Senior Product Owner, Tempus Technologies

PNC•Pittsburgh, PA

1d•Remote

About The Position

Tempus Technologies, founded in 1987, is a leader in secure payments, specializing in point-of-sale payment integration technology and software solutions. The company is committed to developing solutions that meet evolving customer business requirements and recognizes its employees as valuable assets, offering career advancement opportunities. This Senior Product Owner role, within Tempus Technologies (a subsidiary of PNC), is based remotely. The purpose of this role is to provide centralized strategy, coordination, and execution oversight across product and cross-functional teams, ensuring continuity and delivery for large, complex programs where existing product capacity is constrained.

Requirements

Strong experience as a Product Owner or Senior Product Manager on complex initiatives.
Demonstrated ability to manage large backlogs, dependencies, and cross team coordination.
Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments with multiple stakeholders.
Proven delivery mindset with a focus on outcomes, not just artifacts.
A university / college degree (Bachelor's).
5+ years of industry-relevant experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience serving as a lead or principal PO across multiple teams.
Background in scaling or stabilizing delivery in growing product organizations.
Familiarity with modern product delivery and agile practices.
Accountability
Customer Solutions
Data Visualization
Prioritization
Scrum
User Experience (UX) Design

Responsibilities

Act as Principal Product Owner for high complexity, multi workstream initiatives.
Drive alignment across stakeholders on priorities, scope, and outcomes.
Establish and reinforce execution discipline, including backlog clarity, planning rigor, and outcome tracking.
Improve visibility and transparency across initiatives for product leadership and partners.
Step in to stabilize programs where ownership is fragmented or execution risk is elevated.
Partner with Product, Engineering, Design, and Delivery to ensure high quality outputs and outcomes.
Owns the vision and definition of the product.
Serves as the voice of the Customer.
Ensures the Scrum Team(s) effort is concentrated on the right priorities based on business value.
Defines and conveys the vision to the team(s) in order to address client requirements to ensure a successful product for business objectives.
Accountable for the creation of and the integrity of the product backlog.
Prioritizes and leads grooming of the product backlog.
Works closely with the Scrum Master(s) and development team(s), to ensure the right items are focused on during the development process.
Primary point of contact for questions from the team(s) and is empowered to make decisions.
Customer Focused - Knowledgeable of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and able to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
Managing Risk - Assessing and effectively managing all of the risks associated with their business objectives and activities to ensure they adhere to and support PNC's Enterprise Risk Management Framework.

Benefits

Medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature)
Dental and vision options
Employee and spouse/child life insurance
Short and long-term disability protection
401(k) with PNC match
Pension and stock purchase plans
Dependent care reimbursement account
Back-up child/elder care
Adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement
Educational assistance, including select programs fully paid
Robust wellness program with financial incentives
Maternity and/or parental leave
Up to 11 paid holidays each year
9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law
Between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level; and years of service