Product Owner Level II

Role Overview

System Automation is seeking a Product Owner Level II to join the Platform Team. You will translate business needs, platform capabilities, and customer problems into well-defined work for engineering teams, owning the product backlog and driving delivery of value in an Agile/Scrum environment.

Key Responsibilities

Backlog Ownership & Delivery Execution

• Own and manage the product backlog for assigned platform capabilities/components.
• Break down epics/features into clear, well-scoped user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Continuously groom, prioritize, and keep the backlog sprint-ready.
• Partner with engineering to clarify requirements, answer questions, and support implementation during sprints.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to recommend prioritization aligned to roadmap objectives.
• Evaluate tradeoffs between technical debt, feature work, and delivery commitments; balance short-term execution with long-term platform integrity.

Agile Team Collaboration

• Act as the primary product point of contact for the development team.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Support sprint/release goals by ensuring scope is well understood and dependencies are surfaced early.
• Assess and adapt processes using Agile/Scrum best practices.

Product & User Understanding

• Develop understanding of platform users, internal stakeholders, and downstream customer needs.
• Translate product direction into detailed requirements aligned with platform standards/architecture.
• Validate solutions through feedback loops with stakeholders and delivery teams.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Quality

• Align backlog priorities with product strategy and roadmap goals.
• Coordinate dependencies to ensure consistent platform behavior.
• Partner with QA and UX (and engineering) to ensure functional and quality expectations are met.
• Ensure delivered work meets acceptance criteria and intended outcomes.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of product ownership practices, templates, tooling, and documentation.

Required Qualifications

• 2–4 years experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or Requirements Analyst in a software development environment.
• Experience working directly with engineering teams in an Agile/Scrum setting.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical/business-related field (or equivalent experience).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SaaS, low-code, or platform-based products.
• Strong ability to write actionable user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Strong communication, collaboration, organization, and prioritization skills.
• Analytical mindset with understanding of data models, APIs, and workflows.

Remote Policy

Fully remote is available, but you must reside in the U.S. only.