Associate Product Owner

At the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives.

In fiscal year 2026, IFC committed a record $105.6 billion to private companies and financial institutions in developing countries. For more information, visit www.ifc.org.

Department Context

The mission of the Corporate Information Technologies Department (CIT) is to leverage technology to enable IFC’s strategic priorities and to support IFC’s business and operations. By acting as the technology partner and business enabler, the department provides state-of-art information and technology solutions to support IFC’s Investment Advisory Services, Financial Operations, Treasury the Asset Management Company. We work closely with the business to design solutions that automate business processes, help enable business responsiveness to clients, improve operational efficiency and organizational effectiveness, and manage risks.

CIT aims to ensure that our solutions meet the business needs of users across a range of functions, including operations and corporate business processes, information, knowledge and learning, data and analytics, and more.

Duties and accountabilities

• In coordination with the Product Manager, continuously evolve the Salesforce product vision, strategy, and roadmap in alignment with the Bank Group’s institutional and IT strategic priorities.
• Evaluate Salesforce capabilities (standard vs custom) to ensure optimal design choices
• Translate business and stakeholder needs into a well-prioritized backlog of epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Serve as the principal point of accountability for product decisions, balancing stakeholder demands, technical feasibility, and resource constraints.
• Support in Agile/Scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint review, retrospectives), ensuring the development team has clear, actionable guidance.
• Review and formally accept completed work against defined acceptance criteria and quality standards.
• Establish and track product success metrics (adoption, performance, user satisfaction, business value realized); use data to inform ongoing prioritization.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with business sponsors, client departments, and senior stakeholders across the institution.
• Manage trade-offs between scope, time, and resources; communicate impacts transparently to leadership and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture, security, UX, and QA functions to ensure the product is secure, scalable, and aligned with WBG technology standards.
• Ensure alignment with Salesforce best practices and enterprise standards