Product Owner

Technical Product Owner – FinCrime / Fraud Initiatives

Optomi is seeking a Technical Product Owner to join a growing Consumer Banking Enterprise Transformation team in Charlotte, NC. This person will support fraud and financial crimes initiatives while partnering closely with both business stakeholders and engineering teams.

What the right candidate will enjoy:

• Being hands-on with product ownership, backlog management, and Agile delivery
• Working closely with engineering teams to turn business needs into actionable technical requirements
• Supporting high-visibility fraud, FinCrime, identity, and authentication initiatives
• Helping build out a new Product organization and establish processes
• Collaborating across Business, Technology, PMO, and Transformation teams
• Working across 1–2 Agile delivery pods at a time

The type of experience we’re looking for:

• Strong hands-on Technical Product Owner experience
• Strong Agile/Scrum and Jira experience
• Experience managing and prioritizing product backlogs
• Strong user story writing and refinement experience
• Experience working directly with engineering teams
• Strong requirements gathering and stakeholder management skills
• Experience in banking, financial services, or payments is highly preferred
• Background in fraud, Financial Crimes (FinCrime), authentication, or Identity & Access Management (IAM) is a major plus

What you’ll be doing:

• Own, manage, and prioritize product backlogs
• Create and refine user stories and acceptance criteria
• Ensure requirements are clear and sprint-ready for engineering
• Partner with engineering teams throughout delivery
• Translate business requirements into actionable technical work
• Support roadmap planning, ideation, and elaboration
• Maintain Jira and Agile delivery artifacts
• Balance competing priorities across business and technology stakeholders
• Support initiatives around fraud detection/prevention, customer authentication, IAM, digital fraud experiences, and data modernization