Product Owner Data & Analytics

GT Independence, LLC; Grand Rapids (MI); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

GT Independence, LLC is seeking a Product Owner in Grand Rapids, Michigan to manage the analytics product backlog and activities.

The ideal candidate will have over 3 years of experience in product ownership, particularly in technology-enabled operations. You will partner with multiple stakeholders to clarify outcomes, support prioritization, and ensure delivery aligns with business and regulatory requirements.

This role offers a hybrid work environment, with both in-office and flexible remote work options.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a Product Owner or similar role.
• Experience delivering data or analytics products.
• General understanding of data architecture and governance.

Responsibilities

• Manage the backlog of reporting requests.
• Break down approved roadmap initiatives into user stories.
• Coordinate with teams to validate requirements.

Skills

Agile delivery practices

Backlog management

Stakeholder alignment

Data architecture understanding

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Aha!

Job description

Grand Rapids, MI, USA

• Pay or shift range: $90,000 USD to $110,000 USD
  The estimated range is the budgeted amount for this position. Final offers are based on various factors, including skill set, experience, location, qualifications and other job-related reasons.

Description

Product Owner

About the Role

The Product Owner is responsible for translating GTI’s Data & Analytics roadmap into clear, actionable requirements within a defined product domain. This role owns day-to-day backlog health, clarifies outcomes and acceptance criteria, and helps ensure teams are delivering work that supports business priorities, customer needs, quality, and regulatory commitments.

The Product Owner partners closely with IT Development, Operations, Compliance, UX Research, Launch & Enablement, and other stakeholders to evaluate incoming requests, assess impact, support prioritization, and guide solutions from discovery through delivery.

Location

Hybrid (business and team presence as needed; flexibility based on candidate)

Responsibilities

• Manage the backlog of reporting requests and balance requests against the Data & Analytics long-term roadmap.
• Break down approved roadmap initiatives into epics, features, user stories, requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Conduct problem and solution discovery to refine requirements and scope, in partnership with Director of Product and UX Research.
• Coordinate with UX Research, data/analytics, operations, support, and compliance to validate requirements and solution intent.
• Own and maintain the product backlog for assigned domain, ensuring items are prioritized, refined, and ready for development.
• Partner with the Director of Product and stakeholders to assess roadmap candidates, tradeoffs, business value, urgency, risk, and dependencies.
• Triage and assess incoming requests, clarifying problem statements, scope, impact, and recommended next steps.
• Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning support, acceptance review, and ongoing requirement clarification for IT Development teams.
• Represent customer, operational, regulatory, and business needs in product decisions and backlog sequencing.
• Monitor delivery progress, surface risks or blockers, and help align stakeholders on changes to scope, timing, or priority.
• Support launch readiness by providing release context, target user impacts, acceptance criteria, and operational implications to Launch & Enablement.
• Use product metrics, feedback, incidents, and adoption signals to recommend backlog adjustments and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, Product Manager, or similar role in technology-enabled operations.
• Experience owning and delivering data or analytics products, including requirements definition, roadmap ownership, prioritization and execution in partnership with IT.
• General understanding of data architecture, data platforms, analytics, governance, and regulatory considerations in collaboration with Data & Analytics team.
• Proficiency with backlog management, agile delivery practices, and cross-functional product development.
• Demonstrated ability to assess business value, operational impact, regulatory considerations, dependencies, and implementation tradeoffs.
• Experience working with engineering, operations, compliance, support, and customer-facing stakeholders.
• Strong facilitation, written communication, and stakeholder alignment skills.
• Comfort working in complex, multi-state or regulated environments, preferred.
• Familiarity with healthcare insurance programs (e.g., Medicaid), business administration, and enterprise platforms (e.g., ERP, claims, payroll, tax, customer-facing systems) preferred.
• Experience with product/project tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Aha!, Productboard, or similar platforms.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to use data, feedback, and outcomes to guide prioritization.
• Customer empathy and systems thinking, with the ability to connect detailed requirements to broader product outcomes.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or similar experience preferred.

Reporting Structure

Reports to: Manager of Product Operations
Dotted-line alignment with: Director of Product

Direct oversight of: None; coordinates assigned product domain stakeholders and delivery priorities

Education

Required: Bachelor's or better.

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