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Role Description

The Product Owner plays a critical role within the HR & Incentive Compensation team, owning the agile product delivery process from intake through execution. This role is responsible for translating enterprise and business objectives into clear, prioritized features and backlog items that development teams can deliver effectively.

• Owns and evolves the product vision in partnership with business stakeholders, ensuring the right product capabilities are defined and delivered to meet enterprise and domain needs.
• Clearly communicates product vision, priorities, and context to delivery teams; works closely with the team on a daily basis to answer questions and review and approve user stories.
• Builds and maintains strong working relationships with business partners, stakeholders, peers, and development teams; influences direction and fosters a collaborative, outcome-focused team environment.
• Manages changing priorities and escalations by balancing business needs, technical constraints, and delivery capacity; adjusts team backlog and sequencing as necessary.
• Partners with stakeholders to understand how assigned products support business objectives and translates those objectives into prioritized product capabilities and backlog items.
• Identifies and drives process improvements, automation opportunities, and service enhancements to improve product delivery, quality, and operational efficiency.
• Participates in third-party vendor relationships related to assigned products, including license oversight, contract inputs, and coordination with procurement and legal partners as needed.
• Develops and maintains a deep understanding of the product user base and ecosystem, including upstream and downstream system dependencies, to inform product decisions and stakeholder discussions.
• Leads backlog prioritization by negotiating trade-offs with stakeholders and delivery teams to maximize business value and delivery outcomes.
• Collaborates with other Product Owners to identify, manage, and prioritize cross-team dependencies and shared initiatives.
• Authors, refines, and maintains clear, actionable user stories and acceptance criteria in partnership with the delivery team.
• Ensures delivery teams have sufficient business context, requirements clarity, and acceptance criteria to execute effectively.
• Stays informed of relevant industry trends, vendor capabilities, and competitive practices to inform product strategy and recommendations.
• Develops, maintains, and communicates product roadmaps (short- and long-term) to stakeholders and delivery teams, aligning priorities with business outcomes and architectural direction.
• Ensures regular product demos and reviews are conducted with stakeholders to validate delivered functionality and gather feedback.
• Serves as a confident communicator who can clearly explain technical concepts and product decisions to non-technical audiences.
• Applies strong understanding of business rules and logic to support high-quality story development and product outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent work experience)
• A minimum of 5 years' progressive experience in a related field required
• 3+ years’ experience as a member of an agile software development team.
• 3+ years’ experience working as a Product Owner or Product Manager.
• 3+ years’ experience working directly with business stakeholders.

Requirements

• Experience working with driving the value of a product in support of Human Resources or Compensation Planning processes.
• Experience as a Business Analyst or Product Owner/Manager.
• Exposure to Product Management responsibilities.
• Experience collaborating with other Product Owners and teams to prioritize and align dependencies.
• Practical experience creating and communicating product visions.
• Proven ability to translate a product vision into an action.
• Proven ability to oversee product implementation.
• Demonstrates techniques for quickly and effectively understanding business partner’s needs.
• Demonstrates experience in helping stakeholders identify business value/objectives and uses this to prioritize work.
• Demonstrates ability to effectively negotiate between competing stakeholders to ensure the highest value objectives are met.
• Demonstrates knowledge of product analytics by creating and using delivery metrics, predictability, and forecasting; given appropriate data, can create (and draw conclusions from) a forecast and communicate that information to stakeholders with progress updates and metrics.
• Proficient at researching, analyzing, and identifying requirements.
• Demonstrates ability to clearly identify and explain what business value is.
• Proficient at breaking down and organizing requirements and the relationship between business goals, product vision, and Epics/Capabilities/Features/Stories; must be clearly visible and aligned.

Travel Requirements

• Up to 5% of the time Domestic and International Travel

Salary Range

A reasonable estimate of the current base pay range for this position is $100,000.00 to $130,000.00 annually. Actual salary will be based on a variety of factors, including shift, location, experience, skill set, performance, licensure and certification, and business needs. The range for this position in other geographic locations may differ. Certain positions may also be eligible for variable incentive compensation, such as bonuses or commissions, that is not included in the base pay.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Minorities/Women/Veterans/Individuals with disabilities