Product Owner

Cambridge Investment Research, Inc.; Fairfield (IA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium benefits package

11 holidays

401K retirement plan

Job summary

Cambridge Investment Research, Inc. is seeking a Product Owner to shape and deliver a complex enterprise product. This individual contributor role connects strategy to execution and aligns stakeholders to measurable outcomes.

You will own product strategy and execution within the assigned scope, delivering capabilities and collaborating with cross-functional partners on readiness and adoption. This role has no direct reports.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive product management, ownership, or related experience.
• Experience owning product strategy, roadmaps, backlogs, OKRs, delivery, adoption, and value realization for complex enterprise products or platforms.
• Demonstrated experience delivering products from discovery through adoption in a multi-stakeholder enterprise environment.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product Management, Design, and Engineering to define product vision, strategy, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
• Identify, evaluate, and prioritize opportunities based on customer value, business impact, feasibility, risk, effort, confidence, dependencies, and time-to-value.
• Lead discovery, experimentation, MVP definition, delivery, launch, measurement, and continuous improvement for assigned product(s).
• Translate strategy into a prioritized backlog of outcomes, epics, features, stories, acceptance criteria, instrumentation, controls, and adoption requirements.
• Support governance by translating risk, privacy, security, legal, and compliance expectations into practical product requirements.
• Define product scorecards and manage to outcomes such as adoption, satisfaction, productivity, quality, and risk.
• Drive adoption with internal associates and external users through readiness, communications, learning, onboarding, support, and feedback loops.
• Create executive-ready strategy narratives, investment cases, roadmaps, priority recommendations, decision logs, and performance updates.
• Use Azure DevOps to maintain backlog hierarchy, priority, traceability, dashboards, reporting, and execution visibility.

Skills

Product management

Product ownership

Roadmaps

Stakeholder management

OKRs

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

Key Deliverables and Responsibilities

We are seeking a Product Owner to help shape and deliver a complex enterprise product or platform. This is an individual contributor role for a product leader who can move fluently between strategy and execution, connect opportunities to real customer and business problems, and align Product, Design, Engineering, Technology, Architecture, and governance partners around measurable outcomes.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Product Owner to help shape and deliver a complex enterprise product or platform. This is an individual contributor role for a product leader who can move fluently between strategy and execution, connect opportunities to real customer and business problems, and align Product, Design, Engineering, Technology, Architecture, and governance partners around measurable outcomes.

You will own product strategy and execution within assigned scope; directly deliver product capabilities; and work closely with cross-functional partners on readiness and adoption. This role does not have direct people-management responsibilities.

What You Will Do

• Partner with Product Management, Design, and Engineering to define product vision, strategy, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
• Identify, evaluate, and prioritize opportunities based on customer value, business impact, feasibility, risk, effort, confidence, dependencies, and time-to-value.
• Lead discovery, experimentation, MVP definition, delivery, launch, measurement, and continuous improvement for assigned product(s).
• Translate strategy into a prioritized backlog of outcomes, epics, features, stories, acceptance criteria, instrumentation, controls, and adoption requirements.
• Support governance by translating risk, privacy, security, legal, and compliance expectations into practical product requirements.
• Define product scorecards and manage to outcomes such as adoption, satisfaction, productivity, quality, and risk.
• Drive adoption with internal associates and external users, as applicable, through readiness, communications, learning, onboarding, support, and feedback loops.
• Create executive-ready strategy narratives, investment cases, roadmaps, priority recommendations, decision logs, and performance updates.
• Use Azure DevOps to maintain clear backlog hierarchy, priority, traceability, dashboards, reporting, and execution visibility.

What We Are Looking For

• 5+ years of progressive product management, product ownership, or related experience.
• Experience owning product strategy, roadmaps, backlogs, OKRs, delivery, adoption, and value realization for complex enterprise products or platforms.
• Demonstrated experience delivering products from discovery through adoption in a multi-stakeholder enterprise environment.
• Working knowledge of enterprise platforms and governance concepts relevant to the assigned product area(s).
• Excellent discovery, prioritization, analytical, and investment-case skills.
• Exceptional ability to influence without authority and communicate complex choices to executives, technical partners, governance functions, and business stakeholders.
• Experience driving adoption and organizational change across diverse user populations.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

Why Cambridge

Cambridge has competitive benefits and promotes a work/life balance to encourage individual success.

• Premium benefit package including medical, vision, dental, life and long-term disability insurance
• Vacation/sick time
• 401K retirement plan with company matching program
• Eleven paid holidays

You can find more details about our comprehensive benefits packagehere.

Cambridge Overview

Cambridge is a financial solutions firm that provides business support services to thousands of independent financial advisors. These advisors offer personalized investment services including wealth management, financial planning, and retirement services to individuals and families across the country. Cambridge provides significant compliance, technology, and transaction processing support to these financial advisors and their offices.