Product Owner

SafelyYou is seeking a Product Owner to bridge strategy with execution within the Case & Notifications domain. This fully remote role owns the day-to-day engineering cadence and translates validated product direction into actionable work for the team. The position offers USD 120,000 to 150,000 per year and requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience along with at least 3 years in product ownership.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain a well-groomed, prioritized backlog for the Case & Notifications teams, ensuring stories are ready for the next sprint.
• Write clear, detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and edge-case definitions to give engineers confidence in execution.
• Collaborate with engineering leads to sequence work, manage dependencies, reduce risk, and maximize delivery throughput.
• Monitor sprint commitments, flag blockers early, and drive resolution to consistently meet sprint goals.
• Translate prioritized product direction from Product Management into granular, implementation-ready requirements.
• Lead regular refinement sessions with engineers to surface technical questions and close ambiguity before work begins.
• Maintain traceability between high-level goals and individual tickets so the team understands the why behind each piece of work.
• Document decisions, assumptions, and out-of-scope items to prevent scope creep and reduce rework.
• Facilitate and participate in sprint ceremonies including planning, daily stand-up, review, and retrospective, ensuring they are efficient and outcome-focused.
• Monitor sprint health in real time and proactively manage scope adjustments when unexpected complexity or blockers arise.
• Ensure shipped features meet the acceptance criteria defined at story creation.
• Contribute to release planning by providing accurate delivery forecasts and communicating risks to stakeholders in a timely manner.
• Act as the day-to-day point of contact between the Case & Notifications teams and adjacent teams such as Customer Success and Operations.
• Attend and contribute to broader product planning forums, representing the execution perspective of the squad.
• Surface delivery constraints and technical debt implications to Product Management to enable informed prioritization decisions.
• Support go-to-market readiness by collaborating with Customer Success and Marketing on release notes, training materials, and rollout sequencing.
• Define and track squad-level delivery metrics (cycle time, defect escape rate, sprint goal achievement) to drive improvements.
• Champion a culture of quality by advocating for adequate testing, well-defined acceptance criteria, and clean technical practices.
• Facilitate retrospectives that yield concrete, measurable process improvements sprint over sprint.
• Monitor post-release behavior of Case & Notifications features with Customer Success and feed actionable insights back to the squad.

Requirements

• 3-5+ years of professional experience as a Product Owner.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical, business, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven experience as a Product Owner or in a similar execution-focused delivery role within a software R&D team.
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and hands-on experience running sprint ceremonies.
• Strong ability to write precise, unambiguous user stories and acceptance criteria that engineers can act on immediately.
• Demonstrated skill in breaking down large product initiatives into well-sequenced, sprint-ready backlog items.
• Excellent communication skills able to translate between product strategy and engineering implementation.
• Experience working within or alongside a healthcare or safety-focused technology product is a plus.

Benefits

• A mission-driven company culture
• Fully remote
• Competitive salary and benefits, including fully paid employee premiums for Medical, Dental, and Vision
• 401k Program
• Monthly Education, Well-being & WFH stipends
• Non-accrual PTO
• Growth Potential
• Company Retreats
• Medical & Family/Parental Leave