Director - Product Owner​/Agile Product Lead

Position: Director - Product Owner/ Agile Product Lead
As one of the world's top three credit ratings agencies, Fitch Ratings plays a critical role in global capital markets by providing supplementary credit analysis, ratings, research, and commentary to financial market participants. For over 100 years, Fitch Ratings has been creating value for global markets through its rigorous analysis and deep expertise, which have resulted in a variety of market leading tools, methodologies, indices, research, and analytical products.

Fitch Ratings is part of Fitch Group, a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries, which also includes Fitch Solutions. With dual headquarters in London and New York, Fitch Group is owned by Hearst.

At Fitch Ratings, credit analysts play a pivotal role in moving markets, as quality credit analysis is the lifeblood of our organization. With a legacy of over a century, our unique approach to credit ratings offers unmatched opportunities for professional growth. Embracing a "challenger mindset," you'll join a team dedicated to innovating service to our clients. Our people-driven analysis thrives on collaboration across all levels and locations, surpassing traditional financial modeling.

Lastly, as part of our global community, you'll find inspiration, challenge, and support, with ample opportunities for visibility and influence in the global financial marketplace.

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Fitch Ratings is currently seeking a Director - Product Owner / Agile Product Lead based out of our New York office.

About the Team:

Ratings Workflow Solutions (RWS), part of the Ratings COO organization, is a cross-functional, agile team responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing applications and workflows used by our Ratings staff. Our goal is to streamline processes, mitigate risks, and advance standardization and automation across Fitch's ratings platforms and workflows. The team partners closely with analytical, business, and technology staff to ensure our systems support the needs of the Ratings organization and enable our staff to work effectively.

How You'll Make an Impact:

We're looking for an experienced and dynamic Product Owner to lead an agile delivery team supporting Fitch's business, analytical and operational staff and their internal workflows. In this role, you'll lead the squad, work closely with different groups to understand their needs, solve problems, and ensure we're building solutions that advance our business objectives. You'll work alongside analytical groups and technology teams to align priorities and deliver key outcomes.

Strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills are important, and you should enjoy working with colleagues who have different levels of experience with Agile. A collaborative, customer-first mindset is essential.

* Define overall strategy and direction of the applications covered based on understanding of organizational goals and analytical groups' needs.

* Own the backlog, feature prioritization, roadmap, and the MVP in support of business objectives.

* Communicate and align with stakeholders to prioritize features and ensure a shared vision of sprint goals and backlogs.

* Lead the Agile squad to define and align sprint goals, ensuring "ready" user stories and supporting the squad to deliver on sprint commitments. Supports squad in identifying dependencies and other execution risks.

* Work closely with the squad to provide timely feedback and answers to their questions; ultimately accept or reject the product increments of the sprint.

* Oversee the overall squad's quarterly delivery, ensuring that the squad meets their goals and deliver business value.

* Identify opportunities for process improvements and drive initiatives to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the Ratings business.

* Enhance and automate processes to improve data quality, standardize workflows, and integrate key systems.

* Analyze and break down complex workflows and system processes for both current (As-Is) and future (To-Be) states in support of automation and standardization.

* Oversee and guide user training, rollout, and change management processes.

You May be a Good Fit if:

* Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of product ownership experience

* Agile practitioner capabilities & experience working with or in Agile teams.

* Proven track record of delivering workflow and data-driven solutions with a customer-first mindset.

* See the business as a customer and translate requirements into technical solutions.

* Ability to create and maintain a backlog and roadmap, and to prioritize that backlog based on business value and technical feasibility.

* Track record of delivering results in a high-demand, matrixed organization.

* Strong interpersonal and organizational skills, demonstrating an ability to work well with teams and stakeholders.

* Proficiency in Jira, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word

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