Remote Product Owner for B2B SaaS, Agile Release

Appriss Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plans

Dental coverage

401(k) match

Parental leave

Job summary

Appriss Inc. is seeking a Product Owner to lead the Build & Deliver phases within a fast-paced, customer-focused PDLC. You will translate PRDs into granular features, maintain a clean Jira backlog, and drive stories from epics to ready-to-build requirements while collaborating with global teams.

You will coordinate releases, write user-facing and internal docs, and ensure proper analytics tagging. Strong Jira discipline, self-starting execution, and experience with B2B SaaS are essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or similar delivery-focused role in an agile software environment.

Responsibilities

• Translate agile PRDs into clear, granular features, stories, and requirements — with unambiguous acceptance criteria and reproduction steps.
• Decompose big initiatives into epics, then features, then stories, and single-feature efforts into detailed, buildable requirements.
• Keep Jira immaculate. Every ticket has its required fields filled, is correctly categorized, and is mapped to the right epic, initiative, release, and quarter.
• Maintain a clean, groomed backlog with multiple sprints of ready work staged ahead.
• Break work down independently, with minimal oversight — a true self-starter.
• Apply sound prioritization and make fast, defensible tradeoffs when stories compete for limited capacity.
• Triage bugs by real severity and urgency —not all bugs are created equal.
• Solo-run your team's day-to-day scrum ceremonies: refinement, backlog grooming, and daily stand-up.
• Partner effectively and respectfully with global dev teams, fostering an open, collaborative, and fun environment across every ceremony.
• Fluent in scrum best practices and anti-patterns, and in the Definition of Ready / Definition of Done.
• Know the paths by which a story, feature, or epic is reviewed with and approved by Product before it's cleared for deployment.
• Own day-to-day dependency management across partner teams (e.g., data science), so companion and sister stories land together and on time.
• Leadership has your back on escalations that require negotiating across competing team priorities — you keep the work aligned; we handle the turf.
• Coordinate release execution with feature toggles and other phased or hidden-release techniques; strong grasp of release best practices.
• Write (or quickly learn to write) the documentation that ships around a release: release notes, user guides, and internal FAQs for CSMs, sales, and customer service.
• Ensure analytics tagging is scoped into every new development. You aren't responsible for the KPIs — but you make sure instrumentation is never the forgotten gap.
• Proactively push status updates to need-to-know parties. Proactively surface risks, dependencies, and blockers before they impact delivery, with clear context on urgency and recommended next steps.

Skills

Product ownership

Backlog management

Story decomposition

Prioritization

Self-starter

Sprint ceremonies

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder communication

Analytics awareness

Release planning

Documentation

Technical curiosity

B2B SaaS experience

Retail domain knowledge

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Appriss Inc. is seeking a Product Owner to lead the Build & Deliver phases within a fast-paced, customer-focused PDLC. You will translate PRDs into granular features, maintain a clean Jira backlog, and drive stories from epics to ready-to-build requirements while collaborating with global teams.

You will coordinate releases, write user-facing and internal docs, and ensure proper analytics tagging. Strong Jira discipline, self-starting execution, and experience with B2B SaaS are essential.