Product Owner

Grandview Corporation offers a remote Product Owner role on the Innovation and Technology team. This position focuses on translating business requirements into well defined user stories, maintaining backlog clarity, and collaborating with stakeholders and Tech Leads to deliver high quality outcomes within a value stream. The role supports a collaborative culture with opportunities for Product Owner certification and professional growth. Salary ranges from USD 116,510 to 140,313 per year.

Responsibilities

• Requirements gathering: Engage with business stakeholders to capture detailed requirements, understand the business context, compliance implications, and user impact of every request.
• Story writing: Translate business requirements into clear, actionable user stories with specific, testable acceptance criteria, ensuring the what and why are included to guide the how.
• Backlog management: Maintain and prioritize the team backlog in Azure DevOps, ensuring stories are groomed, well defined, and sequenced by business value.
• Technical collaboration: Partner with Tech Leads during story reviews to confirm technical completeness; flag architecture implications for review when needed.
• Acceptance and validation: Accept completed work against acceptance criteria (Level 1). For stakeholder impact bug fixes, confirm with stakeholders post deployment (Level 2). For new external features, compliance changes, and financial calculations, conduct formal user acceptance testing with stakeholders (Level 3).
• Compliance tracking: For compliance flagged work, confirm filing dates, effective dates, and regulatory deadlines. Build timelines from hard deadlines and monitor delivery.
• Stakeholder communication: Provide progress updates, sprint demos, and release communications to business stakeholders; maintain transparency on delivery status and schedule changes.
• Continuous improvement: Pursue Product Owner certification if not already held and participate in training to sharpen requirements gathering, story writing, and backlog management skills.

Requirements

• Analytical skills: Strong ability to analyze business processes, ask the right questions, and produce precise requirements.
• Documentation: Excellent written documentation skills; ability to produce clear, detailed user stories and business requirements documents.
• Communication: Proven ability to engage stakeholders, clarify priorities, and align across business and technical teams.
• Tools: Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps or similar agile backlog management tools.
• Insurance knowledge: Familiarity with insurance operations, products, or technology is strongly preferred.
• Technical curiosity: Comfortable learning new systems, APIs, and data flows to become the domain expert for your stream.
• Certifications: CSPO, PSPO, or SAFe Product Owner certification preferred.
• Education: Bachelor's degree required.

Technologies

Azure DevOps

Benefits

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Role levels

Sr Product Owner: Owns the full requirements lifecycle for a value stream, including stakeholder management, acceptance authority, and mentoring POs. Minimum 5+ years in Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, or similar roles. Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder requirements across regulatory and technical domains. Serves as the final quality gate for all stories entering sprints (Definition of Ready authority). Mentors and supports Product Owners on story quality, stakeholder engagement, and domain expertise. Demonstrated ability to manage cross-Value Stream dependencies, drive release readiness, and support hybrid delivery documentation as needed.

Product Owner: Owns story writing, backlog management, and acceptance for assigned work within a value stream under the Sr PO's guidance. Minimum 2+ years in Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, or similar roles. Strong story writing and backlog management skills. Works under the Sr PO's guidance on prioritization and stakeholder management. Growing into full ownership of the requirements lifecycle. Strong collaboration within the Value Stream and ongoing improvements in story quality, acceptance criteria clarity, project requirement details, and stakeholder communication.

Work location

Remote