Product Owner (Pricing)
About The Position
The Product Owner translates established product vision and roadmap priorities into clear, actionable requirements and delivery-ready work for assigned products, services, or business capabilities. The role facilitates requirements development, maintains backlog readiness, supports cross-functional delivery, and aligns business needs, customer expectations, technical considerations, testing, and product-governance requirements. The Product Owner monitors delivery progress, supports release readiness, and promotes quality and continuous improvement throughout the product-development lifecycle. This position executes product roadmaps by translating priorities and business objectives into features, requirements, user stories, and delivery outcomes. It partners with Product Managers, stakeholders, subject-matter experts, and delivery teams to clarify scope and value, refine and prioritize backlogs, define acceptance criteria, assess feasibility and dependencies, and keep delivery plans aligned with changing business and customer needs. The role leads requirements discussions and maintains functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, use cases, process flows, acceptance criteria, and related documentation. It facilitates alignment among business, technology, user-experience, and testing partners; monitors delivery progress, risks, dependencies, measures, and quality trends; maintains traceability across the product lifecycle; and coordinates applicable release-readiness activities. Product artifacts and practices must meet applicable documentation, governance, risk, control, and quality standards. The position is described as hybrid and is located in Columbia, South Carolina.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, information technology, information systems, finance, or a related field.
- 1–3 years of experience in product development, product ownership, business analysis, requirements development, technology delivery, or a related discipline.
- Certified Product Owner.
- Knowledge of product-development, product-ownership, requirements-development, backlog-management, and iterative-delivery practices.
- Ability to translate business and customer needs into clear requirements, user stories, process documentation, acceptance criteria, and delivery-ready work.
- Analytical thinking, problem-solving, attention to detail, and ability to identify dependencies, risks, gaps, and improvement opportunities.
- Stakeholder communication, facilitation, collaboration, and ability to bridge business and technical perspectives across partner teams.
- Knowledge of testing and validation, requirements traceability, release readiness, product governance, delivery measures, and continuous-improvement practices.
- Foundational knowledge of data analysis and query concepts.
Responsibilities
- Translate established product vision, roadmap priorities, and business objectives into product features, requirements, user stories, and delivery outcomes.
- Partner with Product Managers, Product Owners, stakeholders, and subject-matter experts to clarify priorities, scope, expected value, and customer needs.
- Refine and prioritize the backlog, define acceptance criteria, identify dependencies, and ensure work is understood and prepared for delivery.
- Work with delivery teams and technical stakeholders to evaluate feasibility, capacity, dependencies, risks, and constraints and recommend delivery-plan adjustments.
- Maintain alignment among roadmap priorities, backlog commitments, delivery timelines, and evolving business or customer needs.
- Lead requirements discussions and gather, analyze, clarify, and document detailed business and product needs.
- Develop and maintain functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, use cases, process flows, acceptance criteria, and supporting documentation.
- Facilitate communication among business, technology, user-experience, testing, and other stakeholders to align on requirements, priorities, and outcomes.
- Partner with technical and user-experience stakeholders to confirm proposed solutions are feasible, usable, aligned with business objectives, and responsive to customer needs.
- Coordinate with testing partners to validate acceptance criteria and test coverage and confirm delivered functionality aligns with documented requirements and business intent.
- Participate in product planning, backlog refinement, delivery reviews, and other team activities to clarify requirements and maintain alignment.
- Monitor delivery progress, dependencies, risks, delivery measures, and quality trends; identify issues and recommend improvements to planning and execution.
- Maintain traceability among business needs, requirements, development work, acceptance criteria, testing, decisions, and delivered functionality.
- Support release readiness by coordinating requirements, testing, documentation, stakeholder communication, implementation activities, and other applicable readiness expectations.
- Ensure product artifacts and delivery practices align with applicable documentation, governance, risk, control, and quality standards.
- Use feedback and delivery results to support continuous improvement.
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
