Product Owner at Aperia

Summary

Join Aperia Solutions, a leader in SaaS solutions for the Payments and Compliance industries. Aperia is a Texas-based fintech and managed consultancy firm that creates custom SaaS applications and other software-based solutions for the payments, banking, and processing industry. Founded in 1999, Aperia offers business intelligence, risk management, compliance, and customer intelligence platforms. With offices in Dallas, Washington DC, and Vietnam, Aperia is a fast-paced, global organization that strives to improve efficiency in compliance, risk, and customer service operations. Aperia’s clients include banks, processors, payment facilitators, merchant service providers, independent sales organizations, and government entities. A career at Aperia promises a great challenge, culture, and opportunities to forge your own path.

Job Description

This is a strategic role that requires a deep understanding of payments technologies, market trends, and customer needs, coupled with the ability to align product strategies with the company's overall growth objectives. You will be a driving force behind our success, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence that will propel our company into a new era of unprecedented growth and market influence.

As a product owner, you will be responsible for overseeing the development and execution of products in our Payments portfolio by working to translate product strategy into executable work for software development teams. You will be a pivotal member of our Agile software delivery teams, responsible for defining and prioritizing the product roadmap for our SaaS solutions within the Payments and Compliance industries. Operating within the SAFe Agile framework, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful delivery of high-quality software solutions that meet market demands and customer needs. We seek a product owner who can serve as a hands-on contributor to the future of Aperia.

Core Responsibilities

Your week-to-week work will break out across the following activities:

• Conduct market research, analyze industry trends, and stay informed about competitive landscape to make informed product decisions.
• Working closely with product and design colleagues to synthesize outcomes from UX research, design sprints, user testing, and development prototypes, to create user stories, design documents, and actionable development tasks.
• Liaising with software and quality engineers to refine and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring user stories are well-defined, estimated, and ready for development.
• Work closely with development teams, including Scrum Masters, developers, and testers, providing clear and concise guidance on priorities and requirements.
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders to understand unmet needs, validate pain points, and incorporate insights into the product development lifecycle that validate the product hypotheses.
• Collaborating with customer service to develop documentation of new capabilities, and with go-to-market teams to create content for sales enablement and marketing communications.
• Define and communicate the product vision, strategy, and roadmap with the wider Aperia business, providing updates on progress, and demonstrating new capabilities that align with business goals, market trends, and customer requirements.
• Participate in release planning, sprint planning, and review sessions, ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer expectations.

Technical Skills and Qualifications

In assessing your suitability for the role, we’ll be looking for evidence of:

• 2-3 years experience as a product owner or product manager
• Genuine interest and curiosity in the payments industry
• Knowledge and experience leading development projects for applications that cloud and non-cloud technologies
• Proficiency in Agile tools (e.g., Jira) and familiarity with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe).
• Ability to extract insights from customer research and user testing to develop hypotheses about how to deliver value to customers.
• Experience inventorying jobs to be done, breaking down extensive features into incremental, executable pieces, and writing user stories.
• The ability to illustrate concepts to convey new ideas or work out complex UX workflows.
• Comprehension of technical details, and ability to explain them in an easy-to-understand manner both verbally and in writing.
• Acumen and drive for developing application experiences that are both functional and aesthetically appealing.
• Organizational skills, including effective time and project management skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Experience with SAFe development processes considered a plus.

When applying for this position, in addition to a resume, we’d greatly appreciate a cover letter addressing why you are interested. Be creative and tell us your story. We also welcome any examples of work products or related experience in product management.

Eligibility Requirements

• Must be willing to submit to a background investigation and drug test as part of the selection process.

Job Type

• Full-time

Schedule

• Monday to Friday

Work Location 

• Dallas, TX

Benefits

• Health insurance 
• Health savings account
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Disability insurance
• Childcare assistance
• Education reimbursement
• Fitness membership
• Volunteer time off

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. An employee may also perform other reasonable related business duties as assigned by their immediate supervisor or management. Principals only.

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