Product Owner

The Product Owner will work directly with leaders and stakeholders of the Merchants Mortgage Origination and Production teams to refine and implement technology solutions supporting strategic roadmap objectives. They will be focused on leading implementations and supporting what has been implemented using a comprehensive agile software delivery framework with their team and business partners.

• Plan and lead implementation of complex projects from initiation through go live.
• Partner with the Product Manager to refine initial analysis of strategic roadmap objectives into detailed, prioritized, and executable backlog of stories for the team to build, test and deliver.
• Manage and prioritize a holistic product team backlog including:
  • Strategic Business Goals
  • Maturing technology capabilities 
  • Support, Scale and Continuous Improvement of existing solutions 
  • Regulatory and Ad-hoc business needs 
• Help project delivery leadership to establish and coach business partners on software delivery and application management frameworks and best practices.
• Establish a strong partnership with Product Manager and business unit leaders and understand strategy, product, process, and goals to ensure technology solutions align to business goals.
• Provide input on strategic technology roadmap by maintaining a backlog of future value for your business partners.
• Guide and assist internal and vendor development teams.      

Expected Experience, Skills and Education: 

• 5-8 years of experience leading complex, integrated software implementations across multiple business units/teams in Product Owner, Business Analyst, or Project Manager capacity. 
• Experience with Analytics Solutions.
• Strong background of leading teams towards common goals without direct management.      
• Strong communication and presentation skills required. 
• Experience operating and executing within delivery frameworks (Scrum, Waterfall, etc.).
• Single Family Mortgage industry experience preferred.
• Loan Origination System administration experience preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

ABOUT MERCHANTS 

Ranked as a top performing U.S. public bank by S&P Global Market Intelligence, Merchants Bancorp is a diversified bank holding company headquartered in Carmel, Indiana operating multiple segments, including Multi-family Mortgage Banking that offers multi-family housing and healthcare facility financing and servicing; Mortgage Warehousing that offers mortgage warehouse financing; and Banking that offers retail and correspondent residential mortgage banking, agricultural lending, and traditional community banking. Merchants Bancorp, with $18.8 billion in assets and $11.9 billion in deposits as of December 31, 2024, conducts its business primarily through its direct and indirect subsidiaries, Merchants Bank of Indiana, Merchants Capital Corp., Merchants Capital Investments, LLC, Merchants Capital Servicing, LLC, Merchants Asset Management, LLC, and Merchants Mortgage, a division of Merchants Bank of Indiana.
 

We are very proud of being recognized both nationally as one of the top-performing public banks in the US. By S&P Global Market Intelligence and locally as a Best Place to work in Indiana for seven consecutive years. Learn more about this read more here.