Product Owner

About the role

Makai Makai uses best-in-class AI and data to solve real-world operational and strategic challenges at scale. We help businesses with enterprise automation, human-machine teaming, product design and development, and market intelligence.

About The Role

Makai Labs is seeking a Product Owner with a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and communication. You’ll play a critical role translating business strategy into actionable development work — managing product backlogs, defining clear user stories, and ensuring that engineering and design teams have what they need to execute efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Own the product backlog and keep priorities clear, current, and actionable.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies: backlog grooming, sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Track progress against goals, communicating updates clearly to stakeholders.
• Oversee testing and validation to ensure features meet acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to align user experience with business intent.
• Document, analyze, and iterate based on user feedback and performance metrics.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of direct Product Owner or similar experience.
• Strong understanding of Scrum and Agile product delivery.
• Proven success writing clear, detailed user stories and functional specs.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills — responsive and concise.
• Hightly organized and proactive, with strong follow-through.
• Experience working cross-functionally in fast-moving or startup environments.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, and Figma preferred.
• Nice-to-haves: Experience with SaaS, AI, or MLExperience with product marketing and crafting go-to-market strategies

Core values for Makai employees

• Be a flexible, innovative and creative thinker
• Be congenial and a team player
• Be self-sufficient
• Be self-driven with an ownership mentality
• Have a strong work ethic

Pay

Compensation Range: $120K - $130K