Product Owner

Activated Insights•Tampa, FL

16d•Remote

About The Position

Under the direction of the Director, Product Management, the Product Owner is the product operations backbone of the portfolio. Each Product Owner is responsible for one or more product areas, applications, or strategic initiatives as assigned, and responsibilities may evolve as business priorities change. The Product Owner triages escalations from Customer Operations, drives break/fix escalations to Engineering, manages enhancement PRDs and roadmap scheduling for their assigned products, and runs the agile ceremonies that deliver the roadmap. The Product Owner develops deep expertise in their assigned products and serves as a trusted resource for Sales, Marketing, Customer Operations, and Engineering, maintaining the knowledge base that supports product knowledge questions. This role aligns with the Pragmatic Product Management framework: the Product Owner focuses on tactical execution, backlog ownership, operational triage, and delivery, while portfolio strategy, positioning, and cross-product priority decisions remain with the Director, Product Management. The Product Owner decides sequence within their epics; the Director decides across epics and products.

Requirements

Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with a structured approach to reproducing and isolating issues.
Excellent written and verbal communication, especially translating between customer-facing teams and Engineering.
Disciplined backlog and ceremony management; comfort running scrums and sprint planning without supervision.
High attention to detail in acceptance criteria, UAT, and release validation.
Ability to build and maintain clear documentation that non-technical teams rely on.
2+ years as a Product Owner, in product operations, or in escalated application support, ideally in B2B SaaS.
Demonstrated experience writing user stories, managing a backlog, and collaborating with Engineering through agile ceremonies (e.g., Jira, Trello, ClickUp).

Nice To Haves

Pragmatic Product Owner certification or equivalent training preferred.
Exposure to healthcare, SaaS, or regulated environments is a plus.
Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, or a related field preferred, or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

Triage escalations from Customer Operations for assigned products: reproduce the issue, validate severity, and determine whether the path is break/fix, configuration, education, or enhancement.
Make break/fix escalations to Engineering with clear reproduction steps, severity, customer impact, and business context; track escalations to resolution and communicate status back to Customer Operations.
Monitor recurring issue patterns and convert them into backlog items, knowledge base articles, or process fixes.
Own and maintain the product backlog for assigned products, including user stories, acceptance criteria, and sprint-level prioritization.
Run sprint planning, scrums, grooming, and review ceremonies with Engineering squads; clarify requirements in real time.
Validate delivered increments against acceptance criteria before release; run UAT and coordinate release mechanics.
Keep roadmap and status data accurate in the systems of record, including epic status and OKR check-ins for assigned products.
Author enhancement PRDs for assigned products for Director approval; size and sequence enhancements with Engineering.
Schedule approved work into the roadmap; communicate slips early with cause and revised dates.
Develop deep expertise in assigned products: how they work, how they are configured, and how customers use them.
Author and maintain knowledge base articles for each assigned product.
Answer product knowledge questions from Sales, Marketing, and Customer Operations; support demos, security questionnaires, and customer-facing documentation with accurate product detail.
Provide limited sales engineering assistance on qualified opportunities: technical discovery, demo support, and solution validation for deals meeting the size threshold set by Product leadership.
Produce release notes and internal release communication for assigned products.
Hand completed releases to the Director, Product Market Management for the GTM phase; a release is delivery-complete only when the GTM handoff is clean.