Associate Product Owner

Associate Product Owner

This is a unique opportunity for an early-career product professional to gain exposure to advanced technologies like AI/ML, cloud-native platforms, and high-performance computing. You'll contribute to meaningful product decisions, collaborate with highly technical teams, and help shape solutions used by sophisticated enterprise and scientific users.

The Associate Product Owner helps shape the future of our AI- and HPC-powered platform for scientific computing. This role sits at the intersection of customer insight, emerging technology, and platform architecture, helping inform what we build next. You will play a critical role in translating user needs and technical possibilities into actionable product direction. In this role, you will ensure our platform evolves to meet the needs of advanced users across life sciences, data science, and engineering domains.

Key responsibilities include supporting early-stage product discovery and planning for platform capabilities, particularly in HPC and AI/ML workloads; acting as the "voice of the market" during roadmap planning and backlog grooming; collaborating with product, engineering, and architecture teams to translate vision into execution; staying current on emerging technologies and contributing to platform direction; engaging with clients and internal stakeholders to support product design and development; facilitating Agile sprint ceremonies and supporting SDLC processes from discovery through release; assisting with product UAT, KPI reporting, regulatory documentation, and client-facing instructional materials; developing and maintaining user journey maps; structuring, documenting, and modeling product requirements; evaluating solution options and estimating business value; analyzing and managing changes to requirements and designs; building strong partnerships across product, engineering, and design teams.

Note: This description is not all-inclusive; additional responsibilities may be assigned.

Qualifications include 2+ years of product management experience, including focus on platform or infrastructure products; experience in a B2B, SaaS, or enterprise environment with technical users; demonstrable technical and business writing skills; proficiency at requirements analysis; ability to evaluate and frame technical trade-offs with architects and engineering leaders; proficiency in using process maps and other visual diagram tools to model requirements and processes; strong discovery, prioritization, and roadmap development capabilities; confident communicator, skilled at simplifying complex concepts for diverse stakeholders; ability to work both independently and as part of a highly capable team.

Education and experience include a 4-year college degree (technical or quantitative science) or equivalent work experience with evidence of proficiency and achievement in software engineering, infrastructure management, and programming languages. Additional training, certification, and/or experience in virtualized infrastructure-related tasks is preferred. Experience working in and across cross-disciplinary teams including engineering, systems administration, networking, and security functions. Familiarity with AI/ML toolchains and workflows a plus. Experience with the full software development lifecycle and delivery using Agile practices or similar credentials preferred. Additional training and/or certification in virtualized infrastructure and information security are preferred. Experience building and maintaining dashboards in Jira and Google Suite a plus. Project Management experience a plus. Adept with Atlassian product suite and ZenQMS a plus. Fluency with Google Suite or MS Office. Proficiency using Mac OS preferred.

The job frequently requires working at a computer terminal, standing or sitting, and the ability to operate the computer with proficiency. The work environment is quiet with no adverse conditions.

Metrum Research Group is an equal opportunity employer. MetrumRG is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs, and we prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. MetrumRG is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and reasonable accommodations for candidates and employees with disabilities. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply for positions within our organization.