AI-Driven SaaS Product Owner

ForeUP Golf; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Xplor Technologies is seeking a Product Owner/Associate to collaborate with product and development teams, clients, and stakeholders to steer product direction. You will translate business prospects into a polished backlog and coordinate with engineering and data teams to introduce AI-powered features responsibly.

The role emphasizes communicating product vision, prioritizing backlogs, and guiding Scrum ceremonies while balancing customer value and market expansion across our SaaS portfolio.

Qualifications

• BS/MS degree in Business, Engineering, or related field preferred.
• 3+ years’ work experience as product owner, business analyst or subject matter expert in SaaS software applications preferred.
• Excellent oral and written communicator up, down, across and outside the organization.
• Strong critical thinking, analytical and data-driven decision-making skills.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with a strong sense of urgency and accountability.
• Experience with bug/issue/enhancement tracking, project management software.
• Excels in ability to prioritize, influence decisions/decision makers, and handle objections.
• Excellent active listening, negotiation, communication, and presentation skills.
• Ability to manage numerous diverse projects and multi-task with ease.
• Experience with JIRA, Productboard, Pendo, and/or Figma a plus.
• Experience defining or shipping AI-powered product features, or working closely with data science/ML teams, a plus.
• Comfortable evaluating AI tools and vendors, weighing their capabilities and limitations, and translating them into clear customer value.
• Hands-on experience writing AI skills, skill chains, or agentic workflows to streamline day-to-day work such as research, spec writing, and backlog grooming a plus.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Owner of the products; ensure products are meeting and exceeding the needs of external customers and prospects to expand addressable market and reduce/eliminate churn as well as internal stakeholders to allow for ease of implementation and support.
• Maintain focus on technological trends and competitive landscape to drive innovation.
• Identify opportunities to apply AI and automation within the product to improve efficiency, personalization, and decision-making for customers and internal users.
• Own the creation and grooming of the product backlog by writing and refining user stories that support sprint goals and align with product strategy.
• Serve as the Gatekeeper of the product backlog and primary feedback loop owner regarding product enhancements, issues, bugs and/or tasks related to the products.
• Escalate and timely communicate issues, related updates, and resolutions to internal stakeholders as appropriate.
• Share and contribute meaningful ideas to achieve overall product success, while balancing needs of external customers, expansion of addressable market, ease to support and implement, and churn reduction in mind.
• Coordinate with product leadership, customers, and team to complete research, develop specifications and user stories for the developers that satisfy business requirements and align with the business value.
• Partner with engineering and data teams to define requirements, success metrics, and guardrails for AI-powered features, and communicate what those capabilities can and can't do to internal stakeholders and customers.

Skills

Communication skills

Critical thinking

Data-driven decisions

AI features

JIRA

Productboard

Pendo

Figma

Education

BS/MS degree in Business, Engineering, or related field

Tools

JIRA

Productboard

Pendo

Figma

Job description

Xplor Technologies is seeking a Product Owner/Associate to collaborate with product and development teams, clients, and stakeholders to steer product direction. You will translate business prospects into a polished backlog and coordinate with engineering and data teams to introduce AI-powered features responsibly.

The role emphasizes communicating product vision, prioritizing backlogs, and guiding Scrum ceremonies while balancing customer value and market expansion across our SaaS portfolio.