Product Owner

When you join Accurate Background, you’re an integral part of making every hire the start of a success story. Your contributions will help us fulfill our mission of advancing the background screening experience through visibility and insights, empowering our clients to make smarter, unbiased decisions.Job Description:We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Product Owner to join our dynamic product management team. The Product Owner will play a key role in driving product development, defining product vision, and ensuring that product goals align with business objectives and customer needs. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience working in Agile environments, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, and ensuring timely delivery of high-quality solutions.Responsibilities:Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and agile development teams.Define and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring alignment with the product vision, roadmap, and overall business goals.Collaborate with stakeholders (customers, internal teams, leadership) to gather requirements and translate them into clear and actionable user stories and acceptance criteria.Own and refine the backlog continuously, ensuring it reflects evolving business priorities and customer needs.Lead agile ceremonies including backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and sprint reviews.Drive the agile mindset across teams by promoting incremental delivery, iterative improvements, and customer-centric decision-making.Partner closely with Product Managers, UX designers, and Engineers to deliver high-quality product increments.Support go-to-market activities and contribute to the creation of product documentation, including feature overviews, release notes, internal training materials, and customer-facing collateral.Analyze product performance and customer feedback to identify opportunities for enhancement and innovation.Ensure that delivered features and products meet business requirements and quality standards through acceptance testing and validation.Serve as the voice of the customer, ensuring that all product decisions are rooted in delivering value to end users.Balance business needs with technical feasibility and constraints, facilitating trade-off discussions when necessary.Maintain a clear, transparent, and communicated product vision and roadmap across teams and stakeholders.Qualifications:3+ years of experience as a Product Owner or similar product role within Agile environments (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban).Proven experience managing product backlogs, defining user stories, and working closely with Agile development teams.Strong knowledge of Agile frameworks and methodologies.Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate business needs into technical requirements.Experience using agile tools such as Jira, Confluence, or similar platforms.Demonstrated ability to prioritize competing demands, manage stakeholder expectations, and drive alignment across cross-functional teams.Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on data-driven decision-making.Experience collaborating with UX, engineering, QA, and other teams to deliver high-value solutions.Agile certifications such as Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM), or Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO).Experience in customer-centric product discovery techniques including user research, A/B testing, and design thinking.Familiarity with road mapping tools like Aha!, ProductBoard, or similar.Experience using AI-assisted product tools (e.g., Rovo, Microsoft Copilot, or similar) to support user story creation, requirements definition, backlog refinement, and sprint planning.Demonstrated ability to leverage generative AI to improve clarity, speed, and consistency of product artifacts, including user stories, acceptance criteria, release notes, and planning documentation.Industry experience in Background Screening or Workplace solutions is a plusCore Competencies:Customer Focused: Always representing the voice of the customer.Collaborative: Works effectively across teams and functions.Detail-Oriented: Balances big-picture strategy with execution excellence.Adaptable: Thrives in fast-paced, evolving environments.Leadership: Able to influence without direct authority.The Accurate Way:We offer a fun, fast-paced environment, with lots of room for growth. We have an unwavering commitment to diversity, ensuring everyone has a complete sense of belonging here. To do this, we follow four guiding principles – Take Ownership, Be Open, Stay Curious, Work as One – core values that dictate what we stand for, and how we behave.Take ownership.Be accountable for your actions, your team, and the company. Accept responsibility willingly, especially when it’s what’s best for our customers. Give others every reason to trust you, believe in you, and count on you. Rise to every occasion with your personal best.Be open.Be open to new ideas. Be inclusive of people and ways of doing things. Make yourself accessible and approachable, and communicate with genuineness, transparency, honesty, and respect. Embrace differences.Stay curious.Stay curious even as you move forward. Tirelessly ask questions and challenge the status quo in your pursuit of new ideas, ways to solve problems, and to continually grow and improve.Work as one.Work together to create the best customer and workplace experience. Put our customers and employees first—before individual or departmental agendas. Make sure they get the help they need to succeed.Equal opportunitiesAccurate is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to hiring talented and qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.Accurate will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws.You must have a right to work in Australia indefinitely that does not involve sponsorship by the Company.Special Notice:Accurate is aware of schemes involving fraudulent job postings/offers and/or individuals or entities claiming to be employees of Accurate. Those involved are offering fabricated employment opportunities to applicants, often asking for sensitive personal and financial information. 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