Product owner

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Collectivus Holdings is a dynamic business group encompassing brands many of the most prestigious brands in the Collecting, Trading Card Game, and Hobby industries. With a century's worth of collective experience in driving product and service innovation, high-end quality standards, and elevated customer experience, Collectivus brands are among the most recognized and loved throughout the world by the communities they serve.

Website: https://www.collectivusholdings.com

Locations: Nashville – Garland – Aarhus – Lisbon – Worldwide

Job Title:

Product Owner

Job Location:

Remote - US

Key Responsibilities

• Own delivery outcomes for the Collectivus digital product team: scope, sequencing, and committed dates.
• Own execution sequencing within the product roadmap, turning product direction into well-defined, ready-to-build work.
• Own sprint commitments and release scope, including go/no-go decisions.
• Own scope trade-offs when delivery is at risk, escalating only when the roadmap itself must change.
• Own the delivery process across functional leads, and change it when it stops working.
• Own delivery health: risks to scope and timeline surfaced and acted on before they become misses.

Accountable for:

• Time to market, predictability, cycle time, and defects

Backlog & Requirements

• Translate the Product Manager's long-term vision and roadmap into an executable product backlog and near-term sprint cycles.
• Transform business, customer, and regulatory requirements into actionable, well-scoped product requirements.
• Write and maintain clear specs and acceptance criteria, acting as the point of clarity for engineering and QA throughout the build.
• Partner with Scrum Master to bring triaged work into backlog and sprint.
• Own backlog sequencing and readiness within the agreed product roadmap.
• Deeply understand Collectivus’ tech stack and make sequencing decisions that consider the system as a whole.
• Ensure work entering development is defined, estimated, and dependency-checked before it starts.
• Keep documentation current so nothing slips between features or teams.

Operational Product Workflows

• Own decision logging so delivery decisions are recorded, traceable, and communicated.
• Participate in and help facilitate Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives)
• Coordinate delivery management, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) scheduling, and assignment.

Delivery Leadership

• Run delivery across digital, enterprise systems, backend and data, and design bringing each to clear commitments and holding them to what they committed.
• Surface and resolve cross-team dependencies early.
• Set and defend sprint commitments; protect the team from mid-sprint scope change.
• Make release scope and go/no-go decisions and communicate them clearly to the team and stakeholders.

Delivery Health & Process

• Track delivery health against committed dates and report status on a weekly cadence.
• Flag risks to scope and timelines early, each with a mitigation and a named owner.
• Continuously improve the delivery process; remove steps that do not earn their place.
• Partner with the Collectivus product manager to keep delivery aligned with strategy and discovery output.
• Establish and track delivery metrics, including commitment reliability, backlog readiness, cycle time, release quality, and critical bug aging, to identify opportunities and drive improvements in delivery performance.

Communications & Collaboration

• Serve as the team's primary point of contact for questions on scope, priority, and tradeoffs.
• Communicate roadmap progress, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to cross-functional stakeholders.
• Work directly with scrum master, UX designer, developers, business systems analysts, and engineers day-to-day.

Who You Are

• Take ownership without being asked; makes decisions under ambiguity and stands behind them.
• Direct and decisive across engineering and design; able to challenge scope, negotiate trade-offs, and bring teams to clear commitments.
• Precise and structured in specs, acceptance criteria, documentation, and process.
• Runs many concurrent workstreams without dropping threads; steady under pressure.
• Improves systems rather than maintaining them.
• Builds alignment across functional leads when priorities, constraints, or trade-offs conflict; influences without relying on formal authority.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in enterprise software environments.
• CSPO or equivalent Product Owner certification.
• Experience using data and analytics to inform prioritization decisions.
• Background partnering with compliance, legal, or risk stakeholders on product requirements.
• Experience working with digital products at scale and within data-driven product teams.

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