Senior Product Owner — Pittsburgh, PA

zfnmFsx - Empowering Your Career. As a leading IT staffing firm, we are dedicated to connecting talented professionals with your ideal opportunities. We are currently seeking a qualified Senior Product Owner to join our client’s organization and contribute to their ongoing success.

Job summary

The Senior Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value delivered by assigned products and platforms by translating business strategy and stakeholder needs into a prioritized product backlog. Working closely with business stakeholders, software engineering, quality assurance, and user experience teams, the Senior Product Owner defines and prioritizes features, makes scope and trade-off decisions, and ensures that development efforts are aligned with organizational goals and customer needs.

Responsibilities:

• Working directly with business stakeholders, customers, and technical teams, defines product vision, goals, and priorities for assigned products and platforms

• Owns, prioritizes, and maintains the product backlog in Jira, ensuring that epics, features, and user stories are well defined and aligned with business objectives

• Collaborates with Business Analysts and technical teams to refine requirements and acceptance criteria into actionable work items

• Independently evaluates competing priorities and makes decisive scope and trade-off decisions, balancing business value, technical complexity, dependencies, and resource constraints

• Participates actively in Agile and Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives

• Reviews and accepts completed work to ensure that delivered functionality meets business requirements and quality expectations

Requirements:

• Experience in business analysis, product ownership, or a related discipline

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments

• Demonstrated experience owning and prioritizing product backlogs

• Strong understanding of software development life cycle and Agile methodologies

• Experience with Jira and Confluence or similar tools

• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills

• Ability to write clear user stories and acceptance criteria

• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or equivalent certification

• Experience with SQL, analytics, or reporting tools

At zfnmFsx, we prioritize your career success and strive to build exceptional technical teams for our clients. By understanding your experience and aspirations, we ensure to present you with rewarding and fulfilling opportunities.

As an employee of zfnmFsx and our clients, you will be eligible to participate in a comprehensive benefits package.

zfnmFsx is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.