Product Owner

talentmanagementsolution; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

talentmanagementsolution in the United States is seeking a Product Owner to drive a content management product used for college athletics websites. You will own the roadmap, write requirements, review features, and coordinate releases to enable a transition to a next-generation platform.

You will gather customer feedback, work with staff on an admin redesign from requirements through release, and validate features in preview environments, ensuring acceptance criteria are met and issues are

Qualifications

• 3+ years as Product Owner/PM/BA on SaaS or web product.
• Experience managing a Jira backlog with clear acceptance criteria.
• Hands-on with AI tools and evaluating their output.
• Understanding of HTML/CSS basics, APIs and deployment workflows.
• Strong writing skills for plans, tickets and release notes.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the product roadmap and revisit priorities with leadership.
• Translate feedback into plans, Jira stories and testable criteria using AI tools.
• Gather staff feedback and guide admin redesign from requirements to release.
• Test features in previews and provide acceptance or revision feedback.
• Assess escalations, clarify bugs, set priorities and route work to developers.
• Prepare teams for releases and use data to inform decisions.

Skills

Product Owner

Backlog management

Acceptance criteria

AI tools

Requirements writing

Customer interaction

Tools

Jira

Job description

Role overview

Own the direction and delivery of a content management product used to run college athletics websites. This customer-facing product role combines roadmap decisions, requirements writing, hands-on feature review, and release coordination. A key focus is redesigning the tools staff use to publish schedules, rosters, stories, and results, while supporting a transition to a next-generation platform.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the product roadmap and revisit priorities with product leadership as customer needs and strategy evolve.
• Translate customer feedback and product goals into plans, Jira stories, and clear, testable acceptance criteria, using AI-assisted delivery tools in daily work.
• Gather feedback from athletic communications staff and guide the admin redesign from requirements through release.
• Test features in preview environments, check them against agreed criteria, and provide actionable acceptance or revision feedback.
• Assess support escalations, clarify bug reports and requests, set priorities, and route work to developers.
• Prepare support, marketing, and sales teams for releases, and use customer conversations and product data to inform decisions.

Requirements

• At least three years as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or Business Analyst on a SaaS or web product; multi-tenant CMS experience is especially relevant.
• Strong track record managing an end-to-end Jira backlog and writing clear stories and testable acceptance criteria.
• Regular hands-on experience with AI tools and sound judgment when reviewing their output.
• Practical understanding of how websites are built and hosted, including HTML and CSS basics, APIs, data formats, and deployment workflows.
• Strong writing skills for plans, tickets, release notes, and help content.
• Comfortable working directly with customers and internal teams, prioritizing requests, and explaining decisions clearly.

Nice to have

• Experience in college athletics or sports information; CMS redesign or platform migration work; familiarity with accessibility, SEO, site performance, Salesforce, Google Analytics, or AI-assisted development.

Benefits and work setup

The role is regular, full-time at 40 hours per week.

The listed annual salary range is USD $90,000–$100,000.