Senior Principal Product Owner

Summary

Join Blend360 as a Senior Principal Product Owner to contribute to the digital transformation of a Fortune 100 financial services client. This 6-month consulting role (with potential for conversion to full-time employment) focuses on identifying, implementing, and optimizing AdTech properties. You will collaborate with various teams and partners to define product strategy, prioritize initiatives, and ensure timely delivery. The role demands a strong understanding of the digital advertising landscape and AdTech ecosystems. Remote work within the U.S. (with a preference for the Chicago area) is offered, along with a comprehensive benefits package for full-time consultants.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Business Administration & Management, Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field
• 8+ years of experience in Product Management or Engineering role
• Prior experience in Financial Services or Tech Industry
• In lieu of a degree, 10+ years of experience in Product Management or Engineering role within the Financial Services or Tech Industry

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain product vision by collaborating with stakeholders on key product considerations and align with product vision, features, and roadmap to support business unit goals
• Leverage customer insights, feedback, financials, compliance, and risk data to define product features and roadmap in partnership with other SMEs and potentially grow existing and/or build new product portfolios through new value-added and enhanced customer experiences
• Lead design, development, and implementation of new product strategies. Work cross-functionally to manage shared goals and priorities
• Establish Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for the product family and ensure alignment with senior leadership. Define and create prototypes (e.g., MVPs, POC, etc.) based on customer feedback to test, learn, and validate ideas before committing to larger scale development
• Synchronize and align with Product Family Product Owners on prioritization and delivery to maximize Product Family Value. Define product family MVPs, prioritizing and accepting priorities in partnership with POs and architects
• At the family level: Responsible for definition, guidance, and execution of product-related activities for a particular portfolio through the entirety of product lifecycle, from strategy and roadmap definition to development and market readiness. Set business objectives for the product development process and oversee execution, internal or external, as necessary
• Validate user story acceptance criteria. Ensure appropriate testing frameworks for product features (e.g., market testing, functional performance, etc.). Work with Data Stewards in their respective LOBs to ensure the required data quality controls are identified and implemented. Inspect and evaluate product progress through each iteration
• Identify sources; monitor, analyze, test, and interpret key product performance metrics including financials, network volumes, key statistics, internal/external customer feedback trends, industry trends, research findings, and competitive innovations. Develop and communicate findings; make strategic and tactical recommendations for performance improvements throughout the product lifecycle
• Provide mentoring, fill in business and/or technical knowledge gaps, etc. Negotiate and influence others across shared services and product teams across product families
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and execute go-to-market strategies
• Partner with business technology to outline needed technical features that are required to continuously optimize system components and underline infrastructure maintenance
• Build a culture of accountability and ownership by empowering the product team to make decisions as close to the work as possible. Serve as business lead on cross-functional teams and assist in managing dependencies with other teams’ functions while identifying, building, and managing strategic partnership across different product teams. This includes collaborating to develop or support efforts of go-to-market strategies. Provide vision and direction to a team
• Coach team to be able to identify, manage, and escalate risk, and effectively manage risk

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in the use and implementation of AdTech solutions, ideally with clean room capabilities for the purposes of audience enablement and digital media measurement
• 8+ years professional experience in providing AdTech/MarTech support for advertising, digital marketing, media planning etc
• Knowledge of digital media campaign activation and AdTech ecosystem. As an example, experience with DSPs (e.g., DV360, The Trade Desk), DMPs (e.g., Adobe Audience Manager), Social Network Ad Managers (Meta, Snap, TikTok), Clean room solutions (e.g., Amazon Marketing Cloud, Habu), and Data Onboarding (e.g., LiveRamp)
• Has interacted with media and marketing partners and understands their needs that can be translated into solutions
• Can gather requirements and work with Engineering teams (internal and external) to deliver solutions

Benefits

• Health
• Vision
• Dental
• 401K plan
• Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programs
• PTO
• Commuter benefits
• Spending accounts
• Disability coverage