See yourself at Radian? We see you here too.
At Radian, we see you. For the person you are and the potential you hold. That’s why we’ve embraced a new way of working that lets our people across the country be themselves, be their best and be their boldest. Because when each of us is truly seen, each of us gives our best – and at Radian, we’ll give you our best right back.
Studies have shown that job seekers may hesitate to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification listed. We strive to see the potential in each applicant, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience or education level doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
See Yourself as a VP, Product Owner
As the VP, Product Owner you will be responsible for the overall product vision and strategy, for a Radian product. You will need to be a passionate voice for the product and be a problem solver. The position will maintain the product roadmap and be responsible for communicating with stakeholders including customers, senior managers, and the delivery teams to make sure the goals are clear and the vision is aligned with business objectives. As the VP, Product Owner you will specify and deliver the business requirements for the product and create user stories to support them.
You will manage the product backlog by creating the list of backlog items and grooming and prioritizing them. As the VP, Product Owner you will also need to be an active participant in Scrums and sprint planning, ensuring that the delivery teams are focused and have all pertinent product information to be successful. This position will serve as the primary communicator and link between stakeholders and delivery teams and need to be expert communicators, making sure there’s buy-in from stakeholders on all major decisions and strategy and clear instructions and deliverables for the delivery teams. As the voice of the customer, you will specify requirements for current and future deliveries by conducting market research supported by on-going conversations with customers and non-customers, and by analyzing potential partner relationships. As the VP, Product Owner you will sign-off for completion of sprints and deployments.
See Your Primary Duties And Responsibilities
- Create overall vision and strategy to support the product business and revenue goals and objectives. Represent the product vision and be the voice of the customer (internal and external) to maximize and drive holistic customer experience.
- Define and maintain product roadmap and establish regular process for collection, inventory and review of product feedback and suggestions for use in developing feature and functionality design and content to optimize customer growth and retention.
- Develop and document business use cases and requirements to communicate expected features and functionalities, create visual design prototypes, prepare user stories and acceptance criteria ready for development work, and prioritize such stories based on maximizing stakeholders needs and business benefit, support with defined and measurable metrics.
- Collaborate in agile and scrum meetings, and as part of cross-functional product and delivery platform team to ensure successful execution of product plan. Lead product-team QA and UAT test plans and testing. Provide product team sign-off of deliveries and deployments. Act as team champion to "get things done".
- Collaborate with marketing, legal, training, customer success and other business areas to promote the successful adoption of SaaS solution.
- Track and report on product progress towards customer and product goals to management and other stakeholders. Socialize new releases and features.
- Perform other duties as assigned or apparent.
See the Job Specifications
Your Knowledge
- Direct product experience creating, launching and supporting a product preferably in Fintech or Real Estate Tech (Realtech) and/or Property Tech (Proptech) and/or InsurTech.
- Extensive knowledge of agile and scrum principles.
- Knowledge of the product delivery and software development life cycle and the tools and technology commonly used to support product management.
- Knowledge of customer success and training techniques.
- Knowledge of real estate markets and agent activities.
Your Skills And Abilities
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) and the ability to communicate with clarity to a broad set of stakeholders and collaborators.
- Ability to analyze problems, identifying different alternatives, selecting, and implementing the best alternative, and evaluating results quickly and critically.
- Proven experience in developing and executing on strategic initiatives both independently and collaboratively.
- Ability and desire to drive success and accept accountability.
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage a pipeline.
- Extensive experience with Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence) and product management tools.
- Extensive experience with design and wireframe tools (Figma) to support vision definition.
Additional Qualifications
- Capital Markets experience strongly preferred
- Must have experience leading and developing employees at all levels.
Your Education, Certifications And Prior Work-Related Experience
- Degree Requirement: Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience
- Degree Preferred: Master's Degree or Equivalent Experience
- Work Experience: 8 or more years of prior work experience
See Your Location
Radian is committed to a flexible work environment for many of our roles. This is a *
Work From Anywhere* role meaning you have the flexibility to work from home (or another designated workspace that fits your needs).
This role provides additional flexibility should you want to work on-site at a Radian office. Explore our office locations here and let your Talent Acquisition Partner know you would be interested in working on-site.
- Work From Anywhere is subject to Radian’s Alternative Work Policy and business needs.
See Why You Should Work With Us
- Competitive Compensation: anticipated base salary rate from $137,800 to $196,800 based on skills and experience. This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program and a long-term incentive program.
- Rest and Relaxation. This role is eligible for 30 days of paid time off annually, which is prorated in the year of hire based on hire date. In addition, based on your hire date, you will be eligible for 9 paid holidays + 2 floating holiday in support of our DEI culture. Parental leave is also offered as an opportunity for all new parents to embrace this exciting change in their lives.
- Our Company Makes an Impact. We’ve been recognized by multiple organizations like Bloomberg’s Gender-Equality Index, HousingWire’s Tech 100, and The Forum of Executive Women’s Champion of Board Diversity. Radian has also pledged to PwC’s CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion commitment.
- Comprehensive Health Benefits. Multiple medical plan choices, including HSA and FSA options, dental, vision, and basic life insurance.
- Prepare for your Future. 401(k) with a top of market company match (did we mention the company match is immediately vested?!) and an opportunity to participate in Radian’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
- Homebuyer Perks. Our Homebuyer Perks program helps employees navigate the home searching, buying, selling, and refinancing processes and provides valuable financial benefits to encourage, enable, and support home ownership.
- Additional Benefits. To learn more about our benefits offerings, visit our Benefits Page.
The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.
See More About Radian
Radian is a fintech servicing the mortgage and real estate services industry. As a team, we pride ourselves on seeing the potential of every person, every idea and every day.
Seeing each other at Radian goes far beyond our open, flexible culture. It means seeing our people’s potential – and creating inspiring career paths that help them get there. Or seeing new pathways and innovating for the future of our industry. It means seeing each other for all that we are. And it means seeing our purpose as one that extends beyond the bottom line – having an impact on communities across the country to help more people achieve the American Dream of homeownership.
We hope you’ll see yourself at Radian. See more about us at Radian.com.
Defining Roles for Radian's Future
Understanding the qualities and characteristics that define a Leader and an Employee is important to building our future-fit workforce. Radian's future is only as bright as its people. For that reason, our People Plan includes profiles to support the qualities and characteristics that each Leader as well as each Employee should embody upon hire or via development.
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Accommodation
Whether you require an accommodation for the job application or interview process, Radian is dedicated to a barrier-free employment process and encourages a diverse workforce. If you have questions about the accommodation process, please e-mail careers@radian.com.
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