Product Owner

ENFOS, Inc. • Durham, NC

2d • $120,000 - $140,000

About The Position

ENFOS is a profitable, 25-year-old enterprise SaaS company serving leading industrial organizations. Its platform helps finance, accounting, operations, and compliance teams manage Environmental Obligations in a centralized system designed for governance, audit readiness, and operational scale. ENFOS's platform supports the Environmental Obligation lifecycle and provides financial controls, audit defensibility, and cross-functional collaboration.

The Product Owner will drive the next phase of platform evolution by owning backlog execution and delivery for a defined product area. Working closely with Engineering, QA, UX, customers, and business stakeholders, this role translates ambiguous, high-stakes business problems into clear requirements, measurable outcomes, and scalable workflows. The position also contributes to product innovation and AI-enabled capabilities, while helping improve how ENFOS builds software internally.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, or in a similar role within enterprise B2B SaaS or complex business applications.
• Proven track record owning backlogs and delivering enterprise software with Engineering, QA, and UX teams.
• Strong Agile/Scrum expertise, including backlog management, refinement, acceptance criteria, and sprint execution.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into clear requirements and measurable outcomes.
• Strong analytical skills and comfort working with usage data, SQL, BI tools, and metrics-driven prioritization.
• Demonstrated AI-first mindset and experience using AI tools to accelerate product work.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills across technical and business audiences.
• Strong ownership mentality and bias for action.
• Comfort working directly with enterprise customers and stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Experience operating across multiple Scrum teams or coordinating shared dependencies in a platform environment.
• Experience in finance, accounting, ERP, GRC, audit, or other regulated enterprise SaaS domains.
• Experience shipping AI/ML-enabled features, including evaluation and human-in-the-loop design.

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritize the backlog for a defined product area to maximize customer value, risk reduction, and business outcomes.
• Translate product strategy into clear, executable work for Engineering and QA.
• Write user stories, acceptance criteria, and Definitions of Done.
• Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives, making scope and trade-off decisions.
• Use product usage data, customer feedback, support themes, and revenue impact to prioritize work.
• Document prioritization rationale and key product decisions.
• Partner with Engineering on solution design, sequencing, dependencies, and technical trade-offs.
• Partner with QA on test strategy, regression risk, edge cases, and release readiness.
• Partner with UX to simplify complex workflows and validate designs with customers.
• Lead story-level discovery, clarify requirements, and break large initiatives into shippable increments.
• Own release readiness, including release notes and internal enablement for Customer Success and Support.
• Help shape AI-enabled features, including assistants, anomaly detection, document intelligence, and intelligent automation.
• Define AI acceptance criteria and guardrails, including traceability, evaluation, and appropriate human oversight for audit-grade systems.
• Use AI tools to accelerate story writing, requirements analysis, customer feedback synthesis, and release communications.
• Stay current on relevant AI patterns, including LLMs, agents, retrieval, and evaluation frameworks.
• Instrument delivered capabilities, define success metrics upfront, and measure post-release outcomes.
• Engage customers through interviews, usability sessions, and in-app communications.
• Partner with Customer Success, Support, Onboarding, and Sales to validate priorities and turn feedback into product improvements.
• Collaborate with Finance, Accounting, Operations, and subject-matter experts to ensure regulatory and audit alignment.
• Communicate priorities, progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly to stakeholders.

Benefits

• Annual discretionary bonus opportunity.
• Stock options granted at the time of hire and periodically based on performance.
• Comprehensive benefits packages.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed