Principal Product Owner

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Job Description:

PRINCIPAL PRODUCT OWNER

The Role

We re looking for a collaborative, team-focused, knowledgeable Product Owner with phenomenal interpersonal skills with experience in delivery. Ensuring the backlog is prioritized, engaging actively with the teams, guiding towards solutions, measuring impacts, and broadcasting results to the broader organization. As a Product Owner for this team, you will ensure alignment on the “what” and “when” work is to be performed through ongoing planning and management of a roadmap. You partner and communicate with stakeholders, while simultaneously working to connect the teams to users and the broader business. This role will also be responsible for assisting with broader donor solutions area needs for tasks such as: prioritizing across team backlogs, strategic thinking and success metric analysis. You ensure releases are of high quality and implemented seamlessly by ensuring business readiness. You are committed to developing others and yourself to ensure the latest thinking and knowledge is integrated into the culture of the squad.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• 6-10+ years product ownership or program management experience

• A passion for innovation and big picture thinking, while also being able to comprehend and communicate details of feasibility and delivery

• A background in agile methodologies at scale

• Experience with value-based priority method

• Ability to establish what the project will create, for whom, and why

• Leads with the problem rather than solution to identify key features

• Gathers input about features to be produced, understand the relative value of those features

• Ability to translate cross functional business goals, epics and user stories for an Agile team

• Creates Product Backlog prioritized based on value, size, risk, and other relevant considerations

• Provides the team with as much context and detail as required to deliver the features committed to the iteration

• Encourages the team to take ownership for their commitments without sacrificing quality or sustainable pace

• Supports the team and iteration commitments, and provides transparency when plans need to change

• Inspects features produced at the end of each iteration; identifies ways to improve business value

• Reprioritizes backlog from iteration to iteration, in response to insights about opportunities, constraints, risks

• Decides when to release software to the market / customer(s)

• Maintains clear release criteria (dates and / or functionality) and Release Burndown Chart; and shares this with the team and stakeholders

• Engages with the team throughout the iteration; provide input and feedback

• Comfort with emerging technologies, assessing new opportunities and engaging with creative thinkers passionate for how technology is best used to make giving easier and impactful

• Agile project team experience

• Strong communication skills with experience presenting to senior audiences and stakeholder management

• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills

• Comfort with context switching across donors, advisor, prospect, reps and non-profits

• Ability to roll up your sleeves and tackle big challenges!

• Engagement with broader Fidelity Charitable staff to identify and deliver platform enhancements that drive user experience and donor results

• Work with business and agile team(s) to define a strategy to support a test and learn environment that values data driven decision making and continual improvement

• Work closely with agile team to define initiative roadmap, prioritize backlog(s), and define a Minimum Viable Product

• Serve as Product Owner throughout agile process, ensuring user stories and business acceptance criteria meet business requirements and user expectations

The Team

The Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund (“the charity”) is a public charity that sponsors the largest national donor-advised fund program. Since 1991, the charity has introduced tens of thousands of donors to the benefits — an increased charitable impact — of using a donor-advised fund to meet their philanthropic goals. The charity is governed by an independent Board of Trustees, which has hired Fidelity Charitable, a business unit of Fidelity Investments, as the service provider of the charity. These services include Program Development, Investments, Service Delivery, Marketing, Finance, Tax, Technology, Compliance, Risk, and Fundraising.

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Company Overview

Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients money.

Join Us

At Fidelity, you ll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees Choice Award , we have been recognized by our employees as a top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024. And you don t need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity—we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you ve always imagined.

Fidelity s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of every other week in a Fidelity office.

At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry. Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation, detailed in this document , and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.

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Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.

Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to .

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