Senior Product Owner

Ameren Corporation; St. Louis (MO); Hybrid; USD 91,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage on date of hire

Pension plan (cash balance)

401(k) with company match

Paid vacation and holidays

Parental leave and family caregiver le

Job summary

Ameren Corporation is seeking a Senior Product Owner for its Agile development teams. This role voices customer needs, translates them into actionable tasks, and partners with multiple teams to ensure the product delivers customer value and aligns with business goals.

The Senior Product Owner maintains the backlog and drives the product vision across sprints. Ideal candidates will have strong analytical skills, excellent communication, and the ability to influence stakeholders while delivering

Qualifications

• Experience with agile product ownership and backlog management.
• Strong stakeholder collaboration and communication.
• Ability to translate customer needs into actionable user stories.

Responsibilities

• Connect with the Customer and conduct user research to understand needs.
• Develop and maintain product vision and roadmaps.
• Prioritize backlog and ensure stories are well-formed and compliant.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Architects, and cross-functional teams.
• Define metrics and drive data‑driven decisions across the product lifecycle.

Skills

Agile methodology

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Analytical thinking

Job description

About Ameren Services

Ameren Services provides administrative support and services to Ameren Corporation and its operating companies, subsidiaries and affiliates. Ameren Services includes a wide range of skill sets and roles, from finance and legal experts to digital and cyber specialists, plus those charged with ensuring environmental compliance and operational safety. Together, we help execute a strategy that enables Ameren to deliver superior long‑term value to customers, shareholders and the environment.

Our benefits include:

• Medical coverage on date of hire
• 100% employer paid cash balance pension plan
• 401(k) with company match fully vested on date of hire
• Minimum of 15 days paid vacation and 12 paid holidays
• Paid parental leave and family caregiver leave
• Visit our Benefits & Perks Page for more information on benefits provided to regular full‑time employees

About The Position

The Senior Product Owner has a key role in Agile development, responsible for maximizing the value of a product. The Senior Product Owner acts as the voice of the customer and stakeholders, translating their needs and vision into actionable tasks for the development team. This position is responsible for executing the product vision, managing the product backlog, and collaborating with various teams to ensure the product meets customer needs and business goals.

Key responsibilities include:

• Connect with the Customer
• Conduct research and connect directly with internal and external customers to gain a comprehensive understanding of their needs
• Leverage research, tools and techniques to build product solutions and features that enhance experiences for customers and co‑workers
• Develop and maintain high‑trust relationships with key stakeholders
• Product Vision & Roadmap
• Partner with Product Managers to develop business cases and product roadmaps that accurately represent the investment and benefits of the products or features to be developed or enhanced
• Manage & Prioritize Backlog
• Capture and translate project requirements into user stories ensuring they are well‑formed, aligned with product strategy, and in compliance with regulatory requirements
• Accept stories and ensure elements such as quality and design have been effectively incorporated
• Foster collaboration with other Product Owners, Architects, Technical Leads and Managers across the agile and dependent teams to ensure successful delivery in accordance with project timelines and budget
• Deliver Value
• Define, track, and communicate key product metrics to stakeholders, ensuring data‑driven decision‑making and continuous improvement across the product lifecycle
• Set quality assurance standards for agile teams, ensure test results adhere to standards and accept product deliverables on behalf of the customer
• Balance short‑term and long‑term goals, make strategic decisions that will benefit the product and drive business value
• Receiving and Applying Feedback
• Champion products and features, present during demonstration and retrospective meetings, and other opportunities to provide updates and sustain alignment with stakeholders.
• Serve as primary liaison and contact for communication.
• Able to resolve conflicts within the team before they become an issue – strong mediator #LI-Hybrid

In addition to the above qualifications, the successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Brings high-energy and a passionate outlook to the job and can effectively influence others
• Able to build a sense of trust and rapport that creates a comfortable & productive workplace
• Proven analytical skills, able to make sound decisions with ambiguous information and possess a high level of organizational skills
• Assertive, with the confidence to be voice of authority – not afraid to do what is best for the team
• Creative self‑starter with strong interpersonal skills - able to work effectively as a team and with various stakeholders at all levels of the organization
• Excellent communication skills, including presentation, written and verbal.
• Ability to promote innovative thinking and self‑improvement within the team
• Confident and skilled at navigating the team through roadblocks to allow sprints to be completed on time
• Ability to coach team on agile practices and ensure adherence to agile methodology to deliver max business value timely
• Able to resolve conflicts within the team before they become an issue – strong mediator

Compensation Range:

$90,500.00 - $140,300.00

At Ameren, base salary is one component of a competitive compensation package for employees. Our pay ranges are broad to allow for movement within our organization and to accommodate different skill sets and levels of expertise. We take into consideration a variety of factors including, but not limited to, skills, abilities, experience, education, credentials, and internal equity when determining the base salary offered. Roles are eligible for additional rewards including annual incentive payments based on individual and company performance.

If end date is listed, the posting will come down at 12:00 am on that date: Monday November 02, 2026

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, military service or status, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other class, trait, or status protected by law.

Ameren is a leader in the energy industry, and our transformation toward more clean, renewable energy is also transforming other industries and infrastructure in our communities. As a regional company serving local customers, we not only serve our communities, we're a part of them. This isn't just a job. At Ameren, we invest in you, so you can power the quality of life you want.