Product Owner

Incident IQ; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision care

401k match

PTO

Job summary

Incident IQ is hiring a Product Owner to redefine how we build software in our FSAD model. You will focus on transforming real K-12 pain points into structured markdown contexts for AI agents and developers, ensuring the why remains intact across the build cycle.

You will work closely with engineers, designers, and customer success to translate user needs into high-quality features, validate UX as it is generated, and drive product launches with clear, data-driven decisions.

Qualifications

• Proficiency with markdown to encode design decisions and product context.
• Experience with product and project management tools (Asana, Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, Miro).
• Strong communication and analytical skills to translate user needs into actionable work.

Responsibilities

• Develop deep empathy for K-12 customer workflows and translate needs into Vision Canvases.
• Embed in the build cycle to validate code and UI alongside engineers and AI agents.
• Own and refine structured markdown context guiding features and acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with design and engineering to ground UX decisions in real user workflows.
• Partner with Customer Success to triage and resolve product issues; support GTM initiatives.

Skills

Exceptional communication

Analytical mindset

AI tools curiosity

Agile/Scrum experience

Markdown proficiency

Tools

Markdown

Asana

Azure DevOps

Jira

Confluence

Miro

Job description

About Us:
Atlanta-based Incident IQ is the leading workflow management platform built exclusively for K-12 districts. Trusted by over 2,000 districts, Incident IQ powers mission-critical services for more than 12 million students and educators nationwide. By connecting technology and operational workflows, Incident IQ enables schools to streamline processes, reduce administrative burdens, and focus on what matters most: supporting students.

Purpose:
Incident IQ is committed to creating a future where every K-12 district operates with seamless efficiency. When operations are unified on a single platform, districts gain the clarity and control needed to build a stronger foundation for student success. We’re focused on delivering the tools, support, and partnerships that help make that vision a reality.

Mission:
Incident IQ is on a mission to eliminate the friction of disconnected systems and clunky workflows that slow schools down. We’re reimagining the critical work that happens behind the scenes, bringing visibility, efficiency, and impact to the processes that keep classrooms running. By streamlining the complex, automating the routine, and surfacing the insights that matter most, we can create the conditions for educators to teach, students to thrive, and districts to shape the future of education.

Product Owner Overview:

At Incident IQ, we are reinventing how software gets built. In our Full Stack Agentic Development (FSAD) model, engineering capacity is no longer the bottleneck, context is. The Product Owner is the person who eliminates that bottleneck. This role is less about managing a backlog and more about becoming the deepest source of customer understanding on the team, translating real K-12 pain points into the structured context that AI agents and developers need to build the right thing, fast.

This means spending less time in traditional Agile ceremonies and more time inside the build cycle, co-creating in real time alongside developers and AI agents, validating output as it is generated, and ensuring the team never loses the “why” behind what they are building. The right candidate brings deep empathy for K-12 customers, the precision to encode that understanding into markdown-based Vision Canvases, and the drive to prove that Human + AI + Dev produces more than the sum of their parts.

The Mindset We’re Looking For:

Technical background matters less than attitude. We are looking for someone who:

• Sees AI as a collaborator, not just a tool, and is excited to plan and work inside AI environments alongside their team.
• Is energized by building new processes, not just following established ones.
• Can execute with discipline in the present while imagining and influencing a better future model.
• Communicates with precision, knowing that clear inputs to AI systems are as important as clear requirements to engineers.
• Thrives in a fast-moving, iterative environment where today’s best practice may be replaced by something better next quarter.

Product Owner Responsibilities:

• Develop deep, firsthand empathy for K-12 customer workflows, becoming the team’s ultimate source of truth on what users need, why they need it, and what “winning” looks like for them.
• Transform customer pain points into high-fidelity Vision Canvases, structured markdown documents that provide the shared context AI agents and developers need to build the right thing without rework or misinterpretation.
• Be present and active inside the build cycle, participating in real-time alongside developers and AI agents, validating code and UI/UX as it is generated rather than reviewing it days later in a handoff.
• Participate in lightweight team cadences focused on outcomes and unblocking, not ceremony. Agile rituals serve the work; the work does not serve the rituals.
• Design for the customer, not for the process, collaborating with designers and engineers to ensure every UX decision is grounded in real user workflows and validated quickly, not debated in planning docs.
• Work closely with Customer Success to identify, triage, and resolve key product issues.
• Support go-to-market initiatives and product launches with internal enablement and external communication.
• Own and continuously sharpen the team’s shared context, ensuring every member of the pod, human and AI, understands the “why” behind every feature well enough to make good decisions independently.
• Map new features and configure dashboards in Incident IQ’s third-party Product Usage Analytics Tool.
• Serve as a product ambassador internally and externally, sharing knowledge, answering questions, and building trust.
• Participate in collaborative AI-driven planning sessions where shared context is established before development begins, ensuring the whole team is aligned inside the same AI environment.
• Author, iterate, and refine structured markdown files that define agent tasks, acceptance criteria, and workflow logic, functioning as the programming language through which product decisions are directly translated into working code.
• Own the quality gate between AI-generated output and what ships, reviewing features, documentation, and test cases against the markdown context you authored to ensure product intent is fully preserved.
• Author and own the structured context, in markdown, that both engineering teammates and AI agents work from, encoding product intent precisely enough that it drives correct outcomes without constant interpretation or handoff.
• Partner with engineering and product leadership to help define and mature Incident IQ’s FSAD methodology as we progress toward a fully agentic development model.
• Remain adaptable as tools, processes, and expectations evolve rapidly, bringing a growth mindset and willingness to experiment, learn, and iterate on how the team works.

Product Owner Requirements:

• A track record of building customer understanding into product decisions, whether through product management, customer success, support, or adjacent roles in SaaS or B2B environments. Background in Agile or Scrum is a useful context, but we value your ability to work in a new model over your fluency in the old one.
• Proficiency with markdown, or a strong willingness to master it quickly. In our FSAD model, POs “code” alongside developers using markdown as the programming language, directly translating design decisions into working code. A CS degree is not required; what matters is the ability to encode customer intent precisely enough that it drives correct outcomes without rework.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to describe complex workflows, logic, and visual states clearly and concisely for both technical teammates and AI agents. Precision of language is a core job skill in this model, not a soft skill.
• Strong analytical skills and experience with data-driven product design and decision-making.
• Demonstrated comfort with ambiguity, fast-moving environments, and evolving processes.
• Proficiency with product and project management tools such as Asana, Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, or Miro.
• Genuine curiosity about AI tools and a demonstrated willingness to build new working habits around them, including hands-on experience with prompt engineering, AI-assisted workflows, and using structured markdown to drive development outcomes alongside engineering teammates.
• Experience with workflow and service management platforms (ServiceNow, BMC, etc.) is preferred but not required.

What makes Incident IQ different:

• We facilitate whole-person growth where employees can develop personally as well as professionally.
• We offer an energetic and collaborative environment; everyone’s opinion matters!
• We produce software that empowers K-12 schools to run efficiently, allowing for a better classroom experience for students to THRIVE!
• We provide excellent work/life balance. Two amazing offices - a Downtown Atlanta office location and one at Halcyon in Alpharetta!

Incident IQ offers a competitive salary based on experience with a benefits package for full-time employees that includes medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401k match, and paid-time off (PTO).

Incident IQ is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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