Product Owner - Enterprise DnA Platforms

at  Toyota

WHO WE ARE

Collaborative. Respectful. A place to dream and do. These are just a few words that describe what life is like at Toyota. As one of the world’s most admired brands, Toyota is growing and leading the future of mobility through innovative, high-quality solutions designed to enhance lives and delight those we serve. We’re looking for diverse, talented team members who want to Dream. Do. Grow. with us.
We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!
Our people make all the difference in our success.
An important part of the Toyota family is Toyota Financial Services (TFS), the finance and insurance brand for Toyota and Lexus in North America. While TFS is a separate business entity, it is an essential part of this world-changing company- delivering on Toyota’s vision to move people beyond what’s possible. At TFS, you will help create best-in-class customer experience in an innovative, collaborative environment.

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR

The TFS Data and Analytics organization (DnA) is looking for a passionate and highly-motivated Product Owner for its Enterprise DnA Platform (EDP) domain.
The EDP Product Owner plays a critical role in leading the planning, development, and execution of complex technical initiatives that enable new/enhanced digital capabilities critical to transforming the existing EDP Common Dimensions. These capabilities are focused on enhancing the customer/dealer experience, leveraging the data platforms to drive speed and flexibility and drive profitability via revenue generation and/or cost reductions.
The Product Owner (PO) will be responsible for defining the mission and priorities that drive efficiencies, innovation, and improvements to support the achievement of the domain OKRs. The position requires regular and effective partnership with IT, DnA, business teams, and other Domains to enhance data engineering solutions and process modernization. This involves leading quality delivery of capabilities, software development, and/or data reporting while mitigating TFS’s risk exposure. A PO is responsible for maximizing the return on investment, enabling business value/results, and managing stakeholder expectations.

• End-to-end product ownership, business process design, and product roadmap execution.
• Lead the factory product roadmap and release planning, refining a robust backlog using agile best practices.
• Solve for dependencies and resource needs.
• Serves as a change agent who will regularly interact and influence decision making of management, stakeholders and team members as needed.
• Collaborate with other factories to help define and deliver solutions and capabilities that result in the highest business value.
• Define and track metrics to focus on business value realization throughout the product lifecycle.
• Work with Domain Leadership to ensure the highest value is being delivered for funding received and will plan resources and manage financials.
• Actively lead and participate in factory and domain ceremonies and executive meetings.
• Build, manage and maintain vendor and partner relationships
• Effectively create and distribute communications to internal and/or external customers regarding releases.