Product Owner - Pricing

UL Solutions•Northbrook, IL

22h•Hybrid

About The Position

This role is hybrid, 3 days a week in office to the Northbrook or Chicago, IL UL Solutions office. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape how pricing decisions are made across UL Solutions. As the Product Owner, you will own the enhancement of UL Solutions' pricing engine, a critical platform that enables scalable, data-driven pricing decisions across the enterprise. This role exists to define, govern, and continuously evolve the pricing engine, acting as the single accountable owner for the platform, its roadmap, and the pricing rules, data, and capabilities that support commercial teams globally. You will directly influence how pricing is executed at scale, with measurable impact on revenue growth, margin performance, pricing consistency, operational efficiency, and the adoption of value-based pricing practices across the organization.

Requirements

Facilitation skills – ability to lead small to medium groups of internal stakeholders towards desired outcomes in order to meet business objectives
Strong communication and presentation (PowerPoint) skills
Product management tools – product design (e.g. Invision, Zeplin), development task management (e.g. Jira, Azure DevOps), documentation and knowledge (e.g. Confluence, SharePoint), collaboration (e.g. Microsoft Teams, Slack), roadmap and portfolio management (e.g. Aha!, Daptiv)
University Degree (Equivalent to Bachelor's degree) in Computer Science, Business, or a related discipline
5 years or more of related discipline experience or demonstrated competency

Nice To Haves

Scrum/Agile training and/or certification is highly preferred
Formal training and/or certification in Product Management is a plus
Working with remote teams is highly preferred

Responsibilities

Guide the development team by defining the vision, value and context of “why” behind product capabilities/features and help to plan “how” to best deliver them
Work closely with the Pricing Director and software engineering, following Agile principles, to help define requirements/user stories, incorporate feature requests, estimate development effort and prioritize/groom backlog items
Collaborate with the Pricing Director on roadmap management and release planning.
Work with UI/UX/Designers to generate wireframes and prototypes to support user stories and product demonstrations
Facilitate sprint planning and work alongside the Scrum Master to ensure that commitments are met and any re-prioritization decisions are fully informed
Support the development team throughout the development cycle by elaborating user stories and advising on priorities.
Keep track of industry best practices and continuously suggest process efficiencies for the development team.
Organize the end-of-sprint demos to communicate to internal stakeholders the output of each sprint.
Validate whether features have been completed and decide when they will be released
Support development of the technical product collateral, such as release notes and online help content
Support an efficient cross-functional matrix structure to enable effective product development lifecycle
Execute a robust set of processes, focused on product development, release management and product support
Leverage a standard set of product management and software development tools