Product Owner

Avionté; BLOOMINGTON, Northern (MN, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Avionte is seeking a Product Owner to drive AI-assisted development with a sharp backlog focus and clear customer context. You will validate AI outputs, define acceptance criteria, and partner with a Group Product Manager to align sprint work with strategy.

You will lead ceremonies, engage with customers and stakeholders, and collaborate with QA and engineering to ensure quality gates and timely releases.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in product ownership, business analysis, or a closely related software product role.
• Experience writing acceptance criteria and functional requirements that engineering and QA can act on without back-and-forth.
• Hands-on experience in Agile/Scrum teams using tools like Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar.
• Comfort with fast iteration cycles: able to validate, give feedback, and re-prioritize quickly.
• Strong facilitation and communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Active user of AI tools (Claude, Copilot, or similar).
• Experience in staffing, HCM, or enterprise SaaS is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define the intent behind features with clarity for AI-assisted development pipelines.
• Own and maintain the team backlog and prioritize work for a continuous delivery cycle.
• Validate AI-generated outputs for accuracy and alignment with customer needs.
• Partner with the Group Product Manager to connect sprint work to strategy and outcomes.
• Lead sprint ceremonies: planning, grooming, demos, and retrospectives.
• Engage directly with customers and internal stakeholders to gather input and close feedback loops quickly.
• Collaborate with QA and engineering to define quality gates and release sign-off.
• Use AI tools to accelerate discovery, draft requirements, and analyze feedback.
• Support internal enablement on new features and releases.

Skills

Backlog management

Agile/Scrum

Stakeholder communication

Acceptance criteria writing

AI tools usage

Customer engagement

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jira

Job description

Avionte is transforming staffing and recruiting software and we've transformed how we build it. Our AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AIDLC) means engineering teams move faster than ever. That changes what a great Product Owner looks like.

In this environment, you're not primarily a story writer; you're an intent definer, an output validator, and a fast decision-maker. AI can generate stories from requirements, produce code from acceptance criteria, and synthesize customer feedback at scale. Your job is to supply the judgment it can't: sharp prioritization, clear customer context, and fast feedback on whether what got built is actually right.

This role sits within the Product Management organization and works closely with a Group Product Manager to maintain a healthy backlog and drive sprint-level execution.

What You'll Do

• Define the intent behind features with enough clarity that AI-assisted development pipelines can act on it: precise outcomes, constraints, and acceptance criteria over exhaustive specification
• Own and maintain the team backlog: prioritizing work that's ready to build and sequencing it to feed a continuous delivery cycle
• Validate AI-generated outputs: review generated stories, acceptance criteria, and prototypes for accuracy, completeness, and alignment with customer needs
• Partner with your Group Product Manager to connect sprint-level work to product strategy and measurable outcomes
• Lead sprint ceremonies: planning, grooming, demos, and retrospectives; keeping the team focused and unblocked
• Engage directly with customers and internal stakeholders to gather input, validate assumptions, and close feedback loops quickly
• Collaborate with QA and engineering to define quality gates and support release sign-off
• Use AI tools actively to accelerate discovery synthesis, draft requirements, analyze patterns in feedback, and keep documentation current
• Support internal enablement on new features and releases

What You'll Need

• 3+ years of experience in product ownership, business analysis, or a closely related software product role
• Ability to communicate with precision in an AIDLC environment, the quality of your input shapes the quality of what gets built
• Experience writing acceptance criteria and functional requirements that engineering and QA can act on without back-and-forth
• Hands-on experience in Agile/Scrum teams using tools like Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar
• Comfort with fast iteration cycles: able to validate, give feedback, and re-prioritize quickly
• Strong facilitation and communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Active user of AI tools (Claude, Copilot, or similar): we expect POs to use AI in their daily work, not just be aware of it
• Experience in staffing, HCM, workforce technology, or enterprise SaaS is a plus