IT Product Owner-Merchandise Systems

Casey's•Ankeny, IA

5h•$91,600 - $120,200•Onsite

About The Position

The IT Product Owner is dedicated to the systems and workflows that define, maintain, and govern Casey’s merchandising data, including item setup and attributes, pricing and promotions, planograms and assortment, compliance restrictions, and recipe master data. The role partners with a Product Manager who owns the broader merchandising data strategy and is accountable for backlog health, stakeholder alignment, and data quality across downstream merchandising systems. The Product Owner owns item setup and maintenance workflows; supports pricing, promotional event, and markdown systems; and partners with Merchandisers and Buyers on assortment and planogram tools. The role also manages day-to-day relationships with third-party vendors, maintains backlog and sprint discipline, aligns business stakeholders, and coordinates launch readiness through pre-release reviews, data validation, and defect triage. The position works with other product owners to support consistent execution across agile delivery teams and performs other duties as assigned. This is an onsite role at Casey’s Store Support Center in Ankeny, Iowa. Qualified candidates must live within daily commuting distance and work onsite five days per week. The position is eligible for an annual cash bonus based on company performance. Starting pay is $91,600–$120,200; actual pay may vary based on candidate qualifications, experience, education, local prevailing wages, and internal equity.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work-related experience.
At least five years of direct product ownership experience.
Authorization to work in the United States without current or future employment-based immigration sponsorship.
Experience with collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Smartsheet.
Experience writing and managing product backlog stories and supporting scrum team delivery.
Familiarity with SAFe or scrum cadence.
Ability to partner with business stakeholders, communicate status to executives, facilitate business-readiness meetings, and translate between business goals and engineering realities.
Experience working alongside engineers on a retail or food service data platform, such as Oracle Retail, a PIM/MDM, or a recipe management system.
Understanding of how item attributes, pricing rules, assortment data, recipe formulations, and compliance restrictions flow through downstream systems.
Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills, including presentation and facilitation.
Detail-oriented and organized, with the ability to manage multiple complex tasks simultaneously.
Guest-focused, team-oriented, collaborative, open to new ideas, and capable of both planning and tactical execution.
Must live within daily commuting distance of Casey’s Store Support Center in Ankeny, Iowa, and be willing to work onsite five days per week.

Nice To Haves

Certification in Scrum Product Ownership.
Experience with promotional pricing, planogram tooling, allergen compliance, or regulatory labeling in a retail or food service environment.

Responsibilities

Own item setup and maintenance workflows, including new item creation, attribute population, vendor-item relationships, pack hierarchy, and lifecycle management.
Support systems for retail pricing, promotional events, and markdown execution, ensuring changes reach stores accurately and on time.
Partner with Merchandisers and Buyers on assortment and planogram tools and workflows, including location-specific assortments and keeping planogram data current.
Manage day-to-day relationships with third-party vendors and hold their roadmaps, contracts, and bug queues accountable to business needs.
Maintain backlog and sprint health through story decomposition, acceptance criteria, definition of done, and sprint hygiene.
Coordinate intake, alignment, and status communications with Buyers, Planners, Merchandisers, and Finance; conduct release-readiness discussions.
Coordinate pre-release reviews, data validation signoffs, and defect triage for item launches, promotions, planogram resets, and recipe changes.
Work with other product owners to support consistent execution and responsibilities within agile delivery teams.
Perform other duties as assigned.