Senior Product Owner

Marathon Petroleum Corporation•Findlay, OH

20h•Onsite

About The Position

The Process Optimization & Quality Product Owner at MPC works closely with business analysts, developers, product managers, optimization engineers, laboratory chemists, third-party integrators, and other stakeholders to drive best-in-class optimization and quality performance across MPC’s refining locations. This role manages the lifecycle of internally developed and commercial software, including tooling, definition, design, planning, development, prototyping, and testing. The Product Owner acts as a liaison between IT and business leaders to develop a product roadmap, applying design thinking techniques such as user stories and prototyping to define product features. They maintain the Process Optimization & Quality team’s backlog and direct work to ensure a robust, sustainable, and supported portfolio of applications across the enterprise. The individual will also work with internal and external partners to select and customize technology products and/or services. Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC) is a leading, integrated, downstream energy company headquartered in Findlay, Ohio. The company operates the nation's largest refining system. MPC's marketing system includes branded locations across the United States, including Marathon brand retail outlets. MPC also owns the general partner and majority limited partner interest in MPLX LP, a midstream company that owns and operates gathering, processing, and fractionation assets, as well as crude oil and light product transportation and logistics infrastructure.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, related field or equivalent work experience.
5+ years of relevant product owner experience.
Agile Methodology
Authentic Communicator
Backlog Management
Business Acumen
Decision Making
Industry Product Knowledge
Product Development
Product Lifecycle Management
User Experience (UX)

Nice To Haves

Product Owner certification preferred.
Previous experience supporting Thermo Fisher Sample Manager preferred.

Responsibilities

Builds customer and internal-facing products with superior user experience across multiple verticals, accountable for an established or moderate complexity product.
Ensures alignment between teams to prioritize product roadmaps, plan releases, and align them with business objectives.
Collaborates with Agile teams, stakeholders, and business representatives to address and resolve issues that arise during product development.
Works collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including R&D, UX, and business and operations teams, to align product strategies, gather insights, and plan releases.
Identifies product-related issues, makes decisions, and continuously does trade-off analyses to ensure development stays on track toward deliverable commitments.
Prioritizes the short-term feature backlog and releases, as well as the long-term product roadmap for products.
Conducts customer research, and product discovery and synthesizes market factors into a cohesive product strategy.
Collaborates with customers to understand challenges & opportunities.
Collects quantitative data and takes a data-driven approach to evaluate the viability of product initiatives.
Writes epics and stories to support completion of initiatives; ensures stories clearly communicate the customer and stakeholder needs to meet key business objectives and strategies for the product; promotes Agile approaches to product development across teams/areas.