Product Owner

Marathon Petroleum; Findlay (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Marathon Petroleum seeks a Data Product Owner to join the Data Product Delivery team. You will translate business priorities into actionable work for agile delivery teams and manage the product backlog to deliver data capabilities across value chains.

You will collaborate with Data Product Managers, Digital Partners, and technical teams to ensure data products meet governance, quality, and business outcomes. Prior experience in agile environments and energy domain is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 2+ years of relevant product owner experience.
• Experience in Agile delivery, backlog management, user story creation, sprint planning, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience translating business requirements into actionable product and data solutions.
• Familiarity with data governance, data quality, reporting, analytics, and enterprise data management concepts.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar Agile planning tools.
• CSPO/SAFe POPM or equivalent Agile certification preferred.
• Energy industry or adjacent industry experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Translates business priorities into prioritized backlog items and actionable user stories.
• Maintains and executes against product roadmaps and release plans.
• Collaborates with stakeholders to understand objectives and inform backlog prioritization.
• Represents the data product in planning, defining priorities and delivery commitments.
• Goes through planning activities with data governance, engineering, and analytics teams.
• Reviews and accepts completed work against defined acceptance criteria.
• Monitors adoption and outcomes to identify opportunities for value realization.

Skills

Backlog Management

Agile Methodology

Decision Making

Authentic Communicator

Business Acumen

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems or related field

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jira

Job description

An exciting career awaits you

At MPC, we're committed to being a great place to work - one that welcomes new ideas, encourages diverse perspectives, develops our people, and fosters a collaborative team environment.

RESport completion of initiatives; applies Agile product development approaches within assigned team.

Position Summary

Data, Analytics & AI is on a mission to create trusted and reusable data products that will connect our value chains and support our strategic commitments. Our vision of data product strategy moves us to a full value chain mindset across data products where these trusted data assets support the integrated value chains. This is an exciting and challenging time, and we need a Product Owner to join our Data Product Delivery team.

Our Data Product Owners play a key role in translating business priorities into actionable work for agile delivery teams. As a Data Product Owner, you are responsible for managing and prioritizing the product backlog, refining requirements, and ensuring data product enhancements deliver measurable business value. Working closely with Data Product Managers, Digital Partners, business stakeholders, and technical teams, you help deliver data capabilities that support decision-making, operational efficiency, and analytics outcomes within an assigned enterprise domain (Commercial, Midstream, Refining, or Corporate Functions).

Key Responsibilities

• Manages and delivers data product enhancements within an assigned domain, translating business needs into prioritized backlog items, well-defined requirements, and actionable user stories that enable trusted data, analytics, and operational insights.
• Maintains and executes against product roadmaps and release plans, translating priorities into a refined backlog and actionable delivery increments.
• Maintains and prioritizes the product backlog, balancing immediate business value, emerging opportunities, technical enablement, and long‑term sustainability.
• Gathers and clarifies business requirements, translating stakeholder needs into actionable user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Engages business stakeholders and data consumers to understand objectives, gather feedback, assess data usage patterns, and inform backlog prioritization.
• Assesses business objectives, data dependencies, and user needs to prioritize enhancements and maximize the value of enterprise data products.
• Facilitates communication and planning between business stakeholders, BI development, data engineering, data architecture, data science, and data governance teams.
• Resolves product‑related issues, manages trade‑off decisions, and proactively addresses risks and dependencies to keep delivery on track.
• Represents the data product during planning activities, helping define priorities, dependencies, and delivery commitments across teams.
• Reviews and accepts completed work, ensuring delivered capabilities meet defined acceptance criteria and stakeholder expectations.
• Partners with data governance, architecture, and engineering teams to ensure delivered data products meet quality, usability, security, and governance requirements.
• Monitors data product adoption, stakeholder feedback, and business outcomes to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and increased value realization.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, related field or equivalent work experience.
• 2+ years of relevant product owner experience.
• Experience working in Agile delivery teams, including backlog management, user story creation, sprint planning, and acceptance criteria definition.
• Experience translating business requirements into actionable product and data solutions.
• Familiarity with data governance, data quality, reporting, analytics, and enterprise data management concepts.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar Agile planning tools.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), SAFe POPM, or equivalent Agile certification preferred.
• Energy industry or adjacent industry experience preferred, with an understanding of operational, commercial, financial, or enterprise data domains.

Skills

• Agile Methodology - Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle, taking incremental steps towards the completion of a project.
• Authentic Communicator - Expresses ideas and information, both verbally and in writing, clearly and credibly. Listens to understand and fosters constructive dialogue.
• Backlog Management - A prioritized list of work for the development team that is derived from the roadmap and its requirements. The most important items are shown at the top of the product backlog so the team knows what to deliver first.
• Business Acumen - Applies knowledge of MPC's business, industry and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals. Makes decisions and recommendations clearly linked to MPC's strategy.
• Decision Making - Ability to know when and what decisions should be made and to make severa