Product Owner II

TrueComp

12h•$105,000 - $125,000

About The Position

TrueComp is a growth-stage govtech SaaS company expanding its product organization across its workforce analytics suite, including TrueComp Intelligence and Labor Costing. The Product Owner II is a mid-level, hands-on role working across the product suite, partnering with onshore and India-based engineering teams, and reporting directly to the Chief Product Officer. This is an AI-forward product role. Using Claude and Claude Design throughout the product lifecycle, the Product Owner takes product vision from concept to delivery by building AI-assisted prototypes and UI/UX designs, writing PRDs, creating epics and user stories, and managing backlogs and agile teams through release. The role calls for strong product judgment, fluency with AI-assisted product work, and disciplined agile execution. The Product Owner engages government customers and internal stakeholders to understand needs and validate solutions; owns backlog refinement and day-to-day product decisions; facilitates agile ceremonies; coordinates testing and releases; tracks initiatives and roadmaps; defines and reviews success metrics; and contributes to product strategy. The role also includes developing repeatable AI workflows, reviewing AI-generated work for accuracy, accessibility, and security, protecting customer and agency data, and collaborating across time zones with engineering teams in India. First-year expectations include building relationships and learning the product suite and workflows in the first 30 days; taking backlog ownership, leading agile ceremonies, and delivering a PRD with a Claude Design prototype through production within 60 days; running the full prototype-to-release cycle with minimal supervision and contributing to roadmap planning within 90 days; and owning delivery outcomes and supporting AI-enabled product practices during the first year.

Requirements

Three to five years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or in a comparable role in an agile software development environment, with a record of independently owning a backlog and delivering outcomes.
Hands-on use of AI tools such as Claude across the product lifecycle, including prototyping, design, PRD authoring, and user story creation; candidates should be prepared to discuss specific examples and results during interviews.
Experience taking an idea from concept through PRD to a refined, sprint-ready backlog.
Proficiency with Jira for story writing and backlog management, and experience with comparable roadmap and project management tools.
Ability to decompose ambiguous business problems into clearly scoped, deliverable increments of work.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex requirements to technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience collaborating with engineering teams across the full software development lifecycle.
Flexibility to work with offshore teams in India, including meetings outside standard U.S. business hours.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with offshore development teams, ideally teams collocated in a single location such as India.
Government technology experience, including familiarity with public sector customers.
Experience in B2B SaaS, particularly at a high-growth organization.
Domain experience in human resources technology, compensation, workforce planning, budgeting, or data and analytics products.
Working knowledge of UX principles and design systems.
Experience with product analytics tools such as Pendo.
Experience with Aha! and Asana.

Responsibilities

Translate product vision and customer needs into interactive prototypes and UI/UX concepts using Claude Design, validating direction with customers and stakeholders before engineering work begins.
Author clear and complete PRDs, using Claude to assist with drafting, analysis, and edge-case discovery while ensuring the final work is accurate and high quality.
Engage government customers and internal stakeholders, including Customer Success, Sales, and Services, to gather requirements, test solutions, and keep customer needs central to product decisions.
Break PRDs into epics and user stories with clear, testable acceptance criteria, and maintain prioritized, refined Jira backlogs across supported products.
Serve as the day-to-day product decision-maker for assigned teams by answering questions, clarifying scope, and accepting or rejecting work against acceptance criteria and the Definition of Done.
Facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives; manage daily stand-ups and asynchronous communication in partnership with engineering leadership.
Coordinate user acceptance testing, release readiness, and release communications with Engineering, QA, Support, and Customer Success.
Track initiative status and cross-functional work in Asana, and keep roadmap items, ideas, and priorities current in Aha!.
Communicate sprint priorities, release goals, and roadmap commitments to organizational stakeholders.
Define success metrics for delivered features, review product usage data after release, and use results to refine priorities.
Contribute to product vision, strategy, and roadmap in coordination with the Chief Product Officer and Product Management.
Build and share repeatable AI workflows, including prompts, templates, and reusable patterns, to improve product team speed and consistency.
Review AI-generated work for accuracy, accessibility, and security, and protect customer and agency data when using AI tools.
Work effectively with engineering teams in India through regular overlap hours, clear written requirements, and proactive cross-time-zone communication.
Meet first-year onboarding, backlog ownership, agile leadership, delivery, velocity and predictability, roadmap contribution, and product-area ownership expectations described in the posting.