Senior Product Owner

4500 Marathon Petroleum Company LP; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

401k matching

Paid parental leave

Educational reimbursement

Discretionary annual bonus

Job summary

Marathon Petroleum Company LP seeks a Senior Product Owner to lead Order-to-Cash capabilities, focusing on Accounts Receivable & Collections and Contract & Order Management. You will translate business strategy into roadmaps, manage backlogs, write user stories, and drive measurable business value with SAP-based and custom .NET solutions.

The role collaborates with stakeholders, architects, and delivery teams to optimize and modernize O2C processes, ensuring compliance and alignment with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems preferred or related field.
• 5+ years of relevant experience required.
• Experience with Order‑to‑Cash (O2C) capabilities including AR, Collections, Contract Management, or Order Management.
• Experience in Agile environments as Product Owner/Manager.
• Experience defining roadmaps, managing backlogs, delivering enterprise technology solutions.
• SAP SD and/or SAP FI‑AR experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Builds customer and internal facing products with superior UX across multiple verticals.
• Aligns teams to build and prioritize product roadmaps and releases.
• Collaborates with Agile teams, stakeholders, and business reps to resolve issues.
• Works with cross-functional teams to align on product strategies and plan releases.
• Performs trade-off analyses to keep development on track toward commitments.
• Prioritizes short-term feature backlog and long-term roadmap.
• Conducts customer research and product discovery to shape strategy.
• Collaborates with customers to understand challenges and opportunities.
• Collects data and uses data-driven approach to evaluate viability of initiatives.
• Writes epics and stories communicating needs to meet business objectives.

Skills

Adaptability

AI Fundamentals

Change Management

Agile Methodology

Authentic Communicator

Backlog Management

Business Acumen

Decision Making

Industry Product Knowledge

Product Development

PLM

UX

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems

Tools

SAP SD

SAP FI-AR

RightAngle

.NET

Job description

An exciting career awaits you At MPC, we’re committed to being a great place to work – one that welcomes new ideas, encourages diverse perspectives, develops our people, and fosters a collaborative team environment.

Position Summary

A Senior Product Owner is responsible for organizing, prioritizing, and assessing work for Agile teams while driving the strategic direction, roadmap, and delivery of critical Order-to-Cash (O2C) capabilities. This role serves as the product leader for the Accounts Receivable & Collections and Contract & Order Management domains, partnering closely with business stakeholders, architects, and delivery teams to deliver scalable solutions that improve operational efficiency, financial outcomes, and customer experience. The Senior Product Owner is accountable for translating business strategy into actionable product roadmaps, managing and prioritizing backlogs, defining user stories and acceptance criteria, and ensuring delivery of measurable business value. Within Accounts Receivable & Collections, the role supports capabilities that enable accurate billing, timely cash application, dispute resolution, and collections execution to accelerate cash realization. Within Contract & Order Management, the role supports the establishment of executable deals, generation of defensible contracts, and maintenance of accurate commercial and delivery details across the order lifecycle. This position partners with business and technology teams to optimize and modernize solutions leveraging SAP Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), SAP Sales & Distribution (SD), RightAngle, and custom .NET applications, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, compliance requirements, and organizational objectives. The Senior Product Owner drives continuous improvement, supports digital transformation initiatives, and enables delivery teams to successfully execute against product commitments while advancing the long-term vision for O2C capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Builds customer and internal facing products with superior user experience across multiple verticals, accountable for an established or moderate complexity product.
• Ensures alignment between teams to build and prioritize product roadmaps, plan releases, and align them with business objectives.
• Collaborates with Agile teams, stakeholders, and business representatives to address and resolve issues that arise during product development.
• Works collaboratively with cross-functional teams, such as Research and Development, User Experience (UX), and business and operations teams, to align on product strategies, gather insights, and plan releases.
• Identifies product-related issues, makes decisions and continuously does trade‑off analyses to ensure development stays on track toward deliverable commitments.
• Prioritizes the short‑term feature backlog and releases, as well as the long‑term product roadmap for products.
• Conducts customer research, product discovery and synthesizes market factors into a cohesive product strategy.
• Collaborates with customers to understand challenges & opportunities.
• Collects quantitative data and takes a data driven approach to evaluate the viability of product initiatives.
• Writes epics and stories to support completion of initiatives; ensures stories clearly communicate the customer and stakeholder needs to meet key business objectives and strategies for the product; promotes Agile approaches to product development across teams/areas

