product Owner, or in a similar agile role. Advanced education beyond a bachelor's degree may substitute year-for-year for required experience.
• Two (2) years of experience with agile methods, frameworks, and tools
• Three (3) years of experience in financial institutions.
• Three (3) years of experience capturing business, functional, and non-functional requirements and analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to overcome barriers independently and formulate solutions with minimal supervision.
• Ability to present solutions to leaders across the WSECU organization.
• Expert-level facilitation and communication skills.
• Ability to lead team and stakeholder discussions through complex and challenging conversations.
• Ability to respond quickly, flexibly, and positively to changing requirements within the Product Owner discipline.
• Commitment to continuous learning, development, and adaptation to evolving discipline needs.
• Ability to coach through mentorship and discipline leadership.
• Ability to communicate technical and industry-specific concepts effectively and elicit feedback from others.
• Excellent conceptual, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Analyzing product performance measurements and making recommendations to iteratively address key stakeholder needs.
• Proficiency in technical writing, with experience delivering written and oral presentations to audiences at all levels.

Bonus points if you have:

• Product Owner Certified
• Scrum Alliance Certified
• Project Management Institute - Agile Certified Practitioner

Competitive pay: $83,317.97 - $124,976.95 annually, dependent on relevant qualifications, plus an annual discretionary incentive plan and benefits package

• The target starting pay for this position is $83,317.97 - $104,147.46 annually, typically within the first half of the range. Actual offers will be based on individual qualifications relevant to the role and will not take an applicant's pay history into account.
• The range above allows our employees room for growth through annual merit and other pay increase during their tenure in the position.

Where we're located: 330 Union Ave, Olympia WA. Employee must reside and perform all work in the state of Washington. This is a work from home/hybrid position with the exception of occasional on-site training, meetings and specific organization events.

When you'd work: Monday-Friday, 8:30 am-5:30 pm, full time minimum 40 hours per week, with scheduling flexibility to meet service needs for this exempt position.

Working from home/hybrid requirements:

• Reliable, high-speed home internet connection
• Private, confidential workspace, away from distractions and other people
• Suitable desk/surface and desk chair

Perks: Here are a few benefits and perks we offer:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance with Premiums paid by WSECU
• Full-Time Regular employees accrue general leave and sick leave, on a monthly basis
• Part-Time employees accrue general leave, on a monthly basis
• 11 Paid Holidays
• Employer paid Long Term Disability & Long Term Care plan for Full-Time employees
• Employer paid Long Term Care plan for Part-Time employees
• 401(K) with 8.5% Contribution by WSECU to begin 1st quarter after 1 year of service
• Paid Volunteer Leave
• Tuition Assistance
• Employee Assistance Program & Employee Discounts
• And, you get to work with some awesome people!

WSECU is honored to be recognized as the number one credit union in the state on Forbes magazine's list of best credit unions in Washington. Members are at the heart of everything we do. Their feedback helps us determine our path and knowing that same member feedback led to this recognition is incredibly rewarding.

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