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Product Owner - Ontology

Pennymac Cary, NC

Cary, NC

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$75k - $130k/yr Full time Ontologies Ontology Engineering Product Management

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Job Description

Own Pennymac’s enterprise ontology product that defines core entities once and reuses them across origination, servicing, and enterprise AI workflows.

Responsibilities

Define and champion enterprise ontology product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
Own the end-to-end product lifecycle: ideation, requirements, prioritization, development, launch, and iteration.
Ensure product decisions align with broader strategic initiatives, including revenue opportunities and cost-saving measures identified by product and business leadership.
Share product strategy, progress, and outcomes with senior management and cross-functional stakeholders.
Own and prioritize the ontology change backlog; establish and run ontology governance with change review and approval, impact assessment, and a stewardship model with named owners per domain.
Partner with data engineering on ontology hydration: map source systems to object types and confirm pipelines keep the model current.
Define competency questions and validation tests for each domain model to confirm the model answers business questions before release.
Define adoption and quality metrics, including reuse across workflows, duplicate or orphaned entity rates, definition coverage, mapping freshness, and time from change request to merged model change.
Own the semantic grounding layer for AI and agentic use cases so agents and LLM-backed workflows reason over governed objects with inherited permissions, lineage, and audit trails rather than raw, ungoverned data.
Collaborate with business units, technology teams, and executive leadership to gather insights, align priorities, and support product success.
Translate business needs into goals, user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional requirements using use cases, process flows, and data analysis.
Act as a business domain expert: assess current capabilities, identify improvement opportunities, and define measurable outcomes.
Create and maintain product documentation, including requirements, process flows, and reports.
Demonstrate behaviors aligned with the organization’s culture and values.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
5+ years in product management, business analysis, or data product ownership, including at least 2 years (preferred) in semantic modeling, ontology, taxonomy, canonical data models, or knowledge graphs.
Experience taking a domain from undocumented or inconsistent sources through conceptual modeling, formal specification, validation, and production deployment.
Working understanding of formal knowledge representation: class hierarchies, property definitions, cardinality, inheritance, logical constraints, and controlled vocabularies.
Working knowledge of SQL, including the ability to independently profile source data to test whether a proposed model is supported.
Proven ability to run modeling workshops and build consensus among SMEs with differing interpretations of terms.
Excellent interpersonal, verbal, written, and presentation skills, with experience working with stakeholders at all levels, including executive management.
Preferred: hands-on experience with ontology/semantic platforms such as RDF, OWL, SKOS, SHACL, or SPARQL; property graphs such as Neo4j and Cypher; or a modern semantic layer tool.
Preferred: mortgage origination or servicing domain knowledge, including familiarity with MISMO standards.

Technologies

SQL
RDF, OWL, SKOS, SHACL, SPARQL
Neo4j, Cypher
MISMO

Benefits

Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision
Paid Time Off Programs including vacation, holidays, illness, and parental leave
Wellness Programs, Employee Recognition Programs, and onsite gyms and cafe style dining (select locations)
Retirement benefits, life insurance, 401k match, and tuition reimbursement
Philanthropy Programs including matching gifts, volunteer grants, charitable grants and corporate sponsorships
Competitive salary; positions may offer bonus opportunities

Compensation

Salary: $75,000 - $130,000 (individual salary may vary based on role, geographic location/market data, and skills/experience).
Work model: OFFICE
Some roles may be eligible for performance-based compensation and/or stock-based incentives based on company and individual performance.

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