Product Manager — SaaS Backlog & Launch Champion

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

Job summary

Olly Olly is seeking a Product Manager in the United States to translate product strategy and customer needs into actionable work for engineering teams. You will own backlog quality, write detailed requirements, and support refinement and launch planning across Product, Engineering, and Design teams.

The ideal candidate is highly organized, execution-oriented, and comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment where clarity and collaboration matter.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of experience in a Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, or similar product delivery role.
• Experience working closely with software engineering teams in agile environments.
• Strong ability to write user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and functional requirements.
• Demonstrated skill in backlog management, prioritization, and cross-functional coordination.
• Strong communication and organizational skills with high attention to detail.
• Ability to operate in ambiguity and bring structure to fast-moving environments.
• Comfortable balancing strategic context with hands-on execution.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain a healthy, prioritized product backlog aligned to company priorities.
• Break down initiatives into epics, stories, acceptance criteria, and implementation-ready requirements.
• Partner closely with engineering to ensure work is clearly scoped, refined, and sequenced.
• Ensure the team is working on the highest-impact opportunities with minimal ambiguity.
• Support sprint planning, backlog refinement, and delivery follow-through.
• Translate product direction into actionable requirements and user stories.
• Ensure work moves through a clear product development lifecycle from discovery to launch.
• Identify dependencies, risks, edge cases, and operational considerations early.
• Partner with design to ensure workflows and requirements are grounded in real user needs.
• Help drive launch readiness, user acceptance testing, and post-launch learning.
• Work closely with Product, Engineering, Design, Customer Success, Operations, and other internal stakeholders.
• Gather input from stakeholders and customers to shape requirements and priorities.
• Facilitate alignment when tradeoffs are needed across scope, timing, and quality.
• Act as a connective tissue between strategy and execution across teams.
• Raise the bar on requirement quality, acceptance criteria, and release readiness.
• Help create more discipline around prioritization, backlog health, documentation, and execution.
• Support consistent processes for intake, triage, refinement, and launch planning.
• Identify opportunities to improve how teams collaborate and deliver product outcomes.

Skills

Product management

Agile development

User stories

Backlog management

Cross-functional coordination

Communication

Stakeholder management

Documentation

Attention to detail

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Figma

Analytics platforms

Job description

Olly Olly is seeking a Product Manager in the United States to translate product strategy and customer needs into actionable work for engineering teams. You will own backlog quality, write detailed requirements, and support refinement and launch planning across Product, Engineering, and Design teams.

The ideal candidate is highly organized, execution-oriented, and comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment where clarity and collaboration matter.