Disaster Recovery Product Owner

Eaton Corporation•Coraopolis, PA

1d•$113,000 - $165,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Eaton’s Corporate Sector division is currently seeking a Disaster Recovery Product Owner. This is a Hybrid-Remote role and can be based out of our location in Beachwood,OH or Pittsburgh, PA. Relocation benefits are available from within the United States! The expected annual salary range for this role is $113000 - $165000 a year. Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations. This position is responsible for increasing the Enterprise Disaster Recovery maturity by creating, prioritizing, and managing the product backlog. The Product Owner will own Disaster Recovery for Infrastructure Services as an enterprise product capability across Eaton’s hybrid cloud, on prem, and SaaS environments, in accordance with policy and governance defined by Cyber Security. This role is accountable for defining the DR product strategy and roadmap, translating business resilience requirements into prioritized product outcomes, planning and executing DR tests across the enterprise, and ensuring DR capabilities (architecture, tooling, testing, data, and remediation) deliver measurable value to the enterprise. The Product Owner partners closely with DR Policy and Governance, Architecture, Delivery, and product teams to evolve a scalable, testable, and auditable DR capability aligned with Eaton’s resilience, risk, and regulatory objectives.

Requirements

Bachelors degree from an accredited institution
5+ years of experience in product ownership, product management, or program leadership within enterprise IT.
1+ year of experience directly supporting disaster recovery, resilience, business continuity, or large-scale infrastructure/cloud platforms.
Candidate must be a United States Citizen
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship now and within the future
Demonstrable understanding of product management and modern product delivery processes.
General understanding of DevSecOps principles.
General familiarity with modern software development principles, including code management, test automation, APIs, microservices, and cloud services.
Experience with Agile development and use of Jira.
Understanding of disaster recovery concepts, including RTO/RPO, tiering, runbooks, dependency mapping, failover/failback, hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, and enterprise platforms.
Proven ability to own a complex product across multiple teams without direct authority and drive alignment across architecture, delivery, testing, and operations.
Strong written and verbal communication skills are vital for this role.
Excellent executive communication skills, with comfort presenting roadmaps, trade-offs, and risk posture.
Familiarity with design thinking methodologies.
Ability to create and manage product roadmaps.
Clear understanding of lean principles with respect to product and portfolio management.
Comfortable working directly with business leaders, cyber partners, and customer product teams.
Experience working with diverse global cultures, organizations, and teams.

Responsibilities

Own the enterprise DR product vision and strategy spanning on prem, hybrid, and multi cloud environments.
Partner with Cyber to define what “good” looks like for DR maturity at Eaton by tier, platform, and business criticality.
Translate business continuity, risk, regulatory, and executive resilience requirements into clear DR product outcomes.
Maintain the long term DR product roadmap, balancing foundational capability, risk reduction, automation, and innovation.
Develops and maintains product-specific persona and customer journeys
Support establishment of product processes (e.g., release schedule) and support process improvement activities across product processes (Lean, Agile, Scrum, DevSecOps, etc.)
Own and prioritize the enterprise product backlog, decomposing work into epics and user stories
DR capabilities and features (runbooks, automation, tooling, metrics
Resiliancy Management Platform (data integrations, reporting capabilities, feature functionality)
Testing and assurance capabilities
Test coordination, data collection, reporting, evidence requirements, and after-action reports
Make tradeoff decisions between speed, scope, risk reduction, and technical debt
Ensure backlog alignment with DR Program execution plans and remediation demands
Act as the single accountable product owner across Cyber Security, DR Architecture and Delivery, DR Tooling & Data, DR Testing & Assurance, and DR Projects and remeidation work
Partner with application, infrastructure, cloud, security, and BCM leaders to ensure DR requirements are embedded early in designs, align recovery strategies with platform capabilities, and standardize expectations across lines of business
Serve as the escalation point for priority conflicts impacting enterprise recoverability
Provide oversight and direction to team managing the technical and operational functions within DR
Support the onboarding of internal and external resources
Champion standardization and reuse through reference architectures, templates, and automation patterns.
Influence adoption of automation-first and “testability by design” principles.
Drive continuous feedback loops from tests, incidents, and audits into backlog refinement.
Evaluate emerging technologies and approaches (e.g., advanced orchestration, chaos testing, continuous verification) for product fit.