Product Owner II

About the role

We’re seeking a Product Owner II to help shape the future of how MISO manages the electrical grid. Our Control Room Operators depend on our Operations Communications and Logging & Compliance tools every day to maintain reliable grid operations. These mission-critical applications power real-time status sharing, coordinated action, smooth operator workflows, and effortless compliance. In this role, you will own the vision and roadmap for a suite of operator and market-facing applications, ensuring they align with user needs, business objectives, and evolving industry trends.

As MISO transitions from a project-based structure to a product operating model, you’ll bring clarity, advocate for user-centered outcomes, and help define what great product ownership looks like in a complex and rapidly evolving environment. This position is ideal for someone who thrives on collaboration, continuous improvement, and building the structure needed to support long-term product success.

Responsibilities

• Drive the product vision and roadmap by aligning user needs, business goals, industry trends, and product health insights with long-term strategic priorities.
• Lead discovery through targeted questioning, workflow analysis, and close collaboration with operators and SMEs to prioritize essential research.
• Serve as a product evangelist by aligning cross-functional teams around objectives and outcomes.
• Apply Agile and product mindset to foster adaptability, learning, and user-centered thinking while empowering teams and improving delivery practices.
• Connect product decisions to user workflows, outcomes, and business objectives, anticipating emerging needs and aligning initiatives with strategic goals.
• Build business cases, maintain and prioritize the backlog, validate completed work, and lead release planning, solution definition, innovation efforts, and communication across stakeholders.
• Identify complex insights from product metrics, develop new measures when needed, and use data to guide product direction.
• Champion responsible, high-value use of AI to enhance product management practices, improve analysis, and accelerate value delivery.
• Promote innovation, identifying improvement opportunities and creative solutions that advance real-time communication, shared awareness, logging accuracy, and readiness.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field (or 4 years relevant work experience equivalency).
• 3-6 years of experience in product management, product ownership, business analysis, systems engineering, or related experience.
• Proven experience shaping and driving product vision and roadmaps.
• Strong servant leadership skills with the ability to facilitate collaboration, resolve conflicts, and drive continuous improvement.
• Working knowledge of software development concepts and Agile methodologies.
• Familiarity with user experience best practices and translating business needs into effective solutions.
• Demonstrated experience applying AI tools in product management to improve productivity, analysis, and workflow.
• Energy industry experience is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Scrum Product Owner, SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager, and/or PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner.

Pay

The base salary compensation range for this role is $143,000 - $168,000 USD annually. Base salary range for this position is included in accordance with requirements of various state/local pay transparency legislation. Salaries may vary based on factors including but not limited to location, individual competencies, education, professional certifications, and qualifications/experience.

This position is also eligible for an annual bonus if individual performance and company objectives are met.

Benefits

At MISO, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including 401k, vacation, sick, and safe time, available on your first day of employment.