Position Summary:
We are seeking a dedicated and strategic Appian, DealCloud and Anaplan Product Owner to join our team. Product Owner role involves overseeing the lifecycle and continuous improvement of our Appian and Anaplan platforms for Carlyle’s Global Investment Solutions Segment. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in business process management and financial planning solutions, ensuring that both platforms efficiently meet our organizational needs. The Product Owner will lead GTS product team to analyze the business needs of stakeholders, identify business problems, propose solutions, and assure that projects are properly prioritized and that task deadlines are enforced.
Responsibilities:
Product Owner (Anaplan, Appian & DealCloud)
- Serve as the point of contact and subject matter expert from a business perspective on the applications owned.
- Coordinate rollout plan, user enablement, and follow up and analyzing adoption of features
- Define how features will work and look through close collaboration with project team in design sessions, mockups, UX review, and usability testing.
- Lead Anaplan, DealCloud and Appian development team, setting clear goals based on the roadmap, and oversee the implementation of financial models, and BPM workflows, features and functionalities ensuring they meet business requirements and user satisfaction.
- Serve as the Financial Planning & Modeling Product Owner, and Business Process Management (BPM) Product Owner, managing and optimizing the multiple applications within the Anaplan, Appian and DealCloud Platforms to support business objectives.
- Execute strategies to digitize data and processes for efficiency. Collaborates with stakeholders on product vision and strategy.
- Works with GIS Stakeholders to defines new and or enhanced product requirements and functionality to promote and drive business enablement, continuous data analytics and reporting improvements.
- Lead product vision and roadmap planning with GIS Chief Product Owner, GIS CIO and GIS Domain Lead to launch products that deliver data driven business insights.
Business Process Re-engineering
- Works with GTS Partner to manage vendor relationships.
- Identifies and escalates capacity, resource, and deliverable risks as needed.
- Works with our GTS technical leads to understand technical debt and other technical impediments at a high level so that they can be prioritized on the roadmap.
- Continuously improve and re-engineer processes across the GIS segment.
- Perform gap assessments, provide recommendations to process, product, and technology partners, and drive the implementation of strategic realignment initiatives to meet business objectives.
- Use insights, design, and end-to-end thinking to drive user-centric changes, identify and remedy pain points in users journeys, and implement actions to close gaps.
- Lead the mapping of business processes to understand current states and design future states across various dimensions, including internal teams, business capabilities, control points, technology platforms, and data domains.
- Understands end-to-end processes and how they relate to relevant value streams of key capabilities within respective team, domain, and focus area.
Production Support
- Works with GTS Partner to manage vendor relationships.
- Identifies and escalates capacity, resource, and deliverable risks as needed.
- Works with our GTS technical leads to understand technical debt and other technical impediments at a high level so that they can be prioritized on the roadmap.
Agile Product Development
- Create and maintain a team-level product roadmap to communicate priorities and key deliverables.
- Breaks down roadmap into backlog items like epics and stories, prioritizes them for sprints based on the product roadmap, and defines the MVP and its release plans.
- Collaborates with the Scrum Master and agile team to plan sprints, author user stories with clear acceptance criteria, and manage the team's workload and dynamics.
- Facilitates user acceptance testing (UAT), manages feedback for new products and services, and ensures consistent engagement with the agile team for efficient roadmap planning.
- Provides bi-weekly release updates to stakeholders and partners with key teams to drive product updates and developments.
- Offers hands-on training to end-users, translating their needs into actionable business requirements, and supports the overall execution and delivery of product initiatives.
Qualifications:
Education & Certificates
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Concentration in Finance, Computer Science, Information Technology, Accounting Information Systems, or related field, strongly preferred.
- Certified Scrum Product Owner Certification preferred.
Professional Experience
While structured learning and coaching will be provided, the following qualifications are recommended:
- Minimum of 12 years of overall professional experience, required.
- Minimum of 7 years of experience working in an Agile environment, strongly preferred.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Good knowledge of private equity/asset management business, value streams, and technology and a deep, tactical way of thinking.
- Ability to translate strategic directions and business objectives into team goals.
- Know how to break down key features into appropriate user stories.
- Experience running high-impact initiatives within the organization.
- Effective delegator with proven management of cross-functional teams without direct supervision
- Ability to manage conflicting priorities and can differentiate between distractions and the roadblocks that can impact goals.
- Ability to drive consensus among stakeholders, manage expectations, and build strong relationships.
Benefits/Compensation
The compensation range for this role is specific to Washington, D.C. and takes into account a wide range of factors including but not limited to the skill sets required/preferred; prior experience and training; licenses and/or certifications.
The anticipated base salary range for this role is $185,000 to $205,000.
In addition to the base salary, the hired professional will enjoy a comprehensive benefits package spanning retirement benefits, health insurance, life insurance and disability, paid time off, paid holidays, family planning benefits and various wellness programs. Additionally, the hired professional may also be eligible to participate in an annual discretionary incentive program, the award of which will be dependent on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.
Due to the high volume of candidates, please be advised that only candidates selected to interview will be contacted by Carlyle.
Company Profile:
The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) is a global investment firm with $426 billion of assets under management and more than half of the AUM managed by women, across 586 investment vehicles as of December 31, 2023. Founded in 1987 in Washington, DC, Carlyle has grown into one of the world's largest and most successful investment firms, with more than 2,200 professionals operating in 28 offices in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. Carlyle places an emphasis on development, retention and inclusion as supported by our internal processes and seven Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). Carlyle's purpose is to invest wisely and create value on behalf of its investors, which range from public and private pension funds to wealthy individuals and families to sovereign wealth funds, unions and corporations. Carlyle invests across three segments - Global Private Equity, Global Credit and Investment Solutions - and has expertise in various industries, including: aerospace, defense & government services, consumer & retail, energy, financial services, healthcare, industrial, real estate, technology & business services, telecommunications & media and transportation.
At Carlyle, we know that diverse teams perform better, so we seek to create a community where we continually exchange insights, embrace different perspectives and leverage diversity as a competitive advantage. That is why we are committed to growing and cultivating teams that include people with a variety of perspectives, people who provide unique lenses through which to view potential deals, support and run our business.
Company Profile: AlpInvest Partners B.V.
AlpInvest is a leading global private equity investor with approximately USD 67 billion of assets under management as per March 31, 2023. Approximately 70% of these funds are invested in private equity funds globally, including secondary transactions, with the remainder invested directly in companies as a co-investor (equity and mezzanine) in Europe, North America and non-traditional markets. The company has approximately 225 employees and is part of The Carlyle Group.
