Product Owner — Digital Apps & API Integrations

Onward Search; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

401(k) Program

Commuter Benefit

eLearning and Ongoing Training

Education Reimbursement

Job summary

Onward Search is seeking a Product Owner for a temporary opportunity to lead delivery across custom digital applications and enterprise integrations. You will translate business needs into product requirements, user stories, and prioritized backlogs while guiding APIs, data flows, and system interactions.

You will partner with Product, Architecture, Engineering, UX, and business stakeholders to support successful delivery across teams, ensuring acceptance criteria and release readiness are met.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• At least five years of experience in product management, product ownership, software product delivery, or enterprise application development.
• Experience delivering custom web applications or digital products and partnering directly with Engineering teams.
• Experience defining application functionality, user journeys, business rules, system interactions, integration requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience with technically complex products involving APIs, system integrations, B2B capabilities, or regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritize backlogs for custom digital applications and related platform capabilities.
• Translate customer and business needs into features, workflows, business rules, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Partner with Architecture and Engineering to define APIs, integration services, event-driven integrations, and downstream processing requirements.
• Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, demonstrations, acceptance, and release-readiness activities.
• Communicate product priorities, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs while managing scope and sequencing across teams.

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

APIs & integrations

Agile / Scrum

Stakeholder collaboration

Job description

Onward Search is seeking a Product Owner for a temporary opportunity to lead delivery across custom digital applications and enterprise integrations. You will translate business needs into product requirements, user stories, and prioritized backlogs while guiding APIs, data flows, and system interactions.

You will partner with Product, Architecture, Engineering, UX, and business stakeholders to support successful delivery across teams, ensuring acceptance criteria and release readiness are met.