Product Owner

Product Owner

Remote - work virtually from anywhere in the United States

• →Own backlog prioritization and work readiness for an assigned software delivery team.
• →Collaborate with users, stakeholders, and others to understand business needs and desired outcomes.
• →Translate business problems into actionable product work.
• →Evaluate competing priorities, risks, dependencies, and delivery constraints.
• →Ensure delivered work aligns with product goals and user needs.

• Facilitate discovery sessions with stakeholders, users, and subject-matter experts.
• Create workflows, user stories, business rules, acceptance criteria, and supporting requirements.
• Identify assumptions, dependencies, risks, and edge cases early.
• Help the team understand the problem before committing to a solution.
• Validate proposed solutions against intended outcomes.

• 3+ years of experience in product ownership, business analysis, Agile delivery, software product development, solution delivery, or a related discipline.
• Experience supporting software development teams in a Product Owner, Business Analyst, Scrum Master, Product Management, or comparable role.
• Experience creating user stories, acceptance criteria, workflows, requirements, and backlog-ready work.
• Working knowledge of Agile and Scrum delivery practices.
• Ability to facilitate discussions involving competing priorities and stakeholder needs.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across technical and business teams.
• Experience balancing user value, quality, feasibility, delivery risk, and business priorities.
• Product Owner, Scrum, Agile, Business Analysis, or related certifications.
• Experience with enterprise software, internal business applications, workflow tools, AI-enabled platforms, data-intensive applications, or digital-transformation initiatives.
• Experience collaborating with Design, Engineering, QA, Project Management, and customer-facing teams.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Microsoft 365, Jira, or comparable delivery-management platforms.

• Up to 5%, this may include travel to any or all 50 US states
• Travel is defined as physically leaving home on behalf of business activities including but not limited to client sites, meetings with other employees, meeting for business development purposes, running errands on behalf of the business, attending industry conferences, etc.

• 3-5 years of relevant professional experience in product ownership, business analysis, Agile delivery, software product development, solution delivery, or a related discipline.
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Product Management, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Design, or a related field preferred; equivalent practical experience will be considered.

• Facilitate Agile team ceremonies and maintain a healthy delivery process.
• Help the team remove blockers and resolve delivery issues.
• Promote continuous improvement through retrospectives and delivery feedback.
• Maintain visibility into team priorities, commitments, dependencies, and risks.
• Improve predictability, transparency, and team effectiveness.

• Partner with Product Design, QA, Engineering, Client Success, Product Adoption & Training, and Project Management.
• Align stakeholders around product decisions and delivery priorities.
• Coordinate dependencies affecting delivery outcomes.
• Ensure handoffs remain clear and product intent remains consistent throughout implementation.

• Participate in release-readiness activities.
• Validate delivered functionality against approved requirements and intended workflows.
• Gather feedback after release and incorporate learning into future priorities.
• Help ensure completed work achieves meaningful user and business outcomes.

• Take on increasingly complex initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, workflows, integrations, and business processes.
• Develop stronger prioritization, facilitation, discovery, and delivery-leadership skills.
• Build readiness for future advancement into Senior Product Owner, Product Management, or Solution Delivery leadership opportunities as ai2io continues to grow.

• Teams consistently receive clear, actionable, prioritized, and testable work.
• Product decisions reflect user needs, business outcomes, technical realities, and informed tradeoffs.
• Agile ceremonies produce alignment, decisions, learning, and improvement rather than administrative overhead.
• Risks, blockers, and dependencies are surfaced early and addressed proactively.
• Stakeholders understand priorities, decisions, constraints, and delivery expectations.
• Cross-functional teams trust the Product Owner as a reliable partner.
• Delivered solutions achieve intended user and business outcomes.

• Own meaningful product and delivery decisions.
• Work closely with talented engineering, design, and delivery professionals.
• Influence how modern business applications are developed and delivered.
• Build skills that prepare you for senior product and leadership opportunities.
• Join a collaborative Microsoft-centric technology organization focused on solving real business problems.

AI2IO does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to AI2IO in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where AI2IO has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of AI2IO and AI2IO will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.