[Hiring] Product Owner @Appriss Retail

Role Description

You'll own the Build & Deliver phases of our product development lifecycle (PDLC). Once a feature or project is approved and validated, it hands off to you: you break it down, get it into the sprint machine, and drive it cleanly through to release. You are the connective tissue between “we've decided to build this” and “it's live and documented.”

Essential Duties

What you'll own:

• Requirements translation & backlog craft:
  • Translate agile PRDs into clear, granular features, stories, and requirements — with unambiguous acceptance criteria and reproduction steps.
  • Decompose large initiatives into epics, then features, then stories, and single-feature efforts into detailed, buildable requirements.
  • Keep Jira immaculate with every ticket having its required fields filled, correctly categorized, and mapped to the right epic, initiative, release, and quarter.
  • Maintain a clean, groomed backlog with multiple sprints of ready work staged ahead.
• Self-directed delivery & prioritization:
  • Break work down independently, with minimal oversight.
  • Apply sound prioritization and make fast, defensible tradeoffs when stories compete for limited capacity.
  • Triage bugs by real severity and urgency.
• Agile ceremonies & dev collaboration:
  • Solo-run your team's day-to-day scrum ceremonies: refinement, backlog grooming, and daily stand-up.
  • Partner effectively and respectfully with global dev teams.
  • Fluent in scrum best practices and anti-patterns, and in the Definition of Ready / Definition of Done.
  • Know the paths by which a story, feature, or epic is reviewed with and approved by Product before it's cleared for deployment.
• Cross-team coordination:
  • Own day-to-day dependency management across partner teams.
  • Leadership has your back on escalations that require negotiating across competing team priorities.
• Release coordination, readiness & documentation:
  • Coordinate release execution with feature toggles and other phased or hidden-release techniques.
  • Write documentation that ships around a release: release notes, user guides, and internal FAQs.
  • Ensure analytics tagging is scoped into every new development.
• Communication & cross-functional support:
  • Proactively push status updates to need-to-know parties.
  • Proactively surface risks, dependencies, and blockers before they impact delivery.

Qualifications

• 3+ years as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or similar delivery-focused role in an agile software environment.
• Demonstrated skill translating requirements into well-formed epics, features, and stories with clear acceptance criteria.
• Expert-level Jira discipline: field completeness, correct epic/initiative/release/quarter mapping, and relentless backlog hygiene.
• A self-starter's instinct for decomposition, prioritization, tradeoff calls under capacity constraints, and severity-based bug triage.
• Proven track record solo-running complex requirements-review meetings with dev teams.
• Comfort coordinating cross-team dependencies.
• Working knowledge of release mechanics.
• Ability to write, or quickly learn to write, multiple types of product documentation.
• Basic understanding of analytics tagging and why performance measurement matters in product development.
• Excellent written and spoken communication, and a proactive-updates habit.
• Impeccable organization, follow-through, and integrity.
• Currently using AI in your work, or genuinely excited to learn.
• A kind, collaborative, respectful temperament suited to a close team.
• Willingness to travel (approx 15%).

Bonus Points

• Experience specifically building B2B SaaS.
• Retail experience (LP/AP, returns, POS, or similar).
• Experience establishing or maturing a formal sprint-planning practice.
• Technical curiosity with a track record of expanding your knowledge base.

Benefits

• Multiple medical plan options.
• Dental and vision coverage.
• Health savings and flexible spending accounts.
• Paid parental leave.
• Supplemental coverage for life’s unexpected moments.
• Generous paid time off.
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and company match.
• Short- and long-term disability.
• Free access to health and wellbeing resources such as Calm and Sworkit.
• Access to learning and development opportunities.