Product Owner

About the role

The Product Owner is responsible for ensuring that technology products of moderate complexity, which may include AI-enabled features, meet stakeholder needs and business requirements. An ideal candidate has some experience owning a product or product component and a working understanding of product management techniques. The candidate must be able to translate business value and goals into refined product backlogs, typically with guidance from a senior Product Manager.

Responsibilities

• Vision (30%): Understand product market fit, product life cycle, and long-term strategy; support product-level decisions and recommendations with a senior Product Manager; collaborate with stakeholders to maintain and communicate the product roadmap; translate general product vision into specific features; contribute to long-term planning through regular road mapping; use AI-assisted tools for research, documentation, and roadmap communication, applying judgment about when AI output needs validation from a senior team member.
• Refinement & Prioritization (40%): Help identify business goals and problem statements to ensure product alignment; work with stakeholders to define business value and use this definition to assess each feature/story; understand stakeholders’ vision and assist in defining it; identify requirements and work with the delivery team to write, refine, and review/approve user stories; understand the various users of the product, including other systems that may consume it; work with stakeholders to prioritize work in the backlog to maximize delivered value.
• Delivery & Leadership (30%): Ensure delivered products meet stakeholder needs and business requirements; ensure the team understands the product vision and story context and has adequate information to deliver; demo product to clients and stakeholders and confirm it meets their needs; assess delivery progress and communicate with stakeholders; collaborate with other Product Owners (internal and client) to share and apply best practices; monitor product metrics and help identify opportunities to increase business value under the guidance of a Product Manager.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business or industry‑related experience preferred (or equivalent experience).
• 3+ years’ experience in a Product Owner technology‑related role or equivalent type experience.
• Developing experience in helping stakeholders identify business value/objectives and using this to help prioritize work.
• Working understanding of ‘Personas’ and how to identify users and represent their needs.
• Capable of researching, analyzing, and helping identify requirements.
• Developing skill in breaking down and organizing requirements, with a growing understanding of the relationship between business goals, product vision and Epics/Features/Stories.
• Foundational balance of technical knowledge, business acumen, and Agile knowledge, including basic AI/data literacy and awareness of responsible AI practices.
• Developing consulting skills.
• Ability to contribute to end‑to‑end delivery of solutions across a variety of solutions and technologies, utilizing agile principles.

Schedule

Position will be hybrid working three days a week in our Fenton, MO location (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday).