Product Owner

Winsupply Inc.; Moraine, Northern (OH, KY); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Winsupply Inc. is seeking a Product Owner to lead product vision, prioritize backlog, and align cross-functional teams across finance, IT, and operations. The role emphasizes agile planning, stakeholder collaboration, and data-driven decision making to deliver value.

You will work from inception to end, shaping roadmaps, defining success metrics, and ensuring timely delivery through effective sprint ceremonies and backlog refinement.

Qualifications

• Master's degree required; 12 months experience as Software Developer or Product Owner; willing to accept foreign equivalents.
• 40 hrs/week.
• Candidate should be proficient in agile environments and able to translate business requirements into actionable backlog items.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate the product vision and strategy.
• Own the product backlog end to end and write clear user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Conduct backlog refinement and plan sprints with the development team.
• Gather requirements from stakeholders and translate them into actionable backlog items.
• Track KPIs and report progress to leadership and stakeholders.

Skills

Agile

Backlog Management

Stakeholder Communication

Education

Master of Science in Engineering Management or Computer Science

Tools

Selenium

SQL

Python

JIRA

Power BI

Excel

Job description

Winsupply is in the business of creating and enabling entrepreneurs to achieve their dreams through wholesale distribution. Winsupply is a group of over 680 locally-owned companies that operate across a variety of industries, including HVAC, Plumbing, Electrical and more. The purpose of the support services campus is to eliminate obstacles and provide support to help our entrepreneurs succeed. Support service employees assist entrepreneurs in achieving their dreams through finance, accounting, IT, and other back-office operations.

Job Description

Will work on the project from inception to end using Agile, Competitive Benchmarking, Project Planning & Prioritization, Market Research, Go-to-Market Strategy, Customer Interviews, User Stories, Product Marketing, Road Mapping, Customer Journey, Brand Management, Change Management, Inventory Management, Logistics and Transportation Management, Procurement and Sourcing, Supply chain planning and optimization, Lean and Six Sigma Methodologies, Data analytics, Project Management, Risk Management, Vendor Management and Negotiations Technologies: Selenium, SQL, HTML, CSS, C, C++, Python, SAP, R, Figma, HPALM, qTest, AWS, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, JIRA, Confluence, Google suite, Canva, Trello, MATLAB, LTSpice, VERILOG, RPA, Miro, Arduino, Blynk. Will define and communicate the product vision, ensuring the development team understands the long-term goals and how each piece of work contributes to the bigger picture, own the product backlog end to end, including creating, prioritizing, and continuously refining user stories based on business value, customer impact, and technical feasibility, write clear and detailed user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria so the dev team knows exactly what success looks like before they start building, make real-time scope and priority trade-off decisions when competing demands arise, balancing stakeholder needs against team capacity and delivery timelines, gather requirements from multiple sources including stakeholders, end users, leadership, and cross-functional partners, then translate those inputs into actionable backlog items, serve as the primary point of contact between the business side and the development team, ensuring both sides stay aligned and informed throughout the sprint cycle, review deliverables against acceptance criteria to validate and accept or reject completed work, ensuring quality standards are met before anything goes to production. Will define success metrics (KPIs) to ensure success is tracked in a measurable, data driven way and communicate product progress, risks, blockers, and upcoming plans to stakeholders and leadership through regular status updates, demos, and reporting. Will conduct or participate in backlog refinement sessions with the dev team to break down large epics, clarify requirements, estimate effort, and ensure upcoming work is sprint-ready and stay close to end users by gathering feedback, analyzing usage data, monitoring support issues, and conducting research to inform what gets built next and in what order. Will manage and validate external dependencies with partners and vendors, ensuring their deliverables align with internal sprint timelines and don't create downstream delays and agile ceremony leadership including sprint planning, sprint demos, and sprint retrospectives. Will define and own the product roadmap, adjusting it as priorities shift based on new business needs, market changes, or technical discoveries, champion the user experience by advocating for usability, consistency, and quality in every feature and screen the team delivers. Will drive alignment across teams by facilitating conversations, resolving conflicting priorities, and ensuring everyone works toward the same outcomes.

Qualifications

Master of Science in Engineering Management or Computer Science with 12 months experience as Software Developer or Product Owner, foreign equivalent accepted, 40 hrs a week,

Additional Information

Physical Demands

The physical demands here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential

job functions with or without reasonable accommodations:

• Sitting for extended periods of time
• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and other computer components
• Extended periods of time viewing a PC screen.

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