Senior IT Product Owner

Tyson Foods is seeking a Senior IT Product Owner in Springdale, AR (onsite) to help shape technology delivery that improves business processes and delivers measurable business value. This role focuses on translating business needs into clear product direction, outcomes, and execution with cross-functional teams using Agile/Scrum.

What you’ll be responsible for

• Define and maintain the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and release priorities.
• Partner with business leaders to identify opportunities and prioritize investments.
• Gather and translate business requirements into epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Own and manage the product backlog, balancing business value, risk, cost, and technical feasibility.
• Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, product demonstrations, and user acceptance testing.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, customer-focused solutions.
• Monitor product performance, adoption, stakeholder satisfaction, and business outcomes.
• Drive continuous improvement, innovation, and effective change adoption.

What you’ll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in product ownership, product management, business analysis, or a related technology role.
• Strong experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and enterprise technology delivery.
• Proven ability to manage stakeholders, establish priorities, and drive business outcomes.
• Excellent communication, analytical, leadership, and problem-solving skills.

Benefits at Tyson Foods

• Paid time off
• 401(k) plans
• Affordable health, life, dental, vision, and prescription drug benefits

Helpful skills (preferred)

• Product roadmap development
• Agile product delivery
• Requirements management
• Business process improvement
• Strategic prioritization
• Executive stakeholder engagement
• Data-driven decision-making

Impact

You will deliver technology solutions that improve business processes, enhance the user experience, and create measurable business value.

Responsible use of approved AI tools

All professional team members are expected to demonstrate responsible use of approved AI tools, including safeguarding sensitive information. Individual contributors should integrate AI into daily work, improve efficiency through AI-enabled solutions, evaluate outputs critically, and apply professional judgment when using AI. People leaders should drive responsible AI adoption, enable effective use of approved solutions, identify opportunities to improve team performance through AI, and ensure accountability for the quality and accuracy of AI-supported outcomes.

Additional details

• Work shift: 1ST SHIFT (United States of America)
• Relocation assistance eligible: No
• Hourly applicants only: You must complete the task after submitting your application to provide additional information to be considered for employment.

Tyson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, national origin, color, religion, age, genetics, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status.

Unsolicited assistance: Tyson Foods and its subsidiaries do not accept unsolicited support from external recruitment vendors for resumes or candidate profiles submitted by recruitment vendors or headhunters to any employee or applicant tracking system without a valid written request and search agreement approved by HR. No fees will be paid if the candidate is hired due to an unsolicited referral.