Intermediate Product Owner

The Provoke Experience

We are committed to building high-performing, diverse teams. We provide tangible rewards for effort, with purposeful in-person collaboration and learning opportunities to fast-track your career. We focus on diversity in race, gender, orientation, and experience, because we know diversity fuels innovation.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Product Owner with 2-3+ years of experience to help shape, manage, and deliver custom software development products with teams of humans using Gen AI at every step of the software development lifecycle. This is a client-facing, hands-on role that combines agile product ownership with delivery execution. You'll collaborate closely with designers, engineers, and client stakeholders to define and prioritize work that drives measurable business outcomes.

Please note: Must be willing to travel to our client sites as needed.

Key Responsibilities

Backlog & Product Execution

* Collaborate with clients and delivery teams to define and maintain a well-prioritized product backlog
* Write, refine, and manage user stories, epics, and acceptance criteria that are clear and actionable
* Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, and review sessions
* Ensure team members understand business context and goals behind features and user stories
* Validate features post-development and support release coordination activities

Delivery Collaboration

* Lead effective meetings through preparation, facilitation of productive discussions, and driving to clear outcomes and action items
* Participate in delivery planning and sprint execution with cross-functional teams
* Help manage delivery timelines, team coordination, and status reporting
* Raise delivery risks, blockers, and scope issues as they arise
* Partner with tech leads and designers to ensure product feasibility and alignment
* Track delivery KPIs (velocity, sprint completion, etc.) and contribute to retrospectives

Stakeholder Engagement

* Act as the voice of the customer and ensure stakeholder needs are well-represented in the backlog
* Support client demos, working sessions, and alignment meetings
* Help facilitate decision-making around priorities, MVP scope, and delivery tradeoffs

Qualifications

* 2-3+ years of experience in product ownership, product management, or related delivery roles for custom software development
* Currently embracing and leveraging Gen AI professionally or personally
* Proven ability to define and prioritize backlogs for digital or software products
* Hands-on experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe)
* Comfortable working with tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar
* Strong written and verbal communication skills with a client-facing mindset
* Consulting or professional services experience is a plus
* Experience in CMS platforms, workflow automation, or customer-facing web apps is a bonus
* Product certifications or training such as PSPO or CSPO are preferred but not required

Benefits and Perks

* Medical/Dental/Vision
* 15 days of PTO and holidays
* Give you your birthday off
* 401k
* Provide you with an environment where high performance is not only recognized but rewarded.