IT - Product Owner

Job Description

Job Description

INTRODUCTION

A & Associates is a reputable staffing agency with a proven track record in screening and recruiting as well as job placement and career development. With more than ten (10) offices throughout the United States, A & Associates is a company that can be trusted to provide a diverse level of services with excellence, diligence and integrity. “Quality In Everything We Do” is far more than our mantra, it is our standard!!

Explore a career with A & Associates, one of the leading providers for temporary, temp-to-hire, permanent placement services and security guard services.

• Location: Dallas, TX
• Work Authorization: U.S. Citizen  or Green Card Holder
• Work Preference: Open to  Hybrid and  On-site opportunities

Job Summary:

The Senior Product Owner serves as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and Agile delivery teams, ensuring that strategic priorities are translated into actionable work that delivers measurable business value.

Working under the direction of a Product Manager, this role is responsible for managing and prioritizing team backlogs, defining product requirements, facilitating delivery execution, and supporting continuous improvement across Scrum and Kanban teams. The Senior Product Owner collaborates closely with stakeholders, developers, architects, business analysts, UX designers, and Scrum Masters to ensure solutions align with organizational goals and customer needs.

This position requires extensive experience operating within Agile environments and supporting multiple delivery teams while balancing competing priorities, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations.

Responsibilities

Product Backlog Management:

Own and manage team backlogs, ensuring alignment with product roadmaps and strategic priorities established by Product Management.

Collaborate with Product Managers to translate initiatives, business objectives, and stakeholder needs into epics and user stories.

Prioritize backlog items based on business value, risk, dependencies, and team capacity.

Ensure backlog items are well-defined, estimated, and ready for development.

Maintain backlog health through ongoing refinement and refinement activities.

Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring alignment with business objectives and user outcomes.

Agile Delivery Leadership:

Support Scrum and Kanban teams throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Participate in Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Reviews, Retrospectives, and Kanban replenishment activities.

Provide timely clarification of requirements and acceptance criteria to delivery teams.

Review completed work and formally accept delivered functionality.

Ensure delivered solutions meet business objectives and stakeholder expectations.

Requirements & Stakeholder Management:

Facilitate discovery sessions, requirement workshops, journey mapping sessions, and stakeholder interviews.

Elicit and document business requirements, workflows, business rules, and process improvements.

Serve as the primary point of contact for stakeholder questions regarding product requirements and priorities.

Build consensus among stakeholders and assist with prioritization decisions.

Communicate delivery status, risks, and dependencies to Product Managers and leadership.

Product Planning & Coordination:

Partner with Product Managers to support roadmap planning and release forecasting.

Assist in identifying and managing dependencies across teams and initiatives.

Coordinate user acceptance testing activities and stakeholder validation efforts.

Support release readiness activities and production deployment planning.

Track technical debt, operational support needs, and enhancement requests as part of backlog prioritization.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field.

Minimum five (5) years of experience serving as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, Product Lead, or similar role in Agile environments.

Minimum three (3) years of experience supporting Scrum and/or Kanban delivery teams.

Demonstrated experience managing product backlogs in Jira or similar Agile management platforms.

Experience writing epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and business requirements.

Strong understanding of Agile principles, Scrum framework, Kanban practices, and Lean delivery concepts.

Experience facilitating stakeholder workshops, backlog refinement sessions, and prioritization activities.

Strong communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.

Ability to manage competing priorities across multiple products or initiatives.

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO), SAFe POPM, or equivalent preferred.

Proficiency in product management tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps, Trello, Confluence, Figma, Miro).

Excellent leadership, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.

Ability to make data-driven decisions using analytics and customer feedback.

Experience managing enterprise IT products or digital transformation projects.

Additional Requirements

Ability to work in a fast-paced, evolving technology environment.

Must possess a valid Texas Driver’s License and maintain a good driving record.

Compliance with relevant County regulations and background checks.

EEO STATEMENT

A & Associates, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Work Location: In person