Senior Product Owner I

What you will do Own and prioritize the product backlog, making clear decisions about sequencing and trade-offs, and keeping the roadmap connected to both business objectives and the wider technology strategy. Build strong relationships with your internal customers in textbook sales and journal advertising sales, translating their needs into well‑defined, valuable work for the delivery team. Lead discovery and validation. Talk to users, interrogate the data, and test assumptions before committing engineering effort. Partner closely with engineers and architects in Sage Technology, developing enough technical understanding of the platform to anticipate delivery risks and shape feasible solutions. Manage competing priorities and cross‑team dependencies within the technology estate, negotiating openly when demands conflict and keeping stakeholders aligned on what is happening and why. Define what success looks like, then measure it. Use adoption data, performance metrics, and user feedback to judge whether changes actually worked. Contribute to the Product Management team's own practice, supporting your delivery team's agile ways of working and mentoring colleagues in good product habits. What you will bring 3-5 years of experience as a product owner, product manager, or in a comparable role, with hands‑on responsibility for a backlog. If your experience sits slightly outside that range but you can show the capability, we would still like to hear from you. A track record of writing clear user stories and acceptance criteria, and running effective refinement with a delivery team. Strong stakeholder management. You can hold your ground with senior people, say no with a reason, and keep relationships intact. Confidence working with data to inform prioritization, and the critical thinking to question what the numbers are actually telling you. Experience working in agile delivery teams, ideally with colleagues in multiple locations and time zones. Genuine curiosity about the business you support and the users you serve. Preferred Requirements Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365, or with another CRM platform such as Salesforce or HubSpot. Background in publishing, higher education, media, or advertising sales. Experience with system integrations, data migration, or the wider Microsoft Power Platform. Experience supporting teams through changes in process or tooling. A product owner or agile certification such as CSPO. Helpful context, not a requirement. Pay Transparency & Benefits Package: Sage Publishing is committed to being an inclusive employer where all individuals are treated with fairness and respect. Sage is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Compensation at Sage is influenced by several factors, including but not limited to skill set, nature and level of experience, qualifications, and other relevant considerations. Please note that the compensation details listed in U.S. role postings reflect the base salary only and do not include bonuses or benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range and additional aspects of the compensation/benefits package for this position during the hiring process. If your desired salary falls outside of this range, we hope you'll still apply as there may be other positions that better align. In addition to compensation, Sage offers a highly competitive and comprehensive PPO medical, dental, and vision care benefits package with SAGE covering most of the premium costs. Unique program benefits that support a healthy life, a company-sponsored anniversary trip every 5 years, a 401(k)-matching program of 100% up to 5% of pay, and other significant meaningful benefits. In alignment with our value for education, Sage offers financial support for bachelor's and graduate-level degree programs as well as learning for personal interest. PPO medical, dental, and vision care benefits package SAGE covering most of the premium costs Unique program benefits that support a healthy life a company-sponsored anniversary trip every 5 years 401(k)-matching program of 100% up to 5% of pay other significant meaningful benefits financial support for bachelor's and graduate-level degree programs learning for personal interest Sage offers freedom and autonomy in your day-to-day with hybrid or remote work, depending on the role. Join the nearly 2,000 Sage employees worldwide who deliver products and services that serve to fulfill our noble goal of education and dissemination of knowledge globally. We’d love to meet you! 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