ATP Product Owner

Your opportunity

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).

The Core Brokerage Asset Transfer Platform team is responsible for facilitating the modernization and maintaining the viability of Schwab systems that support cash management solutions, transfer/movement of client assets, and mitigating risks associated with the processing of their transactions for retail and institutional business.

Within this team, the Product Owner will report to the Senior Manager overseeing Asset Transfers and Cash Management Solutions core system functionality. The individual in this role will collaborate with key business & IT stakeholders and partners in defining scope, interpreting requirements and priorities for the modernization and transformation of these systems. The role will require the PO to have a mix of business and technical knowledge, acting as a liaison/partner to maintain business and IT alignment.  The ideal PO should possess a good understanding of the financial services and securities industry, software development life-cycle and a holistic view for their products.

What you have

Required

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent business experience
• Competence in Microsoft Office tools including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Proven ability to write business requirements, including user stories, use case development and workflow documentation
• 3-to- 5 years’ experience managing requirements for multiple large, complex and cross functional projects. Emphasis on systems, technologies, business process redesign, and knowledge of technical environments

Preferred

• Financial Services & Securities Industry/Operational background preferred; a focus on cash management solutions and money movement processes (i.e. ACH, Check Deposit, Wires, Journals, etc.)Prior working knowledge of JIRA or any related Scrum tools preferred
• Strategic mindset to help drive product management decisions, governance, and long-term vision
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills - ability to quickly analyze data to identify key insights and apply them to the business; quantitative and qualitative analysis  
• Confidence in presenting both strategic and tactical vision to the team and management for both big-picture planning and day-to-day management of project goal
• Ability to align and unify ALLstakeholders to a shared vision and a common focus; including senior leaders
• High attention to detail and the ability to see things through from concept to implementation
• 3-to-5 years’ experience in software development methodology (Agile Framework), preferred

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.