Product Owner II

This Product Owner II role is responsible for owning the product vision and roadmap for a suite of operator and market-facing applications that support MISO’s electrical grid operations. The position partners with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to prioritize work, shape solution design, and deliver measurable value using agile practices.

Role Summary

Own the vision and roadmap for operator and market-facing application capabilities supporting electrical grid operations. Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to guide prioritization, define solutions, and drive business value through agile delivery. Maintain a backlog and support release planning, communication, and innovation efforts.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive product vision and roadmap by aligning user needs, business goals, industry trends, and product health insights with long-term strategic priorities.
• Lead discovery through targeted questioning and workflow analysis, partnering closely with operators and subject-matter experts to prioritize essential research.
• Align cross-functional teams around objectives and outcomes, acting as a product evangelist.
• Apply Agile and a product mindset to support adaptability, learning, user-centered thinking, and improved delivery practices.
• Connect product decisions to user workflows, outcomes, and business objectives, anticipating emerging needs and aligning initiatives with strategy.
• Build business cases, maintain and prioritize the backlog, validate completed work, and lead release planning, solution definition, innovation efforts, and stakeholder communication.
• Identify complex insights from product metrics, develop measures when needed, and use data to guide product direction.
• Champion responsible, high-value use of AI to strengthen product management practices, improve analysis, and accelerate value delivery.
• Promote innovation by identifying improvement opportunities and creative solutions that advance real-time communication, shared awareness, logging accuracy, and readiness.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field (or 4 years relevant work experience equivalency); plus 3-6 years of experience in product management, product ownership, business analysis, systems engineering, or related experience.
• Proven experience shaping and driving product vision and roadmaps.
• Strong servant leadership skills, including the ability to facilitate collaboration, resolve conflicts, and drive continuous improvement.
• Working knowledge of software development concepts and Agile methodologies.
• Familiarity with user experience best practices and translating business needs into effective solutions.
• Demonstrated experience applying AI tools in product management to improve productivity, analysis, and workflow.
• Energy industry experience is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
• SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager
• PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner

Education

• Bachelor’s degree or better in Business Administration or a related field
• Bachelor’s degree or better in Information Technology or a related field

Licenses & Certifications

• SAFe Cert (Preferred)

Compensation & Location

Location: Little Rock, AR (onsite). Salary: USD 143,000 - 168,000 per year.

Benefits

• Annual bonus if individual performance and company objectives are met.
• 401k
• Vacation, sick and safe time, available on your first day of employment.