Associate Product Owner

Description

Are you mission-driven and passionate about helping others succeed?

Do you strive to lead, follow, and act with integrity?

Are you the one who honors your commitments?

Is building trusting relationships an integral part of why you do what you do?

Do you push limits and challenge the status quo?

If you answered YES , keep reading to discover how you can significantly contribute to Team USA's success!

Here's a summary of responsibilities:

We're looking for a motivated and detail-oriented Associate Product Owner to join our team. In this role, you'll be a key player in bridging the gap between business needs and technical solutions. You'll work closely with stakeholders, participating in discovery to understand their challenges, and with technical teams to deliver high-quality, impactful solutions.

Here’s how you’ll have an impact:

Product Ownership

• Participate in agile ceremonies such as backlog grooming and sprint planning to support implementation of new functionality.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for our technology applications, ensuring they meet the needs of our business users.
• Assist with product roadmaps, prioritizing features and enhancements to align with business goals.
• Manage user access, governance and application configuration to support business needs.
• Coordinate communication and feedback between stakeholders and technical teams.

Business Systems Analysis

• Work directly with stakeholders to gather requirements, conduct process mapping, and translate business needs into detailed user stories.
• Act as a liaison between internal business partners and the technical teams to ensure the best solutions are possible, determined, and implemented.
• Facilitate quality assurance (QA) and user acceptance testing (UAT) to ensure solutions meet requirements.
• Create and maintain clear documentation for applications and new features.
• Develop and deliver training to new and existing users.

Agile Project Delivery

• Support agile methodologies (kanban/scrum) to manage work in progress and track milestones.
• Facilitate the implementation of new features and products, from planning to launch.
• Monitor and communicate project statuses to stakeholders, ensuring alignment across teams and divisions.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Here are the skills and experience you'll need to be effective:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or Computer/IT-related field or equivalent work experience
• 2+ years of business system analysis (or related) work preferred
• Experience with Agile methodology
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently.
• Proven ability in organizing, specifying and modeling requirements to ensure completeness and unambiguity
• Ability to quickly understand business operations
• Critical thinking skills
• Conflict resolution
• Adaptable to new types of stakeholders and technology
• Exceptionally organized
• Effective communicator
• Ability to participate as an active listener

Here are the tools, equipment, & conditions:

• Office environment in multi-story building on multi-building site
• Standard office equipment
• Ability to move/lift 50 pounds
• Some domestic and international travel, possibly for extended periods of time during Games
• Non-traditional work hours including evenings, weekends, and holidays
• Regular attendance at work is an essential job function

Here's where you'll work:

Colorado Springs Downtown Headquarters/ Hybrid

Here's some more information you need to know:

• Hiring pay range $63,500 - $65,000 per year.
• This Full-Time, Exempt position is intended to work 40 hours per week.
• Bonus: This position will be eligible for the Annual Incentive Award Program, which has a 10% target. The USOPC may change or eliminate this program at any time at its sole discretion.
• Benefits: This position will be eligible for USOPC benefits. You can view a summary here.

This job posting will close 12:00pm MT on 10/5/2026