Senior Agile Product Owner

Role Overview

• Own and maintain a healthy, prioritized backlog that aligns with business goals, customer needs, and product strategies
• Translate product roadmaps and priorities into features, user stories, and acceptance criteria that teams can execute
• Lead backlog refinement activities to ensure work is ready, well-defined, testable, and aligned with delivery standards
• Prioritize work based on customer value, business impact, risk, dependencies, and team capacity
• Serve as the voice of the customer and ensure delivery teams understand stakeholder and business needs
• Partner with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Architects, Engineers, QA, and Operations teams to define and deliver solutions
• Approve completed work and validate that features meet requirements, quality standards, and customer expectations
• Use Jira or similar Agile tools to manage backlog health, story progress, blockers, and dependencies
• Support Agile ceremonies, including PI Planning, sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, retrospectives, demos, and Inspect & Adapt activities
• Identify and resolve risks, blockers, dependencies, and prioritization conflicts, escalating when needed
• Coordinate release readiness activities, including communications, documentation, user readiness, and post-release validation
• Monitor delivery, quality, customer feedback, and operational metrics to improve team performance and outcomes
• Lead, coach, and develop Product Owners and Agile team members on backlog management, story writing, prioritization, and customer value delivery
• Promote Agile principles, collaboration, continuous improvement, innovation, and a customer-first mindset

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• Strong experience as an Agile Product Owner in Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, ART, or other large-scale Agile environments
• Experience translating business and customer needs into features, user stories, and actionable backlog items
• Proven ability to manage backlogs, acceptance criteria, definitions of ready, and definitions of done
• Strong understanding of Agile planning, backlog refinement, sprint planning, PI Planning, and release management
• Experience working with Jira or similar Agile project management tools
• Ability to build strong relationships and influence stakeholders across business and technology teams
• Strong communication, facilitation, prioritization, negotiation, and decision-making skills
• Experience coaching Product Owners and improving Agile delivery practices
• Ability to manage competing priorities, navigate ambiguity, and resolve dependencies and risks
• Strong customer focus with the ability to balance business value, technical feasibility, and delivery commitments

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k)
• Company paid life insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year
• Paid holidays
• Leaves of absence
• Comprehensive range of benefits with a focus on supporting whole health