Product Owner

Cambridge Investment Research is seeking a Product Owner to shape and deliver a complex enterprise product or platform. In this individual contributor role, you will own product strategy and execution within an assigned scope, coordinating cross-functional partners to drive measurable outcomes.

Based in Phoenix, AZ and working onsite, the role focuses on turning strategy into execution, aligning teams around value, and ensuring adoption through the full product lifecycle.

What you’ll do

• Partner with Product Management, Design, and Engineering to define product vision, strategy, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
• Identify, evaluate, and prioritize opportunities using criteria including customer value, business impact, feasibility, risk, effort, confidence, dependencies, and time-to-value.
• Lead product work from discovery and experimentation through MVP definition, delivery, launch, measurement, and continuous improvement for assigned product(s).
• Translate strategy into a prioritized backlog of outcomes, including epics, features, stories, acceptance criteria, instrumentation, controls, and adoption requirements.
• Support product governance by converting expectations tied to risk, privacy, security, legal, and compliance into practical product requirements.
• Define product scorecards and manage toward outcomes such as adoption, satisfaction, productivity, quality, and risk.
• Drive adoption for internal associates and external users, as applicable, through readiness planning, communications, learning, onboarding, support, and feedback loops.
• Create executive-ready strategy narratives including investment cases, roadmaps, priority recommendations, decision logs, and performance updates.
• Use Azure DevOps to maintain backlog hierarchy, priority, traceability, dashboards, reporting, and execution visibility.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive product management, product ownership, or related experience.
• Experience owning product strategy, roadmaps, backlogs, OKRs, delivery, adoption, and value realization for complex enterprise products or platforms.
• Proven ability to deliver products from discovery through adoption in a multi-stakeholder enterprise environment.
• Working knowledge of enterprise platforms and governance concepts relevant to the assigned product area(s).
• Strong discovery, prioritization, analytical, and investment-case skills.
• Excellent ability to influence without authority and communicate complex choices to executives, technical partners, governance functions, and business stakeholders.
• Experience driving adoption and organizational change across diverse user populations.
• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

Benefits

• Premium benefit package including medical, vision, dental, life, and long-term disability insurance
• Vacation/sick time
• 401K retirement plan with company matching program
• Eleven paid holidays

Company context

Cambridge Investment Research is a financial solutions firm that provides business support services to thousands of independent financial advisors. These advisors deliver personalized investment services, including wealth management, financial planning, and retirement services to individuals and families across the country. Cambridge also provides significant compliance, technology, and transaction processing support to these financial advisors and their offices.

Why Cambridge

The company offers competitive benefits and promotes work-life balance to encourage individual success.