Associate Product Owner

**About the Role**:
**Grade Level (for internal use)**: 09

**The Team**:
Our Digital Investor Relations team under Global Markets Intelligence, believe that happy people collaborating is key to our success, therefore, our program is built on a foundation of mutual respect, empowerment, and adaptability. We take pride in each team member’s accountability and responsibility, and we put the success of our individuals first, because we know that their success, will create success for our program. We welcome humor, confidence, individuality, and imagination because we know what makes you unique will help us solve the unique problems of our team, business, and clients. Our team manages a portfolio of digital products supporting the Investor Relations community in their core IR workflows and enabling the efforts of our internal advisory business. Together we enable over 2K Global Corporates to manage their engagement with the investment community.

**The Impact**:
The Product Owners within S&P Global Market Intelligence Investor Relations program work as part of an Agile program. In this role, you will work closely with our Data Engineering and Cloud Engineering teams to analyze and design functional enhancements to our data and infrastructure systems and support the maintenance of the existing ecosystem. Your primary responsibility is to understand the challenges of our users, internal and external, and work alongside SMEs, Engineers, Product Owners, & Product Managers to define key features for both internal and external end users. Your role is also to educate & guide your scrum team through the development cycle to deliver value to the customer.

**What’s in it for You**:
You will be collaborating with an international team, operating in over 10 countries.

Our team culture prides itself on inclusivity and empowerment, we want everyone to feel seen and heard at work.

You will have the opportunity of exposure to senior leadership and mentors to help identify & nurture your unique skills & talent.

At S&P Global we have a global footprint of over 34K colleagues, which creates incredible opportunities for future growth within and outside of our team.

**Responsibilities**:
Support your assigned scrum teams by writing user stories, managing the backlog, refinement & prioritization, and clearing blockers.

Work with product and engineering teams to elicit requirements, identify solutions & deliver well-defined functional specifications for new data and infrastructure projects and in support of the existing ecosystem.

Ensure requirements are communicated correctly to development teams.

Help the team to remove blockers, answer questions about stories and leverage your internal relationships and network to progress feature development.

Be an active contributor in agile ceremonies.

**What We’re Looking For**:
At least 1-2 years of experience as a SQL analyst, data engineer, or DevOps engineer, or similar, and some experience as a business analyst or product owner.

Strong execution and product delivery skills working to defined deadlines.

Familiarity with Jira, AWS, and SQL are a bonus.

Ability to break down technical issues into easily digestible data points for stakeholder consumption and for developer execution.

Excellent English written and verbal communication skills and experience interacting with stakeholders, both internal and external, peers, and leaders.

Mindset that encourages collaboration, self-organization, accountability, and a drive to deliver high-quality products.

Values collaborative teamwork to define, design, develop and deliver high-impact product, project, or process initiatives.

Ability to collaborate and influence in cross-functional teams.

Curious and self-starter.

About S&P Global Market Intelligence

At S&P Global Market Intelligence, a division of S&P Global we understand the importance of accurate, deep and insightful information. Our team of experts delivers unrivaled insights and leading data and technology solutions, partnering with customers to expand their perspective, operate with confidence, and make decisions with conviction.

What’s In It For You?

**Our Purpose**:
Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology-the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.

Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.

**Our People**:
We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.