IT Product Owner - Merchandise Systems

Casey’s is hiring an IT Product Owner to lead merchandising master data systems and workflows onsite in Ankeny, IA.

Responsibilities

• Own the item setup and maintenance workflow from new item creation through attribute population, including vendor-item relationships, pack hierarchy, and lifecycle management.
• Support retail pricing and promotional systems, ensuring price changes, promotional events, and markdown execution reach stores accurately and on time.
• Collaborate with Merchandisers and Buyers on tools and workflows for product placement, location-based assortment, and maintaining up-to-date planogram data as the catalog changes.
• Manage day-to-day accountability with vendors across their roadmaps, contracts, and bug queues.
• Practice scrum delivery fundamentals by handling story decomposition, defining acceptance criteria and definition of done, and maintaining sprint hygiene for clean delivery on a two-week cadence.
• Lead intake, alignment, and status communications with business owners across Buyers, Planners, Merchandisers, and Finance, including readiness conversations to move releases forward.
• Run pre-release reviews with data validation signoffs and perform defect triage to protect store operations and pricing integrity for item launches, promotions, planogram resets, and recipe changes.
• Coordinate with other product owners to keep agile delivery execution consistent across teams.

Requirements

• Authorization to work in the U.S. without employment-based immigration sponsorship now or in the future; Casey’s does not provide sponsorship or employer support for multiple visa types including F-1 OPT, F-1 CPT, H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, and J-1, among others.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work-related experience.
• At least 5 years of direct experience in product ownership.
• Certified in Scrum Product Ownership (plus).
• Experience using collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Smartsheet’s (or similar).
• Hands-on Product Owner experience writing stories for engineers, maintaining a backlog that reflects the current world, and preventing a team from getting stuck in day-to-day issues.
• Comfortable communicating “not this sprint” when needed.
• Experience alongside engineers on a real retail or food service data platform, including familiarity with Oracle Retail, PIM/MDM, and recipe management systems, plus how item attributes, pricing rules, assortment data, recipe formulations, and compliance restrictions flow to downstream systems.
• Ability to define what “complete” looks like for a new item or recipe record and understand the business impact when it is not.
• Bonus if experience includes promotional pricing, planogram tooling, allergen compliance, or regulatory labeling in retail or food service.
• Strong interpersonal skills with clear verbal and written communication, including presentation and facilitation.
• Detail oriented and organized, able to manage multiple complex tasks simultaneously.
• Passion for guest needs, team oriented, capable in both planning and tactical execution, and open to new ideas.

Technologies

• Jira
• Confluence
• Smartsheet’s
• Oracle Retail
• PIM/MDM

Compensation & Benefits

• Starting pay range: $91,600 - 120,200 per year.
• Eligible for an annual cash bonus based on company performance.
• Full salary range for this role extends beyond the typical hiring range listed, supporting ongoing growth within the company.

Location & Work Model

• Ankeny, IA (onsite)
• No 100% remote work.
• Must live within daily commutable distance of the Casey’s Store Support Center in Ankeny, IA and be able to work onsite 5 days per week.

Pay Notes: Actual pay may vary based on knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), experience, education, and qualifications. Other pay factors include local prevailing wages and internal equity.