Senior Product Owner

CliftonLarsonAllen (CLA) is hiring a Senior Product Owner in Charlotte, NC to own the end-to-end product lifecycle for a complete product or a major product area. The role centers on continuous discovery, Agile delivery execution, cross-functional technical alignment, and ongoing optimization after release to achieve measurable outcomes.

What you’ll do

• Work with product leadership and business stakeholders to shape vision, strategy, and the roadmap for the assigned product area.
• Lead qualitative and quantitative research to validate user problems and identify opportunities within scope.
• Turn discovery findings into hypotheses and actionable backlog items, ensuring feasibility and alignment to desired outcomes.
• Communicate priorities, insights, and delivery progress to keep stakeholders aligned.
• Create product requirements documents, process flows, and prototypes that capture user needs, business goals, and functional and non-functional requirements.
• Own and prioritize the backlog using frameworks such as MoSCoW, Value-Effort analysis, and RICE.
• Balance time to market with scalability, technical debt, and stakeholder priorities.
• Translate product direction into epics, features, and user stories with acceptance criteria, dependencies, and compliance considerations.
• Use feedback and behavioral data to refine backlog items and support the Definition of Ready and Definition of Done.
• Coordinate with product leadership on cross-team risks and dependencies.
• Partner with engineering and architecture to ensure requirements translate into viable solutions aligned to platform patterns.
• Assess technical tradeoffs related to scalability, extensibility, auditability, and integration approaches.
• Plan for downstream needs such as data structures, validation logic, audit trails, and reusable components.
• Drive delivery execution from validated requirements through production release and post-launch enhancements.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including PI Planning, sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives.
• Define delivery milestones and success criteria with Scrum Masters, Release Train Engineers, and program or project managers.
• Track progress, remove impediments, and ensure delivery aligns with objectives, key results, quality standards, and timelines.
• Act as the primary product interface for business owners, technology partners, end users, and delivery teams.
• Manage competing priorities with structured rationale, data insights, and outcome-focused communication.
• Share progress, risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs transparently, escalating concerns when needed.
• Promote agility, experimentation, continuous learning, and systems thinking across the product area.
• Define and analyze product performance against key performance indicators to identify improvement opportunities.
• Prioritize improvements across user experience, workflow quality, system performance, and business outcomes.
• Lead post-launch enhancements so continuous learning informs the product roadmap and operational processes.

What you bring

• 4 years of relevant experience required.
• Bachelor’s degree required; a combination of relevant experience, education, and training may be accepted in place of a degree.
• Degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field preferred.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner or SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager certification preferred.
• Systems thinking across business, technical, and user requirements for enterprise systems.
• Technical fluency in software engineering, APIs, data integration, and enterprise architecture.
• Experience applying prioritization frameworks such as MoSCoW, Value-Effort, RICE, or Kano.
• Knowledge of user-centered design principles, Design Thinking, and user research.
• Strong analytical skills using qualitative and quantitative data to guide decisions and evaluate product performance.
• Experience leading discovery and delivery through Agile practices such as Scrum, Lean, or SAFe.
• Ability to align cross-functional teams and deliver complex integrations with measurable outcomes.

Tools and technologies

• APIs
• MoSCoW, Value-Effort, RICE, Kano
• Scrum, SAFe, Lean
• PI Planning
• Design Thinking

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision
• 401k
• Comprehensive benefit options

Location: Charlotte, NC (onsite). Travel: less than 10%.