Product Owner (Business Intelligence) - Fully Remote

MRIoA•Salt Lake City, UT

14h•Remote

About The Position

The Product Owner - BI is a critical function within the IT Department, bridging the gap between executive strategy and technical execution. This role is responsible for ensuring that Business Intelligence initiatives are directly aligned with the company’s Value Framework Objectives (VFOs). This individual will manage the lifecycle of automation and data projects—from initial requirements gathering to final delivery—ensuring high visibility for leadership and clear direction for development teams.

Requirements

At least 2 years of experience as a Product Owner.
Experience with BI tools (Power BI, Tableau)
Experience with offshore or distributed teams
Experience designing BI dashboard layouts
Experience translating complex business KPIs into visual data narratives
Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Information Technology, or a related field

Nice To Haves

CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner) or PMP certification (preferred).

Responsibilities

Strategic Alignment: Partner with leadership to prioritize the project backlog based on VFOs, ROI, and organizational timelines.
Operational Execution: Act as the central hub for the BI team, managing work intake, developer assignments, and delivery schedules.
Requirements Advocacy: Translate complex business needs into detailed technical specifications that developers can execute with minimal ambiguity.
Business Insights Guidance: Work directly with the business to identify key performance drivers and recommend the best ways to visualize data for clear decision-making.
Leadership Reporting & Visibility: Provide weekly status updates on VFO-aligned projects to applicable leadership and stakeholders. Communicate project health, risks, and milestones to ensure transparency across the leadership team.
Agile Workflow Management: Own the Kanban/Jira board, ensuring all tasks are accurately documented, assigned, and moving through the development lifecycle. Maintain a clean and prioritized backlog, ensuring developers are always working on the highest-value tasks.
Scoping & Requirement Gathering: Lead discovery sessions for new BI dashboards and workflows to define functional and technical requirements. Document "as-is" and "to-be" processes to ensure automation projects deliver the intended efficiency gains. Help the business to refine vague requests into specific data requirements, ensuring the final dashboards solve their operational problems.
Development Coordination: Collaborate daily with BI developers to estimate build timelines and manage resource capacity. Assist in managing off-shore development teams, providing clear tasking and ensuring accountability for assigned deliverables.
Strategic Prioritization: Analyze incoming project requests against VFOs and current timelines to provide data-driven recommendations on prioritization and schedules.