Product Owner

The Product Owner is responsible for the overall health, effectiveness, and continuous improvement of assigned technology products. Working within product strategy established by the Product Manager, this role partners with business and technical teams to understand user needs, recommend solutions, define product capabilities, manage the product backlog, and guide initiatives through delivery and adoption. The Product Owner balances new enhancements with product stability, usability, and long-term sustainability, ensuring investments align to business objectives and deliver measurable value.

What You’ll Do:

• Maintain understanding of product capabilities, dependencies, risks, limitations, and improvement opportunities.

• Analyze product usage, user feedback, and vendor roadmaps to inform recommendations.

• Recommend technical debt remediation and product sustainability improvements.

• Balance enhancement opportunities with platform stability, maintainability, and supportability.

• Partner with stakeholders to understand business needs, challenges, constraints, and desired outcomes.

• Develop and evaluate solution options, including tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, and expected business impact.

• Define workflows, capabilities, features, and requirements that support approved product objectives.

• Align on recommended solutions and translate them into delivery-ready work.

• Maintain a prioritized product backlog aligned to approved priorities and business objectives.

• Create user stories and acceptance criteria sufficient for development, testing, business validation, and efficient delivery.

• Ensure upcoming work is appropriately scoped, understood, and ready for execution.

• Manage dependencies, risks, assumptions, and decisions impacting delivery.

• Guide initiatives through the software delivery lifecycle from planning through release and adoption.

• Partner with delivery teams to provide timely clarification, business context, and decision support throughout execution.

• Support testing, business validation, and business readiness activities to ensure delivered capabilities meet business needs.

• Communicate progress, risks, dependencies, and issues while gathering feedback and supporting adoption of delivered capabilities.

• Build trusted relationships across business and technology teams.

• Facilitate alignment, decision-making, and shared understanding of priorities and objectives.

• Communicate priorities, progress, risks, dependencies, and impacts to stakeholders.

• Gather feedback and recommend improvements that enhance product effectiveness and user experience.

• Perform other related duties as required or assigned. What You’ll Need

We value passion, energy, and enthusiasm to ignite transformation in our industry., * Bachelor’s degree from a fully accredited four-year institution or equivalent work experience.

• 5+ years of experience in product management, business analysis, technology delivery, or a related field.

• Experience working within Agile delivery environments.

• Experience translating business needs into product capabilities and technology solutions.

• Strong knowledge of product ownership, backlog management, and Agile delivery practices.

• Experience gathering requirements, analyzing workflows, and designing solutions.

• Ability to develop user stories and define acceptance criteria.

• Strong prioritization, tradeoff analysis, and decision-making skills.

• Experience engaging stakeholders and collaborating across cross-functional teams.

• Knowledge of product health management, including technical debt, operational risk, and product lifecycle considerations.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.

• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.

• Working knowledge of Azure DevOps, collaboration tools, and software delivery processes.

• Ability to translate business needs into clear, actionable requirements for delivery teams.

• The salary range for this position is $106,190 - $132,000 annually.
• The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate’s relevant experience, education, training, certifications, qualifications, and work location.
• Available employee benefits include health, vision, dental coverage, along with industry-leading retirement and time off programs.

What You Can Expect:

• Strongwork/life flexibility.
• To be surrounded by aninclusiveteam who is collaborative and committed to the achievement of the company.
• To be rewarded for your contributions with atargeted annual company bonusandannual salary reviews.
• Competitivepay and benefits.

We are ChemPoint.We are fanatical about every customer and supplier interaction and dedicated to reaching customers and delivering actionable insights to enable producer success. We’re the leader in the marketing, sales, and distribution of specialty and fine chemicals.ChemPoint represents over 70 suppliers and 220 product lines in North America, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa.

We offer a Total Rewards package that includes market aligned pay and incentives as well as a diverse benefits offering to support our employees’ physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.

Start your career journey with ChemPoint! Be part of our team that is transforming the chemical, ingredient, and industrial finished products industry., ChemPoint supports sustainable solutions for the world around us so that we can do our part to help keep our communities healthy, fed, clean, and safe!

We are committed to a diverse workforce and a culture of inclusion.Together, we are building a culture that acknowledges and respects the unique experiences, perspectives, and expertise of every employee. Through our dedicated Employee Resource Networks, we provide the development and growth opportunities to empower us to redefine our industry while making a difference in our communities.