Internal Product Owner: Own Backlog & Delivery

Ascentium Talent Solutions PH Inc.; Pampanga; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascentium Talent Solutions PH Inc. is seeking a Product Owner to sit inside one delivery team and own what that team builds next. This internal-facing role sits with design and engineering from the first sketch and through incremental delivery.

You will own the what and the why while keeping the how within the team, ensuring continuous delivery and accountability for outcomes rather than documentation.

Qualifications

• Evidence of owning a backlog for a delivery team.
• Able to turn large, vague work into slices that ship value.
• Fluency with relative estimation and avoiding time-based commitments.
• Writing precise requirements and acceptance criteria under pressure.
• Comfortable working inside a team as a member, not a presenter.
• Experience collaborating with designers as problem solvers, not as a service.
• Willingness to be measured by shipped outcomes, not backlog polish.
• Based near Clark, Pampanga, or willing to relocate; this is an on-site role.

Responsibilities

• Own One Team's Backlog: classify, size, value-score, and prioritize work.
• Straddle Problem and Solution: define problem, audience, and outcome; keep the how with the team.
• Work With Design, Not Downstream of It: collaborate with embedded designer from framing onward.
• Decompose, Size, and Sequence: break work into complete, shippable units.
• Set an Acceptance Bar that Is Verified, Not Ticked: define testable criteria and confirm outcomes.
• Groom for Agents as well as for People: write unambiguous scope for AI and humans.
• Iterate Towards Delivery: stay with build, review, and release; adjust as learning emerges.
• Hold the Boundary With Product Management: clarify ownership and external commitments.

Skills

Backlog ownership

Agile

Problem solving

Designer collaboration

Relative estimation

Team collaboration

Technical literacy

Tools

ClickUp

GitHub Issues

Job description

Ascentium Talent Solutions PH Inc. is seeking a Product Owner to sit inside one delivery team and own what that team builds next. This internal-facing role sits with design and engineering from the first sketch and through incremental delivery.

You will own the what and the why while keeping the how within the team, ensuring continuous delivery and accountability for outcomes rather than documentation.