Product Owner

Patriot Talent Solutions; Knoxville (TN); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Patriot Talent Solutions is seeking a Product Owner for a hybrid role in Knoxville, TN. You will own the vision and roadmap for enterprise data and analytics products, prioritizing requests and translating business needs into actionable stories for delivery teams.

You will work with data engineers, analysts, and governance partners to mature product practices and deliver measurable outcomes, balancing value, risk, and effort across stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience as Product Owner with responsibility for roadmap, backlog and outcomes.
• Experience maturing product practices in organizations.
• Ability explain backlog entries, priorities, and tradeoffs.
• Experience with Agile/Kanban or evolving product delivery environment.
• Experience with enterprise data platforms, analytics, BI, governance, or data engineering teams.
• Knowledge of data concepts: data lakes, lakehouses, warehouses, pipelines, reporting, metadata.

Responsibilities

• Own vision, roadmap, backlog, and outcomes for data and analytics products.
• Establish intake and prioritization for business requests and platform improvements.
• Trade off different priorities based on value, risk, effort, and dependencies.
• Translate business needs into user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, governance partners, and stakeholders.
• Move organization toward product-oriented delivery, away from reactive requests.
• Introduce or mature Kanban, backlog refinement, planning, reviews, and measurement.

Skills

Product Owner

Agile delivery

Data platforms

Business intelligence

Stakeholder mgmt

Backlog mgmt

Kanban

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

OneLake

Power BI

Job description

Knoxville, TN | Product Owner | Full-time

We are actively recruiting a Product Owner for our client in Knoxville, Tennessee. This is a full-time opportunity that will require onsite work in Knoxville two days per week. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who can own enterprise data products while helping a team develop more mature product-management and Agile delivery practices. Must have hands‑on Product Owner experience and meaningful experience with data platforms, analytics, or business intelligence.

Due to client request, candidates must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision, roadmap, backlog, and measurable outcomes for enterprise data and analytics products.
• Establish a structured intake and prioritization process for business requests, technical needs, and platform improvements.
• Evaluate competing priorities and make clear tradeoff decisions based on customer value, risk, effort, dependencies, and organizational goals.
• Translate business needs into actionable user stories and acceptance criteria for technical delivery teams.
• Work directly with data engineers, analysts, architects, governance partners, and business stakeholders throughout delivery.
• Help move the organization from reactive, ticket‑driven delivery toward product‑oriented ways of working.
• Introduce or mature practices such as Kanban, backlog refinement, roadmap planning, release planning, stakeholder reviews, and outcome measurement.
• Build adoption by clarifying the users, value proposition, success measures, and lifecycle of each data product.
• Distinguish product needs from projects, service requests, incidents, and one‑time reporting requests.
• Support data quality, governance, metadata, stewardship, and self‑service analytics initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience serving as a Product Owner with direct responsibility for product decisions, priorities, backlog, roadmap, and outcomes.
• Experience introducing or maturing product practices in an organization where they were not fully established.
• Ability to explain how requests entered the backlog, how priorities were determined, and what tradeoffs were made.
• Experience working directly with technical delivery teams in an Agile, Kanban, or evolving product‑delivery environment.
• Meaningful experience with enterprise data platforms, analytics products, business intelligence, data governance, or data engineering teams.
• Working knowledge of data concepts such as data lakes or lakehouses, warehouses, semantic models, pipelines, reporting, data quality, metadata, and self‑service analytics.
• Ability to influence stakeholders, challenge request‑driven ways of working appropriately, and create alignment around product priorities.
• Bachelor's degree or the equivalent education and relevant professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, Power BI, or comparable enterprise data and analytics platforms.
• Experience owning internal data products used by multiple business functions or user groups.
• Experience defining adoption, value, service, quality, or usage measures for data products.
• Background working in a complex organization with multiple stakeholder groups and competing priorities.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled