Product Owner III

PNC • Pittsburgh, PA

4d • Onsite

About The Position

PNC is seeking a technical Product Owner III for its Technology organization, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The role leads an enterprise Developer Tools organization responsible for IDEs, plugins, extensions, developer platforms, and related tooling used across the software development lifecycle. The Product Owner leads a team of technologists and owns the strategy, roadmap, lifecycle management, support model, and continuous improvement of tools that help engineers build software efficiently and securely.

The role acts as the voice of the developer while balancing developer experience, enterprise standards, security, governance, and operational excellence. It drives tool evaluation, onboarding, upgrades, support, decommissioning, vendor management, and developer enablement, partnering with Engineering, Architecture, DevOps, Security, and Developer Experience teams.

The Product Owner owns the product vision and definition, conveys that vision to the team, and ensures Scrum Team efforts focus on priorities aligned with business value and client requirements. The role is accountable for creating and maintaining the integrity of the product backlog, prioritizing and leading backlog grooming, and working closely with Scrum Masters and development teams. It serves as the teams’ primary contact for questions and is empowered to make decisions.

Requirements

• Experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Engineering Manager, or in a similar technology leadership role.
• Experience leading technical teams and managing complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Software engineering or development background and a strong understanding of developer workflows.
• Ability to define product strategy, roadmaps, priorities, and measurable outcomes.
• Experience managing tool lifecycles, including onboarding, upgrades, patching, end-of-life, and decommissioning.
• Familiarity with software governance, open-source compliance, licensing, security, and risk management.
• Experience with Agile delivery practices and backlog management tools such as JIRA.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Data-driven mindset and experience using operational, adoption, and productivity metrics to guide decisions.
• University or college degree typically required, with 5 or more years of industry-relevant experience; a comparable combination of education, job-specific certifications, and experience may be considered instead of a degree.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with developer tools such as IntelliJ, VS Code, Visual Studio, PyCharm, GitHub, Docker, Postman, or similar platforms.
• Knowledge of developer experience (DX), internal developer platforms, self-service tooling, and platform engineering concepts.
• Passion for improving developer productivity, reducing friction, and delivering a world-class developer experience.
• Skills in accountability, customer solutions, data visualization, prioritization, Scrum, Agile Scrum, and user experience design.
• Competencies in Agile development, business acumen, design thinking, effective communications, innovation, interpersonal relationships, IT standards and policies, managing multiple priorities, organizational leadership, planning and organizing, and solutions development.

Responsibilities

• Lead the enterprise Developer Tools organization and a team of technologists.
• Own developer tools strategy, roadmap, lifecycle management, support model, and continuous improvement.
• Drive tool evaluation, onboarding, upgrades, support, decommissioning, vendor management, and developer enablement.
• Partner with Engineering, Architecture, DevOps, Security, and Developer Experience teams.
• Act as the voice of the developer while balancing developer experience, enterprise standards, security, governance, and operational excellence.
• Own and convey the product vision and definition to the team.
• Ensure Scrum Team efforts focus on the right priorities based on business value and client requirements.
• Create and maintain the integrity of the product backlog; prioritize it and lead backlog grooming.
• Work with Scrum Masters and development teams to ensure the right items are focused on during development.
• Serve as the teams’ primary point of contact for questions and make product decisions.

Benefits

• Medical and prescription drug coverage, with a Health Savings Account feature.
• Dental and vision options.
• Employee and spouse/child life insurance.
• Short- and long-term disability protection.
• 401(k) with PNC match.
• Pension and stock purchase plans.
• Dependent care reimbursement account.
• Back-up child and elder care.
• Adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement.
• Educational assistance, including select programs that are fully paid.
• Wellness program with financial incentives.
• Maternity and/or parental leave.
• Up to 11 paid holidays each year.
• 9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law.
• Between 15 and 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level and years of service.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level