Product Owner III

Compassion International, Inc.; Colorado; Remote; USD 103,000 - 122,000; Full time

Job summary

A nonprofit organization is looking for a Product Owner to join their Agile team. This role involves defining user stories, managing the product backlog, and ensuring alignment with organizational goals focused on child protection. Ideal candidates are results-driven with strong leadership and stakeholder management skills. The position offers competitive benefits and a mission-driven work environment.

Benefits

Generous paid time off

10% contribution to retirement fund

Excellent healthcare coverage

Free short-term professional counseling

Qualifications

• Experience in working in complex environments with multiple stakeholders.
• Portfolio of successful product launches.
• Strong background in prioritizing product value.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain the backlog and prioritize tasks.
• Participate in sprint planning and collaborate with product managers.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Technical prioritization

Strong leadership

Communication skills

Job description

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The expected salary range for this position is $103,800.00 - $121,955.60. Employees in specific high cost of labor locations in the United States (such as San Francisco, CA and Seattle, WA) may qualify for a geographic differential. Compassion International is not responsible for third parties who omit this information when copying and re-posting job openings.

As a strategic leader within the Agile development team, the Product Owner plays a pivotal role in shaping and delivering innovative solutions that drive team performance and impact. This role bridges the gap between business vision and technical execution, ensuring that products align with organizational goals and donor engagement strategies. Working closely with stakeholders, the Product Owner translates high-level features into actionable user stories, prioritizing them to maximize value delivery. They define and communicate clear acceptance criteria, ensuring each story aligns with the broader product vision and supports key marketing and fundraising objectives. At this career level, the Product Owner operates with a high degree of autonomy, often leading complex or global initiatives. They may also mentor junior team members, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. This role is ideal for a results-driven professional with a passion for transformation, user-centric design, and data-informed decision-making in the nonprofit or fundraising space.

What will you do?

• Maintains a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintains a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Compassion, and faithfully upholds Compassion’s ministry in prayer.

• Acts as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children. Understands Christ’s mandate to protect children. Commits to and prioritizes child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the ministry. Abides by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct. Reports any concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately supports responses to incidents if they occur.

• Uphold and engage in Compassion’s core Cultural Behaviors.

• In coordination with product management, ensures that the backlog is prioritized and well understood going into the program increment planning event creating collaterals as appropriate to communicate the vision to the team and other stakeholders. Breaks down features provided by the product manager into user stories.

• Acts as the content authority for all user stories and associated acceptance criteria.

• Acts as the recognized process expert for a product, managing all aspects of the end to end process, using "good of the whole thinking."

• Recognizes opportunities for improvement and implements solutions (People, Process and Technology) by understanding the value of telemetry and performance metrics.

• Participates in sprint planning setting priority and providing clarity for user stories that will be completed in the sprint (including enabler stories). Attends agile development team participating in daily stand-ups, system demos, sprint planning, program increment planning and other meetings as required to advance the program vision.

• Refines team backlog, ensuring that there is adequate detail (just in time elaboration) to prioritize and sequence work.

• Accepts stories as done ensuring that the product meets quality standards. Actively participates in team demos and retrospectives.

• Collaborates with other product owners to address cross team dependencies and impacts.

• Coordinates between Agile Team, Release Advisor and Product Manager to execute Change management activities for new feature/product releases: End user communications, training plans, and deployment schedules.

• May coach and provide expertise to other professionals and support staff in the product ownership discipline.

What do you bring?

• Experience in working in complex environments, working with multiple stakeholders at once

• Experience is building and enhancing relationships with Stakeholders, being a trusted partner in product development and delivery

• Strong background in prioritizing technical debt, innovation, and defects to maximize product value

• Portfolio of multiple successful product launches

• Strong leadership and communications skills

Why work here?

• The mission: Join a team that is motivated to release children from poverty in Jesus’ name.

• Our benefits: Receive generous paid time off, 10% contribution to a 403(b) retirement fund on top of your salary, excellent healthcare coverage, free short-term professional counseling, and more.

• Spiritual growth: Participate in regular chapel services, prayer groups, and department devotionals.

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About Us

Releasing children from poverty in Jesus’ name

It’s a mission that drives us because the need is desperate. Ten percent of the world lives on $1.90 a day or less. Our hearts break for the millions of children who suffer from lack of resources, but we rejoice because there is hope.

We at Compassion know that the transformative power of Christ’s love is not bound by nationality or economic status. Unified by this conviction, our increasingly diverse staff uses our talents and experience to serve more than two million children in 25 countries. We’re excited for you to join our ministry!