IT Product Owner

The Fresh Market & You:

Our mission is to make everyday eating extraordinary for our guests. We create a warm, welcoming, memorable experience with exceptional, personal service . We’re looking for a new team member who strives for excellence and brings positive energy, commitment, and a “can-do” attitude to work every day . We value teamwork and celebrate our successes as a team and will value your contribution!

 Added Benefits for choosing The Fresh Market Team:

• Team member discount up to 40%
• Health, Dental & Vision insurance available for individual, spouse, partner, and family.
• 401K contribution and match for part-time and full-time team members.
• Personal time off and additional time off purchase plans available
• And much more!

About the Position:

The IT Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the business value of technology solutions within the marketing, digital engagement, and customer experience domain by partnering with Marketing to translate its product vision into an actionable technology roadmap and product backlog. This role serves as the primary liaison between Marketing and IT, facilitating delivery, managing the backlog, and ensuring technology initiatives align with Marketing's strategic objectives and priorities. Working closely with Marketing, Digital Commerce, Loyalty, and E-Commerce teams, the Product Owner leverages technical expertise to identify opportunities, recommend solutions, and help deliver scalable, customer-centric capabilities that support customer acquisition, engagement, retention, and revenue growth.

Success in this role will be measured by the consistent delivery of meaningful business value, such as increased customer engagement, loyalty participation, digital conversion, campaign effectiveness, and E-Commerce growth. This includes maintaining strong stakeholder satisfaction and alignment across Marketing and IT partners, ensuring backlogs and requirements are clear, well-defined, and delivery-ready. The role is also evaluated on predictability and timeliness of delivery, as well as the adoption, usability, and overall effectiveness of solutions once implemented.

What You'll Do:

• Collaborate with Marketing to translate its product vision, strategic roadmap, and prioritized backlog into actionable technology initiatives, maintaining the IT backlog and ensuring delivery aligns with Marketing's priorities.
• Prioritize work to drive key outcomes such as customer acquisition, loyalty growth, digital engagement, personalization, customer retention, and E-Commerce growth.
• Elicit, analyze, and document business requirements; translate them into clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Serve as the marketing technology domain expert across systems supporting loyalty programs, customer communications, personalization, digital marketing, customer data, and customer-facing experiences.
• Partner with Marketing, Digital Commerce, E-Commerce, Loyalty, and IT teams to align technology solutions with business objectives and customer needs.
• Lead backlog refinement, support sprint planning, and accept completed work based on defined criteria.
• Support release planning, dependencies, and risk management with delivery teams.
• Validate solutions to ensure they meet business requirements and deliver expected value.
• Facilitate stakeholder communication, workshops, and alignment across cross-functional teams.
• Use data and performance metrics to inform decisions and drive continuous improvement.

Qualifications:

At a minimum, what you’ll need:

• 5+ years of experience in Product Owner, Business Analyst, Business Systems, or IT Delivery roles.
• Strong experience in requirements elicitation, process mapping, and translating business needs into technical solutions.
• Proven experience working in Agile / Scrum environments.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with business and technical teams.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in retail, grocery, E-Commerce, or multi-location environments with a strong emphasis on marketing, loyalty, customer engagement, or digital experiences.
• Hands-on experience with marketing technology platforms, loyalty systems, customer data platforms (CDPs), personalization tools, email/SMS marketing platforms, or customer engagement solutions.
• Product Owner or Agile certification (CSPO, SAFe PO/PM) and/or Business Analysis certification (CBAP, CCBA).
• Familiarity with SaaS platforms, system integrations, and data-driven products.
• Experience supporting website, mobile application, loyalty, analytics, digital marketing, or customer experience platforms.

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS: Consistent with applicable laws, TFM will make reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants and team members, unless doing so would result in an undue hardship to TFM. This guiding principle applies to all aspects of employment, including hiring and job assignment, compensation, discipline, termination, and access to benefits and training.  

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer:

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy and related medical conditions, national origin, genetic information, uniformed service, veteran status, disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal or state law. 

The statements in this job description are provided to describe the general nature and level of work expected in this role. While these statements include the essential functions of the job, they are not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required. As we work as a team, there may be times team members are needed to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities based on business needs.

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