Product Owner

Product Owner

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product management, software developers, designers, quality assurance, and stakeholders to define, prioritize, and communicate product vision, strategy, and roadmap.

• Own and maintain the product backlog, ensuring that it is well-organized, up-to-date, and aligned with the overall product vision and business goals.

• Translate high-level business requirements into clear and actionable user stories, ensuring that they contain well-defined acceptance criteria and align with technical capabilities.

• Act as the primary point of contact between product management, technology lead and development team, ensuring that communication flows seamlessly and that stakeholder needs are effectively addressed.

• Regularly engage with product management, stakeholders developers and qa team to gather feedback, capture user insights, and validate that the product is meeting their expectations.

• With some guidance from technology lead, make informed decisions on scope, backlog priorities, and trade-offs while considering factors such as project timelines, technical constraints, dependencies, risks

• Lead sprint planning, backlog refinement, and sprint review sessions, PI planning documentation, jira input, jira cleanliness / completeness, & collaboration with the development team to ensure a clear understanding of the work to be done.

• Responsible for owning the creation and refinement of stories with the team to ensure there are enough ready stories to load the next 2-3 sprints.

• Provide guidance and support to the development team, clarifying requirements, resolving queries, and ensuring a shared understanding of the user stories.

• Continuously monitor project progress, track key performance indicators (KPIs), and ensure that the product is delivering the intended value to customers.

• Actively participate in retrospectives to identify areas for improvement within the development process and take actions to enhance team efficiency and effectiveness.

• Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices, leveraging this knowledge to identify opportunities for product enhancement and innovation.

• Manage stakeholder expectations, anticipating and addressing concerns, and ensuring a positive collaborative working environment.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience as a Software Product Owner supporting a software development environment.

• Experience using the SAFe framework or having a PO/PM SAFe certification

• Expert with translating high-level business requirements into clear and actionable user stories, ensuring that they contain well-defined acceptance criteria.

• Must have expert ability to document detailed requirements, minutes, action items, manage incoming requests and outgoing communications

• Expert ability to track, manage and resolve dependencies, blockers, issues, risks, clearly document and articulate action item owners and open items in need of attention

• Strong organization and facilitation skills, including the ability to prioritize work and drive out deadlines

• Must work well with internal and external team members, have ability to manage and resolve conflicts collaboratively and with patience

• Strong analytical skills and drive to take initiative, be proactive to collect details needed to address blockers, drive out issues for the team

• Detail-oriented self starter with ability to deliver high-quality software products and exceptional user experiences.

• Advanced experience in JIRA, Confluence, Release Management Tool

• Experience building dashboards and filtering / lookups in jira

• Excellent written oral/ communication and presentation skills

• Hands-on experience with managing large scale agile, technical projects and executive communications

• Able to work independently with limited supervision

• Experience working in Agile development process, Agile methodologies, and deep understanding of various phases of Software Development Life Cycle

Preferred Qualifications

• • Certification(s) related to Agile methodologies (e.g., Certified Scrum Product Owner) is a plus.

• • Previous experience in cyber security, specifically vulnerability management or application security testing is advantageous

• • Experience with Jira, .NET and python development is a strong asset.

• • Experience writing detailed technical requirements

Salary Range- $95,000-$120,000 a year

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Role: Product Owner

Desired skills: Project Management

Experience: 6 - 10 Years

Job function: TECHNOLOGY

Location: Chicago, IL

Salary range: $95,000–$120,000

Apply by: 2026-09-28 00:00:00