Job Description

Choose your next journey as a Manager, Product Owner with Millennium Trust Company and join a culture that empowers and where you can innovate. You will be celebrated, you will be challenged, and you can aspire to inspire. You are more than a colleague here; you are part of a COMMUNITY that goes ABOVE and BEYOND professionally and personally to make a difference. Don\xe2\x80\x99t meet every single requirement? Here at Millennium, we believe there is NO \xe2\x80\x9cPERFECT\xe2\x80\x9d candidate and want to encourage applying even if all the requirements listed aren\xe2\x80\x99t met. Our goal is to build an authentic workplace by valuing diversity in our candidates. We work to ensure that our team reflects the diversity of the businesses and clients we serve. We are always looking to expand our growing team with dynamic and enthusiastic individuals. If you enjoy a collaborative, fun environment that champions career development, Millennium Trust is the place for you! We look forward to receiving your application! Check out a video on our Company Culture! Millennium Trust Culture.

• Typical hours for this role are Monday to Friday from 8 am CST to 5 pm CST.

HOW YOU WILL SOAR: The Product Owner will lead the product vision and delivery of initiatives in Retirement Services by using Agile squads focused on the client experience. The squads will be empowered and accountable to drive specific business and technology outcomes such as improving the client experience, increasing business operational efficiency, launching new products, and retiring legacy systems while aligning tactical decisions with strategic architectural principles. The ideal incumbent will be strategic, innovative, and creative with a solid analytic foundation.

• Create compelling product visions
• Develop and execute product roadmaps with a focus on measurable outcomes
• Track and regularly shares progress with stakeholders and the team
• Author user stories and provides context for the product vision, strategy, and requirements
• Groom backlog and ensures that stories are ready for development
• Define KPIs while monitoring and reporting on business and client metrics for the product.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, various business lines, vendors and Technology to elicit, analyze and understand needs, constraints, risks and alignment with organizational strategy and priorities
• Work in partnership with the team and stakeholders to employ Agile methods, processes, tools and metrics to deliver value including ongoing product backlog refinement, product roadmaps and release planning
• Engage and collaborate with the team to create and manage Agile artifacts (e.g. Product Roadmap, Backlog, Release Plan, Lessons Learned) and information needed for prioritization and decision-making
• Regularly assesses features and costs to determine if and when to proceed with a product
• Responsible for accepting product deliverables
• Other duties as assigned

IF YOU HAVE SOME OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING, APPLY:

• Bachelor\'s Degree in Finance, Marketing, Business, Product Development or related field
• Scrum Product Owner or Certified Product Manager credentials preferred
• 5 - 7 years of applicable experience
• Experience with retirement, alternative strategies, or custody services
• Experience with various technology solutions including Salesforce and Service-oriented architecture
• Background in Financial Services and Fintech strongly preferred
• Must be a strategic, innovative, and creative thinker with a solid analytic foundation
• Demonstrated leadership skills to gain credibility, garner respect, and guide the creation of self-organizing teams
• Ability to be assertive with business priorities and address opposing viewpoints while adhering to Agile concepts and principles
• Working knowledge of Agile practices such as iterative development, incremental delivery, backlog management, burn down metrics, velocity and task definition
• Strong communication, facilitation and interpersonal skills to connect and engage with the team, facilitate discussions, advocate for the team, negotiate with the business, mentor team members, and resolve conflicts
• Solid analytical skills, creative problem-solving skills, and high attention to detail
• Ability to work with minimal direction, and flexibility to adapt to shifting priorities and schedules
• Ability to handle multiple issues simultaneously and manage stressful situations
• Strong knowledge of technical concepts and architectural principles to drive scalable solutions.

MILLENNIUM TRUST COMPANY is a rapidly growing, leading financial services company offering specialized retirement and institutional services and recently acquired PayFlex, a consumer directed benefits provider, to create a personalized, holistic approach to financial wellness. To that end, we provide a diversified multi-product business with a holistic focus on financial wellness. Millennium Trust has experienced year-to-year double digit growth and prides itself on its strong, progressive culture. We have been recognized for our remarkable growth on lists such as Crain\xe2\x80\x99s Fast 50 and Inc. 5000, and for our outstanding workplace culture and benefits with Built In\xe2\x80\x99s 2023 Best Places to Work and Gallagher\xe2\x80\x99s 2022 Best-In-Class Employer awards.