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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Experienced Product Owner - **Company:** iPipeline, Inc. - **Location:** Davidson, NC, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Confluence, JIRA, Software as a Service, DevOps, Knowledge Management, Microsoft OneNote, Scrum Methodology, Power BI, Requirements Management, Salesforce.Com, Microsoft SharePoint, Usage Analysis, Enterprise Software Applications, Microsoft Onedrive, Figma - **Published:** August 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=8d22a2e3902d4ec4 ## About the Role * Typically requires 3+ years of relevant professional experience delivering software in an agile environment; experience in financial services, life insurance, and/or annuities preferred. * Working knowledge of SaaS or enterprise software delivery, customer workflows, market needs, business objectives, financial services concepts, and life insurance and/or annuities domains preferred; understands compliance considerations and operational impacts sufficient to inform prioritization decisions. * Experience planning and sequencing stories for a defined scope, participating in Agile ceremonies, and partnering with Scrum Masters and delivery teams to remove routine blockers. * Experience working with Engineering, Architecture, Design, QA, Support, Compliance, and Product Management to validate delivered functionality, manage dependencies, and support release readiness. * Voice of Customer and customer context: Salesforce-connected content; customer/stakeholder feedback captured through Microsoft 365 sources as applicable. * Experience with Jira for Agile planning and work tracking, including ## Description Job Summary: The Experienced Product Owner owns a defined feature or component area within a SaaS or enterprise software product, with emphasis on financial services, life insurance, and/or annuities where relevant. Partners with Product Managers to translate product vision, strategy, and scope into executable backlog items; writes clear requirements and acceptance criteria; supports Agile delivery ceremonies; and makes day-to-day prioritization decisions that balance customer needs, business value, technical constraints, and delivery commitments with moderate supervision. Product Discovery & Customer Insight: * Support discovery for owned features by gathering customer, stakeholder, operational, analytics, document, and interview inputs; summarize insights that preserve the voice of the customer and inform prioritization and delivery decisions. * Translate business needs into clear, concise, complete, feasible, and testable requirements for a defined feature/component; communicate scope, trade-offs, expected outcomes, quality benchmarks, external interfaces, and constraints to ensure shared understanding. Stakeholder Alignment & Management: * Build strong working relationships with Product Managers, Scrum Masters, Engineering, QA, Design, project managers, Support, and business stakeholders for owned work; facilitate alignment when dependencies affect the feature/component scope. * Create concise product summaries and presentations that connect scope, outcomes, customer impact, and delivery commitments; translate technical information for customers, end users, internal stakeholders, and management audiences. Backlog Prioritization: * Own backlog hygiene and prioritization for a defined feature/component in Jira, using business value, customer impact, strategic objectives, risk, effort, and delivery commitments to guide sequencing. * Write well-formed user stories, functional requirements, acceptance criteria, and supporting documentation; decompose higher-level customer and end-user needs into implementable detail and resolve ambiguity before development begins. * Maintain a lightweight dependency, risk, blocker, and requirements-status view for the owned scope; communicate impacts, manage changes to baseline requirements, and propose sequencing options. Sprint Planning: * Participate actively in sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives; ensure priorities, requirements, acceptance criteria, and expected outcomes are clear to the team. * Partner with the Scrum Master and delivery team to confirm Definition of Ready/Done, testability, and planning inputs for stories in the owned scope. * Make day-to-day prioritization decisions for owned work, balancing customer needs, business goals, technical constraints, and delivery commitments; escalate unresolved trade-offs appropriately. Release Readiness: * Confirm stories meet acceptance criteria, Definition of Done, and agreed quality benchmarks before release; contribute to go/no-go inputs, release notes, rollback considerations, and change-control expectations for the owned feature/component. * Partner with QA, Engineering, Support, Documentation, and Compliance to validate delivered functionality against expected outcomes and consolidate release readiness inputs. * Track success metrics, customer feedback, defects, and operational signals for owned work; use evidence to support release communications and identify follow-on improvements. Metrics, Outcomes, & ROI: * Define and monitor success metrics for owned features, including adoption, completion, quality, flow, customer feedback, and operational indicators; use insights to recommend backlog adjustments. * Contribute to lightweight business cases and value assessments for features; report realized value against expected customer and business outcomes after release. Documentation & Enablement: * Produce and maintain requirements documentation, supporting models or prototype layouts when helpful, user-facing help, release notes, and internal enablement content for owned features. * Execute concise handoffs to Support and Customer Success, ensuring known behaviors, limits, customer impacts, and operational considerations are documented. Post-release learning & Iteration: * Run lightweight post-release reviews for owned features; convert customer feedback, defects, metric learnings, and new practices into prioritized backlog items for future work. * Monitor early-use telemetry, support feedback, and customer signals to recommend improvements that increase customer satisfaction, adoption, and business outcomes., + Experience owning a feature/component backlog in Jira, co-facilitating backlog refinement, and producing clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and supporting documentation that reduce ambiguity before development begins. + Road mapping and portfolio visibility: Jira product/roadmap views and Product Management planning artifacts. + Release/change and DevOps visibility: Jira release notes and standard release artifacts; coordinate with Engineering/QA tooling as needed for owned scope. + Test and quality management: Jira-based story acceptance, defect linkage, and release readiness evidence; coordinate with QA on test evidence for owned scope. + Dependency and service catalog: lightweight dependency views in Jira and shared Product Management planning artifacts for owned feature/component scope. * Diagramming and design collaboration: experience with Figma and Confluence persona boards, shared Microsoft 365/SharePoint materials for story mapping and discovery artifacts. * Product analytics & BI: experience with Power BI and Salesforce-connected content; Jira metrics, retrospectives, and feedback to support prioritization and process improvement. * Experimentation and feature management: approved discovery experiments/prototypes and Product Management single-source-of-truth workflows when available. * API and integration context knowledge: understands API/contract dependencies for owned stories and experience coordinating details with Engineering using Jira and shared technical documentation. * Experience with SharePoint, OneDrive, OneNote, and Confluence for documentation and knowledge management. ## Related Videos - [Building an agentic software factory: How we rebuilt product development at Pipedrive](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100261-building-an-agentic-software-factory-how-we-rebuilt-product-development-at-pipedrive) - [Improving quality with Agentic AI with Rovo Dev and Xray](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2005-improving-quality-with-agentic-ai-with-rovo-dev-and-xray) - [Boost Productivity with AI: Figma & Playwright MCP Workflows - Aris Markogiannakis](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1768-boost-productivity-with-ai-figma-playwright-mcp-workflows-aris-markogiannakis) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Collaboration Quantified: Lessons from Open Source Developer Networks](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1422-collaboration-quantified-lessons-from-open-source-developer-networks) - [Designing the Future of Human<>Agent Collaboration](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1447-designing-the-future-of-human-agent-collaboration) ## Related Articles - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Why developer experience matters](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/514-why-developer-experience-matters) - [The Most Important Concept Every Developer Should Know](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/344-the-most-important-concept-every-developer-should-know) - [Now is the time for industrialized software development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/601-now-is-the-time-for-industrialized-software-development) - [What is product discovery and why do developers need it?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/517-what-is-product-discovery-and-why-do-developers-need-it)