AI-First Enterprise Product Owner

ENFOS, Inc.; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

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Job summary

ENFOS, Inc. in the United States seeks a Product Owner to drive backlog execution and delivery for a defined product area, partnering with Engineering, QA, UX, and business stakeholders to ship enterprise software.

The ideal candidate translates ambiguous, high-stakes problems into clear requirements, measurable outcomes, and scalable workflows, with an AI-first mindset integrated into product development and governance for audit-grade systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, or similar role within enterprise B2B SaaS or complex business applications
• Proven track record owning backlogs and delivering enterprise software with Engineering, QA, and UX teams
• Strong Agile/Scrum expertise including backlog management, refinement, acceptance criteria, and sprint execution
• Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into clear requirements and measurable outcomes
• Strong analytical skills and comfort working with usage data, SQL, BI tools, and metrics-driven prioritization
• Demonstrated AI-first mindset and experience using AI tools to accelerate product work
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills across technical and business audiences
• Strong ownership mentality and bias for action
• Comfort working directly with enterprise customers and stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Own backlog prioritization and delivery for a defined product area, translating strategy into clear, executable work for Engineering and QA
• Write clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and Definitions of Done
• Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives, making clear scope and trade-off decisions
• Prioritize using product usage data, customer feedback, support themes, and revenue impact
• Document prioritization rationale and key product decisions
• Partner with Engineering on solution design, sequencing, dependencies, and technical trade-offs
• Partner with QA on test strategy, regression risk, edge cases, and release readiness
• Partner with UX to simplify complex workflows and validate designs with customers
• Lead story-level discovery, clarify requirements, and break large initiatives into shippable increments
• Own release readiness, including release notes and internal enablement for Customer Success and Support
• Help shape AI-native features including assistants, anomaly detection, document intelligence, and intelligent automation
• Define AI acceptance criteria and guardrails, including traceability, evaluation, and human oversight appropriate for audit-grade systems
• Use AI tools daily to accelerate story writing, requirements analysis, customer feedback synthesis, and release communications
• Stay current on relevant AI patterns including LLMs, agents, retrieval, and evaluation frameworks
• Instrument what we ship, define success metrics upfront, and measure post-release outcomes
• Engage customers through interviews, usability sessions, and in-app communications
• Partner with Customer Success, Support, Onboarding, and Sales to validate priorities and convert feedback into product improvements
• Collaborate across Finance, Accounting, and Operations teams and subject-matter experts to ensure regulatory and audit alignment
• Communicate priorities, progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly to stakeholders
• You will be evaluated on: Customer and business outcomes delivered by your product area, Backlog clarity, sprint predictability, and delivery execution, Product quality, audit defensibility, and AI traceability, Cross-functional collaboration with Engineering, QA, UX, Customer Success, and stakeholders
• What You’ll Need: 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, or similar role within enterprise B2B SaaS or complex business applications
• Proven track record owning backlogs and delivering enterprise software with Engineering, QA, and UX teams
• Strong Agile/Scrum expertise including backlog management, refinement, acceptance criteria, and sprint execution
• Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into clear requirements and measurable outcomes
• Strong analytical skills and comfort working with usage data, SQL, BI tools, and metrics-driven prioritization
• Demonstrated AI-first mindset and experience using AI tools to accelerate product work
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills across technical and business audiences
• Strong ownership mentality and bias for action
• Comfort working directly with enterprise customers and stakeholders
• Preferred: Experience operating across multiple Scrum teams or coordinating shared dependencies in a platform environment
• Experience in finance, accounting, ERP, GRC, audit, or other regulated enterprise SaaS domains
• Experience shipping AI/ML-enabled features, including evaluation and human-in-the-loop design

Skills

Product ownership

Agile/Scrum

AI‑first mindset

SQL

BI tools

Communication

Stakeholder management

Tools

SQL

BI tools

Job description

ENFOS, Inc. in the United States seeks a Product Owner to drive backlog execution and delivery for a defined product area, partnering with Engineering, QA, UX, and business stakeholders to ship enterprise software.

The ideal candidate translates ambiguous, high-stakes problems into clear requirements, measurable outcomes, and scalable workflows, with an AI-first mindset integrated into product development and governance for audit-grade systems.