IT Product Owner III

About the role

We're building intelligent product search that understands intent, learns from behavior, and gets smarter over time. You'll partner with a Business Owner who sets the strategic direction—your job is to take that vision and execute: decomposing it into engineering-ready work, keeping the team unblocked, and ensuring every sprint delivers measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Backlog & Execution: Internalize Business Owner priorities and translate them into a groomed, estimated, sprint-ready backlog. Write clear user stories with acceptance criteria; decompose ML features into shippable increments with the Architects. Run sprint ceremonies, maintain delivery cadence, and shield the team from scope creep.
• Discovery & Requirements: Lead discovery with Merchandising, Sales, and Customer Success to surface unmet search needs. Partner with Architects to validate technical feasibility before committing to sprint scope. Escalate prioritization conflicts to the Business Owner with clear options—not just problems.
• Experimentation & Measurement: Partner with the Business Owner to define success criteria and relevance KPIs for A/B experiments (CTR, zero-result rate, NDCG, conversion-from-search). Coordinate instrumentation with engineering and surface experiment results to the Business Owner in clear, actionable terms.

Requirements

• 5-8 years product ownership experience; including 2+ years on a search, AI, or ML product in ecommerce.
• Proven ability to execute alongside a Business Owner—translating strategy into backlogs without owning the vision.
• Familiarity with ecommerce search patterns: faceting, query understanding, merchandising rules, relevance tuning.
• Experience tracking search KPIs and interpreting A/B experiment results with statistical rigor.
• Strong communicator across engineering, data science, and business stakeholders.
• Agile/Scrum practitioner comfortable in fast-moving, cross-functional ML teams.

Nice to have

• B2B or industrial ecommerce background; knowledge of ML concepts (embeddings, vector search, reranking, RAG).
• Experience with Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, LaunchDarkly, GCP, or product analytics tools (Adobe Analytics, BigQuery).

Physical Demands

LICENSES & CERTIFICATIONS: None required.

Supervisory Responsibility

No Supervisory Responsibility

Budget Responsibility

No Budget Responsibility

Company Information

Motion offers an excellent benefits package which includes options for healthcare coverage, 401(k), tuition reimbursement, vacation, sick, and holiday pay.

Disclaimer

This job description illustrates the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this job classification. It is not intended to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and skills required. Management retains the right to add or modify duties at any time.