Senior Principal Product Owner (Web Analytics Data Collection) at Discover Financial Services

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Job Description:

Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position.  Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

The Product Professional Leads the development of the Product Vision at the Family level that drives business value and an improved customer experience while ensuring alignment / manages dependencies across Team within a Product Family and with cross functional partners. The Senior Principal as an individual contributor is a servant leader and not the manager of team members. Has depth of knowledge so that they can see patterns without having to dissect it step by step. Often recognized outside their company for their contributions to their profession. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management. Maintain deep understanding of mobile and browser analytics data collection and federation eco system, integration with surrounding marketing technology products and downstream data consumption platforms. Focus on efficiently utilizing modern technologies for web analytics data collection enablement that deliver trustful, relevant and readily available insights. Facilitate web analytics and report building training programs across the product user’s community within the organization. Champion the use of automation and advanced analytics tools to enhance data collection compliance, quality monitoring, availability and efficiency across digital platforms.

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains Family Product vision by collaborating with stakeholders on key product considerations and aligns with product vision, features and roadmap to support business unit goals. Leverages 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 portfolio(s) through new value added and enhanced customer experiences. Leads design, development, and implementation of new product strategy. Works 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 (e.g., SPO, Dir, etc.). Defines and Creates prototypes (e.g., MVPs, POC, etc.) based on customer feedback to test, learn, and validate ideas before committing to larger scale development. Synchronizes and aligns with Product Family POs on prioritization and delivery to maximize Product Family Value. Defines 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. Sets business objectives for the product development process and oversees execution, internal or external, as necessary. Works with minimal supervision.
• Validate user story acceptance criteria. Ensures appropriate testing frameworks for product features (e.g., market testing, functional performance, etc.) Works with Data stewards in their respective LOBs to ensure required Data quality controls are identified and implemented. Inspect and evaluate product progress through each iteration.
• Identify sources, monitor, analyze (Business Analysis), test, and interpret key product performance metrics including financials, network volumes, other key statistics, and internal/external customer feedback trends, industry trends, research findings, and competitive innovations then develop and communicate findings, and make strategic and tactical recommendations for performance improvements throughout the product lifecycle.
• Provides mentoring, fills in the business and/or technical knowledge gaps, etc. Negotiates and influences others across shared services and product teams across product families.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to develop and execute go-to-market strategies.
• Partners with business technology to outline needed technical features that are required to continuously optimize system components and underline infrastructure maintenance.
• Builds 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 team's 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.
• Coaches team to be able to identify, manage, and escalate risk, and effectively manage risk within the teams you oversee.

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Business Administration & Management, Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, or related.
• 8+ years of experience in Product Management or Engineering experience in Financial Services or Tech Industry, or related.
• In lieu of a Bachelors Degree, 10+ years of experience in Product Management or Engineering experience in Financial Services or Tech Industry, or related.

Preferred Qualifications

If we had our say, we’d also look for:

• 6+ years of experience in managing data collection products including Adobe Analytics, Adobe Experience Platform Data Collection (Adobe Launch), Web SDK event forwarding, Event Diven Data Layer, Data Feeds.
• 6+ years information management and data analysis experience, compiling analytics solution design reference documentation, managing and reduction of technology debt.
• 4+ years of experience with Google Analytics 360 (UA/GA4) platform data collection and audience management, integration with Google Marketing Platform products.
• 4+ years of experience in data collection in Tag Management or Marketing Technology in a data stewardship, analytics, marketing or technical role, or related field
• 3+ years hands-on experience designing and building data dictionary and data catalog systems
• 4+ years of project management with Agile methodology
• Proficiency in automated monitoring and quality control for web analytics.
• Professional accreditation certification – Certified Scrum Product Owner, Adobe marketing cloud products, Google marketing platform products, AWS, Snowflake 

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Application Deadline:

The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Sep-25-2024. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.

Compensation:

The base pay for this position generally ranges between $121,000.00 to $177,800.00. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position.

Benefits:

We also offer a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. These benefits include:

• Paid Parental Leave

• Paid Time Off

• 401(k) Plan

• Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account

• STD, Life, LTD and AD&D

• Recognition Program

• Education Assistance

• Commuter Benefits

• Family Support Programs

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Learn more at mydiscoverbenefits.com.

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