Technical Product Owner

About Origence

With 30 years at the forefront of fintech innovation, we specialize in SaaS lending solutions that lead the industry. Our core mission is customer-centric, focusing on empowering Credit Unions across the United States with the tools to offer accessible, competitive lending services.

We're deeply committed to enhancing the financial ecosystem for a broad network of credit unions, members and auto dealers.

We invest in our greatest assets, our employees, and foster a culture of innovation and ownership through freedom and responsibility.

We celebrate fiscal accountability, operational rigor and efficiency to create a sustainably healthy and robust business for the long term.

About you

You are a self-driven, conscientious, fiscally responsible, self-aware, passionate and compassionate software engineer. You are comfortable with ambiguity, eternally curious, and love problem solving.

You operate as an owner and work with a growth mindset. You are extremely productive on your own, and act as a multiplier collaborating with others.

You are tireless in questioning the status quo and pursue the best answers to the hardest problems to the benefit of the business.

Your focus is strong and capable of context switching and pivoting with the business. In the vacuum of leadership, you assume it.

The Technical Product Owner will drive and execute product deliverables through Agile product lifecycle, acting as a bridge between stakeholders, including clients (internal & external), Business Owners and the Product Development teams.

This role involves understanding the market needs, possessing the base technical acumen to understand our software and infrastructure, contributing to the definition of product vision, and translating it into a prioritized backlog for the team.

Manage and contribute to the product backlog, provide necessary operational support (reporting, product support, cross-team coordination, etc.).

What You'll Be Doing :

Product Management Execution

• Manage the product backlog by working with the product manager to understanding the business and technical requirements of the project, translating business requirements to stories, assigning priority, and ensuring requirements are clearly defined.
• Attend backlog refinement meetings to help the development team understand each product story for sizing, help clarify requirements and track takeaways to resolution
• Communicate progress, roadblocks, issues on a regular basis to Product Manager or Director and senior management
• Ownership of product management Agile lifecycle includes : attending standup meetings; keeping an open dialogue with the development and QA teams on roadblocks;
• managing all "in sprint" changes; understanding the available options and impacts while working with the product manager to resolve shifts in priority;

verifying each story meets the requirements by providing a pass / fail for each.

Daily Operations & Support

• Troubleshoot and collaborate across departments on client issues to find effective solutions. Create backlog items as needed.
• Ensure products are tracking against plans and recommend changes where appropriate.
• Identify key metrics for backlog priority and regularly report on progress against plans.
• Proactively identify where plans may need adjustments and recommend corrective actions.

Teamwork & Communication

• Work to foster and enhance teamwork within the organization.
• Provide the highest quality products and services to each other and our clients.
• Consistently promotes and models the culture and values of CUDC. Demonstrates the behaviors aligned with each value with clients and employees across the organization

The Ideal Candidate :

Education :

Bachelor's degree in business or equivalent work experience in the automotive and / or lending industries

Experience :

• A minimum of 2 years of software product management experience.
• Some technical background, with preferred hands-on experience in software development, engineering or related fields

Specialized Skills :

• Knowledge of the financial consumer lending industry and / or the automotive sales process
• Ability to develop and document operational processes
• Strong organizational skills with ability to develop plans, set objectives, and manage to results
• Proactive approach to identifying and solving issues that will impede success of the products
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experience managing projects
• Excellent teamwork skills
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
• Must be able to travel 10% of the time

Why you should apply :

• Flexible Working Environment
• Paid Time Off
• 401k (8% match)
• College Tuition Benefits / Tuition Reimbursement
• Good Benefits options
• Company Culture! Cultural and Holiday celebrations, Theme days like Star Wars Day & Bring your Kids to Work Day, Monthly Townhalls and Quarterly Company Meetings that ensure awareness, inclusion, and transparency.

The starting salary range for this full-time position in Irvine, CA is $99,400 - $124,300 per year. This base pay will take into consideration internal equity, candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge and experience among other factors.

Origence maintains a highly competitive compensation program. Under company guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual bonus to provide an incentive to achieve targeted goals.

Bonuses are awarded at company's discretion on an individual basis.

Origence is an equal opportunity employer. All recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, and other terms and conditions of employment will be based upon an individuals' qualifications regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, military service, marital status, pregnancy, age, protected medical condition, genetic information, disability or any other category protected by federal, state or local law.