Payments Product Owner - Lead backlog & impact (Remote)

PayJunction; Santa Barbara (CA); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office equipment stipend

Equipment allowance for home office

Flexible work options (remote/office/h

Hybrid work environment

Job summary

PayJunction is seeking a Product Owner to turn product intent into a healthy, shovel-ready flow of work for the engineering team, and to keep that flow moving. The role focuses on owning and ordering the backlog for Payment Experience, breaking initiatives into user stories with clear criteria, and aligning work with company goals.

You will talk to stakeholders across Risk, Support, Sales, and Rev Ops, ensuring the team has the use cases and requirements needed.

Qualifications

• Three or more years as a Product Owner or in a close role (Product Manager, or a business analyst with strong product ownership).
• Two or more years with Agile and Scrum where you drove refinement and backlog health, not just attended.
• Track record of outcome-focused delivery you can point to.
• Direct experience with users and internal stakeholders.
• Have written clean user stories and acceptance criteria, prioritized with explicit criteria, and kept work visible in tools like Jira and Confluence.
• Preferred: experience in payments, fintech, or B2B SaaS; a CSPO or PSPO certification; and comfort reading product data to inform priorities.

Responsibilities

• Own and order the product backlog for Payment Experience so the highest-value work is always at the top and clearly tied to product and company goals.
• Break initiatives and incoming requests into user stories with clear problem statements, acceptance criteria, and identified dependencies.
• Chase down the answers: talk to stakeholders across Risk, Support, Sales, and Rev Ops, and bring back the use cases and requirements the team needs.
• Run backlog refinement every sprint and keep at least two sprints of Ready work in front of the team.
• Act as the single, clear voice between stakeholders and engineering, so nothing disappears and no one is surprised mid-sprint.
• Track adoption and outcomes after release, and use what you learn to adjust priorities.

Skills

Product ownership

Agile & Scrum

Stakeholder communication

User stories & criteria

Jira & Confluence

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

PayJunction is seeking a Product Owner to turn product intent into a healthy, shovel-ready flow of work for the engineering team, and to keep that flow moving. The role focuses on owning and ordering the backlog for Payment Experience, breaking initiatives into user stories with clear criteria, and aligning work with company goals.

You will talk to stakeholders across Risk, Support, Sales, and Rev Ops, ensuring the team has the use cases and requirements needed.