Senior product owner

DISA Global Solutions is a leading safety and compliance provider supporting more than 55,000 customers worldwide, including over 30% of the Fortune 500. With 1,600+ team members across 30+ locations, we’ve delivered innovative solutions since 1986 and process more than 20 million orders each year. As a multi-year Top Workplaces award winner, DISA offers competitive pay, robust benefits, and a collaborative, growth-focused culture. Employees enjoy ongoing training through our internal learning and development team, monthly appreciation events, and numerous opportunities for career advancement.

Position Summary:

The Senior Product Owner translates product strategy and customer and business needs into clear priorities and actionable work for assigned technology products and platforms. Working with Product leadership, business stakeholders, business analysts, and developers, this role owns and prioritizes the product backlog, clarifies requirements and acceptance criteria, and makes day-to-day scope and delivery decisions within established objectives. The Senior Product Owner balances business value, user needs, technical feasibility, and delivery capacity while managing risks and dependencies to guide the team toward useful, reliable solutions.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

• Execute priorities aligned with product strategy and translate roadmap priorities into development-ready work with clear goals and expected outcomes.
• Own, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog. Approve backlog requirements and acceptance criteria, establish priorities, and make day-to-day feature decisions within established objectives.
• Work with business stakeholders, users, the Business Analyst, developers, and Product leadership to clarify requirements, delivery priorities, and expected outcomes.
• Provide day-to-day direction on product priorities, scope, and acceptance. Make timely decisions that help delivery teams stay aligned and move work forward.
• Lead product prioritization in partnership with the Product Manager, weighing business value, user needs, technical feasibility, risk, dependencies, and process impacts to establish feature priorities aligned with product strategy.
• Participate in sprint planning, reviews, backlog refinement, and other Agile ceremonies. Clarify priorities and requirements with delivery teams and support progress toward sprint goals.
• Review and accept completed work against acceptance criteria. Coordinate feature acceptance, user feedback, and product readiness with delivery teams.
• Monitor feature effectiveness, user adoption, and delivery-related outcomes. Use data and stakeholder feedback to inform future enhancements and product decisions.
• Use approved AI tools and best practices to improve productivity in analysis, requirements development, documentation, and day-to-day Product Owner responsibilities. Create clear, structured, AI-friendly documentation; validate AI-generated work and follow company requirements for confidential, personal, client, and business information.
• Identify opportunities to improve product workflows, delivery practices, documentation, and user experience.
• Perform additional responsibilities or projects as assigned by management.

Key Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, engineering, information systems, technology, or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience required.
• 7+ years of experience supporting operational business platforms or working in product ownership, product management, business analysis, or a related role.
• Demonstrated ability to execute product priorities, translate roadmap goals into development-ready work, and own and prioritize backlogs, requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Demonstrated experience working in Agile product delivery and across the software development lifecycle, including requirements definition, sprint planning, testing, release, and ongoing support. Experience with product management or work-tracking tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira, and documentation or collaboration tools such as Confluence and Microsoft Teams. CSPO, PSPO, or another Agile certification preferred.
• Experience supporting user acceptance testing and reviewing completed technology solutions against business requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Ability to create effective process maps, workflows, functional specifications, and clear AI-friendly documentation. Working knowledge of AI tools and best practices, with the ability to use AI effectively to improve productivity, analysis, requirements development, and day-to-day Product Owner responsibilities.
• Working knowledge of APIs, system integrations, and data flows, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills to identify root causes, assess tradeoffs, evaluate process impacts, and make sound decisions.
• Strong written and verbal communication, stakeholder management, and relationship-building skills. Ability to explain complex concepts, balance competing priorities, advocate for users, and work collaboratively in a changing environment.
• Demonstrated ability to confidently lead remote meetings on Microsoft Teams with a visible, on-camera presence, actively engage participants, ask probing questions, navigate differing viewpoints, and drive clear decisions, accountability, and next steps.

Benefits:

• Personal and Sick Paid Time Off.
• 401k with a highly competitive match.
• 11 Paid Holidays.
• Medical/Dental and Vision.
• Group Life Insurance, HSA/FSA.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Educational Assistance Program.
• Travel: This position may require occasional travel to support special projects and business meetings. Travel is expected to average approximately 5% - 10% based on business needs.

Work Schedule:

Monday - Friday 7:00 am - 4:00 pm CST

Internal Mapping:

This role aligns to the internal job profile of Senior Product Manager within the Product job family.

Physical Requirements:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to speak, hear, have close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Walk (occasionally), sit- up to 8hrs. a day, stand (occasionally), use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms, able to lift up to 15lbs.(occasionally).

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Compensation for this role is determined by factors such as skills, experience, education, training, and internal equity. Pay may also vary based on geographic location in accordance with our compensation practices.

Job Pay Range

$85,000 - $105,000 Annually (DOE)

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