Remote Product Owner - Academic Ops & AI Delivery

Kuali, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first work

Premium medical and dental coverage

401(k) matching

Employee stock option plan

Paid parental leave

Generous paid time off

Job summary

Kuali, Inc. is seeking a Product Owner – Academic Operations to drive vision, prioritization, and delivery of our academic operations solutions.

You translate institutional needs into actionable requirements and empower universities to streamline curriculum, scheduling, and workflows. You’ll work closely with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers to deliver high-impact features that improve operational efficiency and student outcomes, while representing the voice of the customer throughout

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product ownership or business analysis in SaaS or enterprise software.
• Strong understanding of higher education operations—curriculum, scheduling, or student systems.
• Skilled in agile methodologies and backlog management.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Analytical mindset with a focus on outcomes and user experience.
• Passion for improving education through technology.

Responsibilities

• Own the product backlog for Kuali Research, ensuring clarity, prioritization, and alignment with strategic goals.
• Translate customer feedback, institutional requirements, and product vision into actionable user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate daily with engineering and design teams to ensure timely, high‑quality delivery.
• Partner with Product Managers to refine roadmap priorities and validate outcomes against customer needs.
• Support release planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to drive continuous improvement.
• Serve as the voice of the customer within the scrum team, ensuring solutions meet real‑world research administration challenges.
• Monitor product performance and collaborate on data‑driven decisions to enhance usability and adoption.
• Lead product release-readiness activities, including documentation, internal enablement, implementation considerations, acceptance criteria validation, and stakeholder communication.
• Partner with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Implementation, Support, and other customer-facing teams to ensure successful product launches and adoption.
• Monitor adoption, usability, quality, and operational performance following release and translate findings into backlog improvements.
• Triage product defects and customer-reported issues, balancing urgent customer needs with roadmap priorities, planned investments, and technical debt.
• Communicate product progress, decisions, dependencies, risks, and outcomes clearly to internal and external stakeholders.
• Use AI to improve the quality, speed, and throughput of backlog management, requirements development, analysis, and product delivery.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of Kuali’s product development practices, standards, and AI-powered product operating system.

Skills

Product ownership

Agile methodologies

Backlog management

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Data-driven decision making

AI-driven PM

Job description

Kuali, Inc. is seeking a Product Owner – Academic Operations to drive vision, prioritization, and delivery of our academic operations solutions.

You translate institutional needs into actionable requirements and empower universities to streamline curriculum, scheduling, and workflows. You’ll work closely with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers to deliver high-impact features that improve operational efficiency and student outcomes, while representing the voice of the customer throughout