Senior Data Product Owner Jobs in Riverside, CA (NOW HIRING)

.Who We Are

Through our service brands Hyundai Motor Finance, Genesis Finance, and Kia Finance, Hyundai Capital America offers a wide range of financial products tailored to meet the needs of Hyundai, Genesis, and Kia customers and dealerships.  We provide vehicle financing, leasing, subscription, and insurance solutions to over 3 million consumers and businesses. Embodying our commitment to grow, innovate, and diversify, we strive to reimagine the customer and dealer experience and launch innovative new products that broaden our market reach. We believe that success comes from within and are proud to support our team members through skill development and career advancement. Hyundai Capital America is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture for our workforce. We are a values-driven company dedicated to supporting both internal and external communities through volunteering, philanthropy, and the empowerment of our Employee Resource Groups. Together, we strive to be the leader in financing freedom of movement.

We Take Care of Our People

Along with competitive pay, as an employee of HCA, you are eligible for:

       Medical, dental, and vision plans with no-cost and low-cost options

       Annual employer HSA contribution

       401(k) matching and immediate vesting

       Vehicle purchase and lease discounts, plus monthly vehicle allowances by job level:

o   Associate / Sr. Associate: $350

o   Manager / Sr. Manager: $600

o   Director: $800

o   Executive Director: $900

o   VP or Above: $1,000

       100% employer-paid life and disability insurance

       No-cost health and wellbeing programs, including a gym benefit

       Six weeks of paid parental leave

       Paid Volunteer Time Off, plus a company donation to a charity of your choice

What to Expect

The Digital Product Owner owns and prioritizes the product backlog to maximize business value by translating business needs into clear, actionable user stories with defined acceptance criteria and testing. This role collaborates closely with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and effective delivery, drives Agile execution, manages priorities and risks, presents product demos to stakeholders, and ensures release readiness and seamless delivery. This role serves as a key contributor responsible for supporting dealer roadmaps, defining business requirements, and building business cases to support product strategy.

What You Will Do

1.     Backlog Support & Requirements Documentation

     Partner with stakeholders and end users to gather requirements and convert them into actionable user stories and supporting artifacts (journey maps, process flows, wireframes).

     Lead story elaboration and provide clarifications to delivery teams throughout the sprint/release lifecycle.

     Ensure requirements comply with relevant security, privacy, regulatory, accessibility, and audit standards (as applicable).

     Own and continuously refine the product backlog, ensuring items are clear, valuable, and ordered to maximize business impact.

     Prioritize features, enhancements, technical improvements, and defects using value, risk, dependencies, effort, and time sensitivity.

     Ensure backlog readiness by maintaining well-defined epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and Definition of Ready/Done.

2.     Stakeholder Coordination & Agile Team Support

     Serve as the primary product liaison across business, technology, operations, compliance, and leadership stakeholders.

     Facilitate alignment by setting expectations, negotiating scope, and managing competing priorities across stakeholder groups.

     Conduct regular stakeholder reviews/demos, gather feedback, and incorporate insights into roadmap/backlog decisions.

     Work closely with Scrum Master and cross-functional teams to ensure successful sprint planning, execution, and delivery.

     Ensure alignment on technical direction, integration needs, and non-functional requirements (performance, reliability, scalability).

     Participate in or lead key Agile ceremonies (refinement, planning, review, retrospective) to keep delivery focused on outcomes.

     Help remove ambiguity by making timely product decisions within assigned scope, sequencing, acceptance, and release readiness.

3.     Testing, Release & Continuous Improvement Support

     Coordinate release planning with IT, QA, DevOps, operations, training, and support teams.

     Ensure completion of released documentation, communications, training materials, and change management plans.

     Validate product readiness through UAT, signoffs, and operational preparedness.

     Track and monitor product success metrics (adoption, conversion, cycle time, NPS/DSS/CSAT, cost-to-serve, defect trends) and use insights to support prioritization and continuous improvement.

     Communicate product progress, performance, and risks to stakeholders with clear updates.

4.     Cross-Functional Collaboration & Delivery Coordination

     Collaborate with architects, IT leads, UX, data, security, and platform teams to ensure solutions are feasible, scalable, and aligned with product strategy.

     Identify, manage, and communicate cross-team and cross-platform dependencies, proactively mitigating delivery risks and bottlenecks.

     Manage relationships with external vendors and partners, ensuring alignment with product vision, scope, timelines, and quality expectations.

     Coordinate with vendors and partners to support delivery commitments, integration requirements, and performance expectations in collaboration with internal teams.

5.     Product Performance & Insights

     Support product and business leaders by contributing product insight and business domain knowledge to the execution of the digital and technology vision and roadmap for HCA's digital channels.

     Support the translation of strategic objectives into aligned goals, outcomes, and feature priorities to help improve dealer and customer experiences.

What You Will Bring

       Minimum 5-7 years progressive experience n a business strategy or digital product management role with exposure to a dealer/customer facing environment and/or back-office operations.

       Experience working in Agile or hybrid delivery environments with ownership in backlog management, requirements gathering, user story development, and cross-functional coordination.

       Experience in leading implementation, testing, release activities, or process improvement initiatives preferred.

       Automotive or financial services industries preferred.

       Experience with dealer, sales enablement, or commercial portals preferred.

       Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.

       MBA a plus.

       SAFe Agile and/or Six Sigma certification preferred.

       Salesforce certifications are a plus.

       Ability to work effectively both independently and collaboratively, demonstrating initiative, accountability, and adaptability in a fast-paced environment..

       Sound business judgment and understanding of strategic priorities, with the ability to deliver results in changing environments.

       Experience in product management, including backlog management, user story development, acceptance criteria, and support across the product lifecycle.

       Working knowledge of CRM systems, business process management, digital workflows, and automation.

       Ability to make informed decisions, recommend process improvements, and support change initiatives.

       Ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority to drive aligned product outcomes.

Experience managing end-to-end product delivery, balancing scope, quality, timelines, and customer value.

       Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to collaborate across business and technology teams and present effectively to stakeholders, including senior management.

       Familiarity with personas, customer journey mapping, and data-driven analysis. Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to present effectively to senior management.

       Working knowledge of system architecture, integrations, and related technical concepts preferred.

       Ability to manage multiple projects and vendor relationships simultaneously, with strong process discipline.

       Strong organizational and project coordination skills, including the ability to manage multiple priorities, vendor interactions, research, and analysis.

       Proficiency in business and presentation tools such as PowerPoint, Visio, Excel, Access, and Word.

Work Environment

Employees in this class are subject to extended periods of sitting, standing, and walking, vision to monitor and moderate noise levels. Work is performed in an at home and office environment.

The posted salary range for this job takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; geographic location, and other business and organizational needs. Successful candidates may be hired anywhere in the salary range based on these factors. It is uncommon to hire candidates at or near the top of the range.

California Privacy Notice

This notice only applies to our applicants who reside in the State of California.

The latest version of our Privacy Policy can be found here. This Privacy Policy provides you with notice, at or before the point of collection, about the categories of personal information to be collected from you, the purposes for which your personal information is collected or used, and whether that information is sold or shared, so that you can exercise meaningful control over our use of your personal information. We are providing this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 ("CCPA"). 

If you have any questions about CCPA regarding California residents or HCA team members, please contact the Privacy Team at Privacy2@hcs.com.