Product Owner - Financial System

About the Role

We are seeking a dedicated Product Owner for the Financial System within our Transformation Office at our Nashville location. This full-time, hybrid position involves periodic travel and reports to the SMP Transformation Office Product Manager. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in advancing a multi-year initiative aimed at redesigning core technology and business processes to maintain industry leadership and support songwriters effectively.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee the team's backlog, ensuring its transparency and clear communication to all stakeholders.
• Guide the collaborative development of detailed user stories by working with Business Analysts, testers, and developers, ensuring clarity and acceptance criteria are well-defined.
• Prioritize backlog items aligned with business objectives and user requirements, reflecting the strategic vision set by the Product Manager.
• Maintain backlog health by conducting grooming sessions to prepare stories adequately for upcoming development sprints.
• Serve as the main point of contact for the development team throughout sprints, providing clarifications as necessary.
• Lead Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and sprint reviews, fostering effective team collaboration.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, stakeholders, and users to gather comprehensive requirements and understand the rationale behind each story.
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing sessions with business users to verify feature functionality and business value delivery.
• Review and accept completed user stories upon meeting predefined acceptance criteria.
• Support business readiness by partnering with Change Management and Training teams, offering subject matter expertise to aid training content development.

Candidate Profile

• Possess 2 to 4+ years of Product Owner experience in Agile/Scrum settings.
• Proficient in writing clear user stories, defining acceptance criteria, and managing product backlogs.
• Excellent communication skills to bridge technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail.
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to build strong working relationships across teams.
• Comfortable discussing technical concepts and translating business needs into technical requirements.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or similar certification is highly desirable.
• At least one year of experience in either SQL or financial systems.

Success Metrics

• Maintaining a well-groomed, prioritized backlog with sufficient high-quality user stories.
• Contributing to stable and predictable team velocity through clarity and preparation.
• Delivering features that consistently meet acceptance criteria and business intent.
• Receiving positive feedback from development teams and Product Managers regarding support and execution capabilities.