Lead, Search & Catalog Delivery

XAXIS Solutions Inc.; Springfield (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

XAXIS Solutions Inc. seeks an experienced Product Owner to drive discovery and delivery of search/catalog capabilities for a B2B automotive platform, partnering with Discovery PMs, engineering leads, and QA.

You will translate roadmap intent into sprint-ready stories and own backlog hygiene for timely releases across API and frontend workstreams. You will bridge product intent with engineering execution in a fast-paced Agile environment, coordinating with stakeholders and ensuring acceptance

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Product Owner or Business Analyst experience in e-commerce, enterprise SaaS, or digital platform delivery.
• Hands-on experience writing user stories and acceptance criteria (BDD format) for complex, API-integrated product features in JIRA and Confluence.
• Strong understanding of product listing and detail page experiences — attribute management, pricing display, availability logic, and catalog data requirements.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum environments — sprint planning, grooming, standups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Ability to collaborate directly with API and frontend engineering teams on technical requirements, integration specifications, and defect resolution.
• Strong attention to detail — ability to manage large backlogs across multiple epics concurrently without losing story quality or prioritization clarity.
• Excellent communication skills — able to manage stakeholder expectations, surface blockers clearly, and keep delivery moving.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the sprint backlog for the search and catalog discovery workstream — covering parts search, vehicle selection, catalog lookup, product listing pages, product detail pages, pricing and availability, part interchange, kits, and stock order workflows.
• Break epics and features into well-structured, sprint-ready user stories with clear acceptance criteria, edge cases, and definition of ready and done.
• Facilitate backlog grooming sessions with engineering (API and frontend tracks), architects, QA, and internal stakeholders — ensuring stories are technically unambiguous before sprint entry.
• Maintain traceability from business requirements through to stories, test cases, and release notes.
• Keep the backlog current, prioritized, and aligned to the Discovery PM's roadmap direction at all times.
• Work within the team's Agile delivery model — supporting the end-to-end pipeline from story sign-off through technical design, development, integration, testing, and production release.
• Track feature progress at the task level across API build, frontend build, integration, QA, and bug-fix cycles.
• Support sprint ceremonies — planning, daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives — ensuring the team maintains delivery velocity and transparency.
• Coordinate stakeholder touchpoints per feature — ensuring the right reviewers and approvers are engaged at the right stages of the delivery pipeline.
• Manage JIRA as the single source of truth — story status, acceptance criteria, defect linkage, and release tracking.
• Translate Discovery PM direction into executable delivery items across search and catalog features — parts search, vehicle-based lookup, catalog enrichment, PLP and PDP attributes, pricing and availability, part interchange, kits, and stock order initiation.
• Validate acceptance criteria against professional buyer workflows — ensuring stories correctly reflect shop, vehicle, fitment, pricing, and ordering scenarios.
• Support data model design reviews and API specification walkthroughs as part of the technical design gate process.
• Work with the search platform team to define and validate relevance, ranking, and catalog quality requirements at the story level.
• Coordinate UAT preparation — test data setup, test case review, and defect triage.
• Ensure each feature meets integration and end-to-end gate requirements before advancing to regression and user acceptance testing.
• Partner with QA to define test scenarios that cover edge cases, fitment logic, pricing rules, and catalog data quality.
• Support post-launch monitoring — tracking defect resolution, feature adoption, and catalog quality metrics in the immediate post-release window.

Skills

Backlog management

Story writing

BDD acceptance criteria

Stakeholder coordination

Agile/Scrum

API/frontend collaboration

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

XAXIS Solutions Inc. seeks an experienced Product Owner to drive discovery and delivery of search/catalog capabilities for a B2B automotive platform, partnering with Discovery PMs, engineering leads, and QA.

You will translate roadmap intent into sprint-ready stories and own backlog hygiene for timely releases across API and frontend workstreams. You will bridge product intent with engineering execution in a fast-paced Agile environment, coordinating with stakeholders and ensuring acceptance