Product Owner

Optomi; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Optomi in Chicago is seeking a Product Owner to drive cross-functional Agile teams from ideation through delivery, focusing on AI enablement and user adoption across digital platforms.

The role emphasizes partnering with stakeholders, refining requirements, and guiding ecommerce feature prioritization within an agile framework to deliver measurable business value.

Qualifications

• 2+ years professional experience in product or similar roles.
• Experience in Agile development with iterative delivery.
• Familiarity with AI tools and experimentation.
• Exposure to product ideation to launch process.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to a product vision and drive the process to fruition.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to grow product lines.
• Owns SDLC requirements 360 – gathering, definition, clarifications.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects with independence.
• Drive cross-functional teams through the product life cycle.
• Motivate teams to deliver innovative solutions with urgency.
• Prioritize ecommerce features within an agile framework.
• Partner with IT for development, testing, and deployment plans.
• Refine requirements with internal partners.
• Vet scope, use cases, test cases, and design specs with UX and QA.
• Identify issues and propose solutions with stakeholders.
• Synthesize requirements and shepherd features to rollout.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Cross-functional collaboration

Requirements gathering

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

AB testing tools

Job description

The Product Owner will be a key contributor in the Product organization and will be responsible for supporting cross functional Agile teams through Product functions that span the spectrum from ideation-strategizing to execution-delivery and everything in between. This role will be responsible for achieving key business metrics by enhancing the user experience related to AI enablement, user adoption, across digital platforms. This role is ideal for someone with Product Management ambition and looking to grow and learn in the discipline.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of a product vision, then drive a process to bring that vision to fruition
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to develop product-line growth strategy
• Owns SDLC requirements 360 – gathering, definition, clarifications.
• Must organize with independence, develop a strong understanding of our customers, manage multiple concurrent projects, and identify and lead solutions that recognize significant business value
• Drive cross-functional teams comprised of both business roles and technical development during the life cycle of product development
• Inspire and motivate the development teams to deliver innovative and exciting solutions with an appropriate sense of urgency.
• Contribute to the prioritization of ecommerce features and understand the art of sequencing their delivery with an agile framework.
• Partner with IT on development, testing & implementation plans, as well as internal communications & deployment plans
• Collaborate with internal business partners to refine requirements and define enhancements, creating buy-in from other teams as necessary
• Vet scope, requirements, use case/user scenario, test case documents and design specifications, in partnership with UX, product managers, QA and design.
• Proactively identify issues and work with internal partners to understand options and execute solve
• Synthesize business requirements, identify areas of uncertainty, recommend solutions, gather buy-in from relevant stakeholders, roll solution out to team, shepherd feature through development and review code before rollout.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• 2+ years overall relevant professional experience
• 1+ years working in an Agile development environment, managing iteration-level deliverables. Including using agile tools such as JIRA, Confluence, analytical tools, AB testing tools etc.
• Experience utilizing or enabling generative AI tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Github Copilot, Winsurf, etc.)
• Exposure in Product management, including ideation to execution, and launch to maintain

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within sales driven organization(s)
• Experience developing or improving AI Chatbots or Virtual Assistant