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems preferred, related field or equivalent experience. 5+ years of relevant experience required. Experience supporting Order‑to‑Cash (O2C) business capabilities including Accounts Receivable, Collections, Contract Management, or Order Management required. Experience working in Agile environments as a Product Owner or Product Manager required. Experience defining product roadmaps, managing backlogs, and delivering enterprise technology solutions required. Experience with SAP SD (Sales & Distribution) and/or SAP FI‑AR (Accounts Receivable) preferred. Experience within the energy, manufacturing, or transportation industries preferred. Product Owner Certification (CSPO, PSPO) preferred.

Skills

• Adaptability - Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment (e.g., people, processes, structure, or culture); adjusting effectively to change by exploring the benefits, trying new approaches, and collaborating with others to make the change successful.
• AI Fundamentals - Understanding of core AI concepts and methods, ability to apply AI to job‑relevant use cases and capacity to contribute to organizational AI reimagination.
• Change Management - Change Management refers to a systematic approach for defining and implementing procedures and/or technologies to deal with changes in the environment. It can mean adapting to change, controlling change and/or effecting change.
• Agile Methodology - Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle, taking incremental steps towards the completion of a project.
• Authentic Communicator - Expresses ideas and information, both verbally and in writing, clearly and credibly. Listens to understand and fosters constructive dialogue.
• Backlog Management - A prioritized list of work for the development team that is derived from the roadmap and its requirements. The most important items are shown at the top of the product backlog, so the team knows what to deliver first.
• Business Acumen - Applies knowledge of MPC's business, industry and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals. Makes decisions and recommendations clearly linked to MPC's strategy.
• Decision Making - Ability to know when and what decisions should be made and to make several decisions simultaneously in a fast‑paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Industry Product Knowledge - Industry product knowledge refers to a comprehensive understanding of the products and services within a particular industry. It encompasses familiarity with the features, functionalities, applications, and specifications of the products offered by companies operating in that industry. It enables individuals to effectively communicate the value propositions of products, address customer inquiries, identify market trends, make informed business decisions, and contribute to the development and improvement of products and services within the industry. This knowledge often requires staying updated with the latest advancements, technologies, and market dynamics within the specific industry domain.
• Product Development - The creation, innovation, enhancement or improvement of an existing product, or developing an entirely new kind of product to satisfy the requirements of its end‑users.
• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) - The handling of a good as it moves through the typical stages of its product life: development and introduction, growth, maturity/stability, and decline.
• User Experience (UX) - User Experience (UX) refers to the overall experience that a person has when interacting with a product, service, or system, especially in terms of how easy or pleasing it is to use.

Location: San Antonio, Texas Additional locations: Findlay, Ohio

Job Requisition ID: 00023994 Location Address: 19100 Ridgewood Pkwy Education: Employee Group: Full time Employee Subgroup: Regular

Marathon Petroleum Company LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, reproductive health decision‑making, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition or AIDS/HIV status, ancestry, national origin, genetic information, military, veteran status, marital status, citizenship or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

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• access to health, vision, and dental insurance
• paid time off
• 401k matching program
• paid parental leave
• educational reimbursement

The hired candidate will also be eligible for a discretionary company‑sponsored annual bonus program.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Veteran / Disability We will consider all qualified Applicants for employment, including those with arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws. In reviewing criminal history in connection with a conditional offer of employment, Marathon will consider the key responsibilities of the role.

About Marathon Petroleum Corporation Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC) is a leading, integrated, downstream energy company headquartered in Findlay, Ohio. The company operates the nation’s largest refining system. MPC’s marketing system includes branded locations across the United States, including Marathon brand retail outlets. MPC also owns the general partner and majority limited partner interest in MPLX LP, a midstream company that owns and operates gathering, processing, and fractionation assets, as well as crude oil and light product transportation and logistics infrastructure.