Product Owner

This is an onsite role; only local candidates will be considered.

• Serves as the primary bridge between business stakeholders, IT teams, technical product owners, architects, developers, QA teams, data teams, vendors, and executive leadership.
  
• Partners with business customers to understand strategic goals, operational needs, pain points, business rules, and desired outcomes, translating them into actionable product requirements.
  
• Leads requirements discovery sessions, stakeholder interviews, workshops, story-mapping sessions, backlog refinement, sprint planning support, product demonstrations, and acceptance activities.
  
• Develops and maintains product visions, roadmaps, epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, use cases, process flows, decision tables, business rules, and requirements traceability artifacts.
  
• Owns, prioritizes, refines, and maintains the product backlog based on customer value, strategic objectives, delivery risk, regulatory obligations, technical dependencies, team capacity, and release sequencing.
  
• Collaborates with technical product owners and engineering teams to interpret technical documentation, architecture diagrams, interface specifications, APIs, data models, and implementation tradeoffs.
  
• Defines measurable product outcomes, KPIs, acceptance measures, release goals, and success criteria, and communicates status, risks, dependencies, and decisions to stakeholders and leadership.
  
• Supports user acceptance testing by developing business scenarios, validating coverage, coordinating business participants, and confirming delivered functionality satisfies approved acceptance criteria.
  
• Uses AI-enabled tools to improve the speed and quality of requirements development, technical-document analysis, user-story refinement, backlog planning, dependency analysis, and stakeholder communications.
  
• Reviews and validates all AI-assisted output for accuracy, completeness, traceability, confidentiality, bias, and intellectual-property concerns prior to incorporation into project work products.
  
• Maintains product documentation, decision logs, change history, requirements traceability, backlog health metrics, release notes, and risk and dependency logs.
  

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications: Candidates must meet all minimum qualifications

• 8 years of experience serving as a Product Owner, Senior Business Analyst, Product Manager, or comparable role bridging business and technology teams.
  
• 8 years of experience eliciting, analyzing, documenting, and validating complex business, functional, and nonfunctional requirements.
  
• 8 years of experience developing and refining epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, use cases, process flows, and requirements traceability.
  
• 8 years of experience owning and prioritizing product backlogs in Agile, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or hybrid delivery environments.
  
• 8 years of experience defining product roadmaps, release plans, measurable outcomes, KPIs, dependencies, risks, and delivery priorities.
  
• 5 years of professional experience using generative AI or AI-enabled productivity tools to support requirements, technical-document analysis, user-story refinement, backlog planning, or stakeholder communications.
  
• 5 years of experience reviewing and validating AI-assisted output for accuracy, confidentiality, traceability, and alignment with source materials.
  
• 5 years of experience with AI governance, responsible AI practices, prompt design, retrieval-augmented workflows, or enterprise AI adoption.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Current Product Owner or product-management certification such as CSPO, PSPO, SAFe POPM, or an equivalent recognized certification.
  
• Current Agile and/or Scrum certification.
  

Additional Requirements:

• Local candidates only; must currently live within 50 miles of the Austin, Texas work location.​
  

Work Location and Schedule: