Product Owner

About The Role - Our Client is expanding its product organization to support continued growth across our core workforce analytics product lines: Benchmarking, Labor Costing, and Intelligence. The Product Owner will be embedded with one of our two agile engineering teams and will serve as the primary product partner for that team. This role reports directly to the Chief Product Officer and works in close collaboration with Product Management, Engineering, and all departments. The Product Owner is responsible for translating customer needs and business objectives into a well-defined, prioritized backlog of work, and for ensuring that the engineering team consistently delivers high-value outcomes through disciplined agile execution.

What You''ll Do

• Maintain a prioritized product backlog, including the authoring of user stories with clear, testable acceptance criteria
• Engage directly with customers and internal stakeholders to gather requirements, validate solutions, and ensure that the voice of the customer is reflected in product decisions
• Facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives in partnership with engineering leadership
• Communicate sprint priorities, release goals, and roadmap commitments to stakeholders across the organization
• Leverage AI tools, including Claude and comparable solution, to accelerate requirements development, prototype validation, user story creation, and discovery activities
• Partner with Product Management and User Experience to ensure that delivered features meet both customer expectations and product strategy objectives
• Collaborate effectively with engineering teams across multiple time zones, including offshore engineering partners.
• Contribute to the broader product vision, strategy, and roadmap in coordination with product leadership

Qualifications

• Minimum of three years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or comparable role within an agile software development environment
• Demonstrated proficiency using AI tools such as Claude or ChatGPT in day-to-day product work, including requirements drafting, prototyping, and discovery. Candidates should be prepared to discuss specific examples during the interview process
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex requirements clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
• Proficiency with backlog and road-map management tools such as Jira or Aha!
• Demonstrated ability to decompose ambiguous business problems into clearly scoped, deliverable increments of work

Work Location and Type: United States - Remote