Product Owner Senior Manager

At Freddie Mac our mission of Making Home Possible is what motivates us and its at the core of everything we do. Since our charter in 1970 we have made home possible for more than 90 million families across the country. Join an organization where your work contributes to a greater purpose.

Position Overview:

Do you have passion for understanding customer needs and leveraging technology to deliver value Do you thrive in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment Does driving business transformation through modern delivery align with your career aspirations If so a role on the Multifamily Technology team working as a Product Owner could be a fit for you!

Our Impact:

• The Multifamily Technology Teams mission is to be the preeminent Multifamily housing finance digital marketplace and establish an industry-leading platform in commercial real estate. Our Vision is to Modernize and sustain our technology to enable Freddie Mac Multifamily business to efficiently achieve our mission and deliver corporate and division objectives.

Your Impact:

• The Product Owner Role will be part of the Multifamily Technology team helping to transform the way in which Freddie Mac does business. The role will help define launch and drive the product vision and strategy for the Multifamily function for years to come

• Your Work Enables Decision-Making and Falls into Three Primary Categories:

  • Understanding the needs of customers internal and external and their operational processes to identify design and define solutions that can be effectively implemented to deliver value.

  • Understanding the business strategy and apply it to the prioritization of the product backlog.

  • Representing the Multifamily Technology team as the principal contact as a subject matter expert and technology vendors

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Business Computer Science Engineering or related field; Masters degree preferred

• Minimum eight years of experience inproduct management or product ownership

• Minimum three years of experience in a leadership or management role

• Proficient withAtlassiansoftware suite (Jira Confluence) or similaragilemanagement tools

• Demonstrated experience managingproduct backlogsandroadmapswithin agile frameworks (Scrum Kanban etc.)

• Able to influence senior stakeholders and create consensus during moments of uncertainty

• Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments with the flexibility to manage multiple concurrent priorities

• Proven track record delivering large complexchange managementprojects involving multiple teams particularly those related to businessapplications and technology

• Strong analytical strategic and problem-solving skills

• Advanced leadership skills with ability to lead motivate and energize cross-functional teams

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including ability to present to executive leadership and expertly facilitate strategic meetings

• Experience in the mortgage real estate or broader financial services industry is preferred

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Work with the business stakeholders to set ambitious and clear product vision and communicate the story effectively to key stakeholders and the rest of the team

• The main business POC for day-to-day execution

• Take a business process first approach understanding current and future state business processes prior to solutioning

• Break business processes into capabilities and functional components (decomposition) and leverage the model for process reengineering and requirements gathering

• Ensure alignment of product features and stories i.e. review give feedback and prioritize user stories in line with own vision

• Continuously improve backlog with the team ensuring all items are clearly described estimated and prioritized

• Ensure customer-driven design considering user pain points & usability test results using market & industry knowledge as well as continual research to deliver a well-positioned product

• Exercise strong decision-making mandate from executive group to own product end-to-end

• Facilitate the collaboration of cross-organizational teams to establish develop implement and rollout new and enhanced capabilities. Includes working with UX Change Management Development Architecture Data and other horizontal cross functional organizations.

• Communicate value and status to various stakeholders and levels of management.

• Participates or leads activities that support system development & deployment (e.g. process redesign Day 1 setup risk & controls documentation user acceptance testing).

• Proficient in documenting risk & controls (e.g. policies procedures process flows risk and control matrices).

Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.

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Time-type:Full time

FLSA Status:Exempt

Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.

This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $155000 - $233000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position experience skill set internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.

Required Experience:

Senior Manager