Product Owner

Job Description

Product Owner (Middle Office / Cash Management)

Assignment Details

• Duration: 12-month contract, with potential to extend or convert
• Location: Hybrid, 4 days onsite and 1 remote day (candidate picks the remote day). Primary: Austin, TX. Secondary: Westlake, TX.
• Schedule note: Supports biweekly recurring production evening release activities

Position Overview
The Product Owner works with key business and IT stakeholders to define scope and interpret requirements and priorities for the modernization and transformation of the middle office systems. The role mixes business and technical knowledge, acting as liaison between business and IT to keep them aligned. The ideal candidate understands the banking industry, has Agile experience, and takes an integrated view of their products. What You’ll Do

• Serve as the primary contact between business and IT partners so business requirements are well documented and technical solutions meet business strategy
• Run requirement-elicitation meetings with users, developers, architects, system integrators, and vendors, understanding stakeholder needs, pain points, and business impact
• Work with cross-functional teams to create process models, user epics and stories, and use cases
• Understand business and technical dependencies across business areas and systems, upstream and downstream of middle office functionality
• Plan and scope several inter-related initiatives so senior stakeholders can decide which to pursue and how
• Elicit, document, and manage business requirements
• Facilitate issue resolution and retrospectives between stakeholders
• Build expert As-Is knowledge of platform systems and help define To-Be solutions and flows
• Handle complex, high-profile projects across multiple domains, systems, and stakeholders
• Adapt to changing priorities and manage multiple tasks
• Support business implementation of new and enhanced system features
• Support biweekly recurring production evening release activities

What You Have

• 3-5+ years of experience managing requirements for multiple large, complex, cross-functional projects, with emphasis on systems, technology, and business process redesign (technical environment knowledge preferred)
• Proven ability to write business requirements, including user stories, use cases, and workflow documentation
• Strategic mindset to help drive product management decisions, governance, and long-term vision
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with quantitative and qualitative analysis
• Confidence presenting strategic and tactical vision to teams and management
• Ability to align all stakeholders, including senior leaders, around a shared vision
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, organizational, and negotiation skills
• Product and project management skills, including balancing resources, evaluating risk, and articulating trade-offs
• Strong client orientation, applying client needs to product enhancements, online user experience, and communication content
• Ability to analyze and communicate technology recommendations to business stakeholders
• High attention to detail and the ability to see work through from concept to implementation
• Competence in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent business experience

Preferred

• 5 years of experience with Agile software development methodology
• Securities industry or operations background, with a focus on cash management solutions
• Working knowledge of JIRA or similar Scrum tools

Benefits

Procom provides Basic Life/AD&D insurance, Short- and Long-Term Disability, and EAP at no cost to eligible employees after a waiting period. Medical and dental coverage (employee premium contributions), a non-matching 401(k) plan, and additional voluntary coverage are also available. This role includes legislatively required paid leave; no bonus, commission, or equity compensation applies.