Senior Software Product Owner Hybrid Oakland, CA - US
Energy SolutionsOakland, California
Full Time
Posted September 26, 2025
$107k - $140k
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Job Description
The Senior Software Product Owner will lead the development and management of complex software ecosystems, translating business needs into technical solutions, implementing Agile processes, and guiding a team of product owners and analysts to deliver value across multiple platforms and stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead assessment of product opportunities and risks, including providing cost estimates
- Implement and improve Agile processes in a hybrid planning environment
- Manage and prioritize a complex product backlog in collaboration with stakeholders
- Design products by preparing functional specifications and guiding prototyping
- Translate customer needs into actionable plans for engineering and design teams
- Establish and maintain product roadmaps and monitor platform health and initiatives
- Meet with stakeholders to discuss application functionality and provide feedback
- Own and refine user stories and epics in Jira to translate requirements into actionable work
- Monitor software development progress to ensure business expectations are met
- Define product metrics to optimize product effectiveness
- Lead efforts to develop and coach product owners and business analysts
Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or other engineering degree.
- 10 years of experience as a product owner successfully delivering multiple products through a complete Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC) lifecycle.
- 10 years of experience working with software developers, understanding the process of effective delivery and release of software.
- Leadership experience managing small teams of 3 to 5 junior product owners and business system analysts.
- Good technical analyst skills translating business needs into technical specifications.
- Proven experience in working on data-focused product development and a good understanding of defining KPIs for product development.
- Strong communication skills, especially effective communication between non-technical users and software developers.
- Experience managing a complex backlog in collaboration with business and technology stakeholders, including building a standardized process for managing backlog and future work requests.
- Experience leading assessment of product opportunities and risks, including providing cost estimates.
- Experience implementing and improving Agile processes in a hybrid planning environment.
- Ability to manage and prioritize product features and end-to-end ownership, including translating customer needs into actionable plans for engineering and design teams.
- Experience preparing well-documented functional specifications and workflows, guiding product prototyping and proof of concepts.
- Ability to establish and maintain product roadmaps, including platform health and customer initiatives.
- Experience meeting with business stakeholders to discuss application functionality related to enterprise-wide or specific program initiatives due to contractual agreements.
- Experience conducting or participating in meetings to identify requirements and providing feedback to ensure technology applications support customer needs.
- Ownership and refinement of user stories and epics in Jira, translating product requirements into actionable work for development teams.
- Monitoring progress of software development efforts to ensure business expectations are met and barriers minimized.
- Communicating status and results of product development efforts across the organization.
- Leading efforts to define product metrics to optimize product effectiveness.
- Experience coaching other product owners and business systems analysts.
- Physical or logistical ability to work onsite at one of the company’s offices at least 1 day per week (currently Wednesdays) with flexibility for additional days.
- Ability to perform background checks, including a drug screen and work authorization in the U.S. indefinitely.
Benefits & Perks
Salary range of 107,000 to 140,000 USD, with a target of 126,000 USD
Hybrid work schedule with at least 1 day per week onsite (Wednesdays)
Generous retirement package
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Pre-tax contribution plans
Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
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