Product Owner I (Entry-Level)

PDI Technologies offers a supportive environment for all and a team-focused approach to building products from concept to delivery. In this entry-level Product Owner role, you will collaborate with experienced Product Managers alongside engineering, design, and business stakeholders, helping turn requirements into clear user stories and contributing to releases that drive measurable customer value. The hybrid working arrangement is available where appropriate, with continuous learning support, professional certifications, and leadership development opportunities.

What you’ll do

• Partner with Product Managers to understand product strategy, priorities, and customer needs.
• Translate business requirements into epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria, using AI tools such as Claude to draft and refine them.
• Help build and maintain reusable prompt templates for recurring tasks like story generation and refinement preparation.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with engineering, design, support, and business teams to keep work aligned and actionable.
• Assist with prioritizing and maintaining the product backlog.
• Gather feedback from customers, stakeholders, and internal teams to surface opportunities to improve the product and user experience.
• Test new functionality, validate solutions against business requirements, and confirm completed stories meet the team’s definition of done.
• Support release planning and help set expectations for delivery of new functionality.
• Track product performance and help identify opportunities to enhance the user experience.
• Document processes, workflows, and product requirements to support consistent execution.

What you’ll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Technology, Information Systems, Marketing, Communications, or a related field.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban, and the phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Familiarity with technical concepts including APIs, middleware, services, and SQL.
• Exposure to tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Figma, and Miro (or similar platforms).
• Experience using AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, or other productivity technologies.
• Interest in prompt engineering, including writing clear, context-rich prompts and iterating to improve AI-generated stories and acceptance criteria.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to translate between technical and business audiences.
• Ability to create user journeys, wireframes, and basic diagrams to communicate ideas.
• Ability to organize multiple priorities and manage deadlines.
• Curiosity and willingness to learn new technologies and business processes.
• Strong attention to detail and a customer-focused mindset.

Success looks like

• Building a strong understanding of customers and products.
• Growing confidence in writing user stories and managing backlog items.
• Developing productive partnerships with engineering and business teams.
• Helping deliver features that create measurable customer value.
• Advancing understanding of Agile development and product management best practices.
• Influencing product decisions through customer and data-driven insights.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Market-competitive benefits
• Quarterly perks program
• Ample time off
• Hybrid working arrangements, where appropriate
• Continuous learning
• Professional certifications
• Leadership development opportunities
• A supportive environment for all

Location: Alpharetta, GA (hybrid). Technologies you may use: Scrum, Kanban, SDLC, APIs, middleware, services, SQL, Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Figma, Miro, Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude.