Senior Product Owner Job Description

Senior Product Owner Job Description

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Employment Type: Full-time Part-time Contract

Position Summary

The Senior Product Owner is responsible for maximizing product value by defining and prioritizing the product backlog, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring delivery of features that meet business objectives and customer needs. This role requires strategic product thinking, deep collaboration with cross-functional teams, and accountability for product outcomes and metrics.

Key Responsibilities

The Senior Product Owner will:

• Define and own the product backlog, ensuring items are well described, prioritized, and aligned to strategy.
• Work closely with stakeholders, engineering, UX, and data teams to translate business goals into clear acceptance criteria and deliverables.
• Establish and track success metrics, use data to inform decisions, and adjust priorities based on outcomes.
• Facilitate planning, refinement, and review sessions; remove impediments to delivery and make timely trade-off decisions.
• Mentor junior product owners and contribute to product management best practices across the organization.

Authority & Decision-Making

The Senior Product Owner has authority to set backlog priorities and acceptance criteria within the agreed product strategy. Material changes to scope or roadmap that materially impact budget or cross-functional commitments must be escalated to the Product Director for approval.

Required Qualifications & Skills

Minimum qualifications include:

• 7+ years product management or product ownership experience in SaaS or technology products.
• Proven experience delivering complex product initiatives and driving cross-functional alignment.
• Strong analytical skills, familiarity with product metrics, A/B testing, and data-driven decision making.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

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Equal Employment Opportunity: The company provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other status protected by applicable law. Reasonable accommodations will be provided as required by law.

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