Product Owner

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Job Description:

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Translate Talent Community strategy into clear product goals, success measures, and backlog priorities.

• Own and maintain a transparent backlog and roadmap, prioritizing by value, effort, risk, and dependencies, and pushing back on misaligned requests to protect focus and capacity.

• Run the Talent Community Committee cadence for intake, prioritization, decisioning, escalation, and dependency management, keeping stakeholders aligned on priorities, constraints, and rationale.

• Define and communicate the Talent Community product goal(s) and success measures, aligned to business priorities.

• Publish outcome readouts tied to KPIs and experiments (what changed, what moved, what’s next) and use the insights to re-prioritize.

• Define “ready” work by turning needs into clear backlog items with user stories and acceptance criteria for features, enhancements, and workflows. 

• Partner with cross-functional owners to clarify scope, manage tradeoffs, and ship high-quality iterations that deliver measurable value.

• Represent the candidate/Staffer voice in prioritization and decision-making across the product lifecycle.

• Lead continuous improvement by using candidate/Staffer feedback and performance data to identify friction, run pilots/A/B tests when appropriate, scale what works, and stop what doesn’t.

Requirements:

• 3+ years in a Product Owner (or equivalent) role with backlog ownership and demonstrated prioritization authority.  

• Experience defining success metrics (KPIs) and using performance insights to reprioritize roadmaps/backlogs.  

• Familiarity with experimentation and measurement (A/B testing, segmentation/cohorts, funnel analysis).  

• Experience leading cross-functional governance (cadences, decisioning, escalation, dependency alignment) and managing stakeholder tradeoffs.  

• Experience partnering with technical delivery teams in iterative environments (preferred).  

• Experience in staffing, talent acquisition, onboarding, lifecycle programs, or talent development (preferred). 

Key Skills: 

Technical (Required)  

• BI and dashboard literacy  

• Experimentation and measurement  

• Data interpretation and insight communication  

• Requirements documentation  

• Data quality and governance basics  

Technical (Preferred)  

• Data querying literacy  

• Automation/analysis tooling familiarity  

• Version control familiarity  

• Data pipeline and integration awareness  

• Transformation framework awareness   

Behavioral (Required)  

• Business acumen

• Stakeholder management  

• Coaching and feedback 

Software and Tools Required: Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook, Planner), Workday, Copilot.

Work Shift:

8:30 AM - 5:30 PM [EST][EDT] (United States of America)

Languages:

English, Spanish

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