IT Product Owner

About the role

The Product Owner will take full ownership of moving high-value work from definition through delivery, providing leadership, decisive judgment, and strong partnership across business and technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the definition, prioritization, and delivery of product capabilities for an assigned digital application or product area.
• Serve as the primary point of accountability for product priorities, delivery coordination, and day-to-day follow-through within your scope.
• Partner with business stakeholders to influence roadmap direction and translate strategy into executable work.
• Manage stakeholder engagement and maintain alignment on priorities, scope, timing, and delivery decisions.
• Translate business needs, workflow gaps, and operational issues into clear requirements and actionable work.
• Collaborate closely with technical teams, including engineers, developers, analysts, testers, and vendors, to move work from definition through delivery.
• Maintain a clear backlog and ensure work is sequenced based on business value, dependencies, and operational need.
• Drive tradeoff discussions when scope, sequencing, or solution direction requires a decision.
• Help define acceptance criteria, validation needs, and release readiness expectations.
• Support operational stability by helping triage issues, coordinate resolution, and monitor product performance.
• Work through ambiguous problem spaces with strong judgment, surfacing gaps, risks, and dependencies early.
• Use AI-enabled tools and modern productivity methods to accelerate synthesis, analysis, documentation, and preparation.
• Continuously improve product workflows, documentation, and ways of working to improve speed, clarity, and execution.
• Help improve the quality and consistency of product definition across the team.

Qualifications

• Three to five years of experience in product ownership, application ownership, business analysis in a product environment, or a related digital delivery role.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and facilitation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize competing demands and make sound tradeoff recommendations.
• Experience coordinating with technical teams, vendors, or delivery partners.
• Ability to work in ambiguous environments and help define next steps with clarity and speed.
• Comfort supporting application delivery, operational stability, and continuous improvement.
• Strong written communication skills with the ability to produce clear roadmaps, requirements, acceptance criteria, and supporting documentation.
• Familiarity with AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, or similar, and a willingness to use them to improve speed and quality.
• Curiosity and discipline in using modern tools and methods to improve product execution.
• Familiarity with Agile or iterative delivery methods.
• Experience in enterprise software, workflow-heavy environments, or custom-built applications preferred.

Pay

The expected compensation range for this full-time position is $117,600 - $176,400 per year, which includes base pay and short-term incentive.

Benefits

• Care for Yourself and Your Family: Medical (with member reward points), dental, vision, and basic life insurance, Benefit Bucks, flexible work arrangements, paid family leaves, well-being programs, 12 holidays per year, 15 days of paid time off per year, opportunity to purchase company stock (eligibility depends on start date), and military leave benefits.
• Invest and Plan Your Future: Competitive pay and programs including base salary, incentives, company share ownership, and 401(k) with match.
• Grow Your Skills and Career: Performance discussions, global opportunities, the Schneider Career Hub, and learning platforms like Coursera.
• Team Up in the Workplace: Encouragement of collaboration, recognition, sharing your voice, and an inclusive workplace.
• Support Your Community: Volunteer leave, programs with the Schneider Electric Foundation, youth education initiatives, and military leave benefits.