Senior Product Owner

OnPay; United States; Remote; USD 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus and stock options

PTO and holidays

Medical/dental/vision coverage

Disability insurance

Parental leave

401(k) with company match

Job summary

OnPay seeks a hands-on Senior Product Owner to bridge business priorities with day-to-day engineering in a fast-moving SaaS environment. You will own backlog prioritization, untangle complex dependencies, and drive features to completion with speed, clarity, and quality.

You will partner with engineering, design, and support teams, manage the backlog across features, fixes, and technical debt, and craft clear user stories with acceptance criteria.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of direct experience as a Product Owner or Lead Business Analyst in Agile environments.
• FinTech/payroll/HR domain logic experience preferred.
• Clear, concise story-writing and effective meeting facilitation skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering leads to ensure work is well-structured and on track for launch.
• Manage and prioritize the team backlog, balancing features, bugs, debt, and operational improvements.
• Translate complex business logic into clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies: backlog refinement, story mapping, sprint planning, daily standups.
• Identify dependencies and impediments, negotiating solutions within sprints.
• Collaborate with Design, Support, Implementation, and Product Strategy to gather requirements and enable releases.
• Review stories against acceptance criteria to ensure quality before release.

Skills

Story writing

Facilitation

Autonomous

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Miro

Job description

Role overview

• Hands-on Senior Product Owner serving as the execution lead bridging business priorities and day-to-day engineering work inside a lean, fast-moving SaaS product organization. The role owns backlog prioritization, untangles complex functional dependencies, and drives features across the finish line with a focus on speed, clarity, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with engineering leads and developers to ensure work is well-structured, clearly understood, and progressing toward launch commitments.
• Actively manage and prioritize the team backlog, balancing new feature requests, customer bug fixes, technical debt, and operational improvements.
• Dig into complex business logic, edge cases, system dependencies, and workflows to produce clear, unambiguous user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Facilitate crisp Agile ceremonies, including backlog refinement, story mapping, sprint planning, and daily stand-ups, focused on team throughput.
• Proactively identify dependencies, clear impediments, and negotiate solutions when technical or business challenges arise during a sprint.
• Collaborate with Design, Customer Support, Implementation, and Product Strategy to gather requirements, manage expectations, and support smooth release rollouts.
• Review completed stories against acceptance criteria to ensure delivered features meet functional standards before release.

Requirements

• 5+ years of direct experience as a Product Owner or Lead Business Analyst driving software delivery in an Agile (Scrum/Kanban) environment.
• Demonstrated experience handling complex SaaS workflows, B2B software systems, or financial/payroll/HR domain logic, with FinTech background preferred.
• Comfortable diving into technical details, complex workflows, and data structures alongside developers.
• Confident making pragmatic trade-off decisions between speed, scope, and technical quality.
• Clear, concise story-writing skills and effective meeting facilitation that keeps cross-functional teams aligned.
• Highly autonomous self-starter who takes ownership of problems and drives them to resolution without waiting for direction.
• Hands‑on proficiency with tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Miro; bachelor's degree preferred; CSPO, CSM, or equivalent certification is a plus.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote role open to candidates anywhere in the U.S., with optional access to a collaborative Atlanta headquarters.
• Base salary range of $105,000–$140,000, plus bonus and stock options.
• Four weeks of PTO plus paid holidays, medical/dental/vision coverage, short- and long-term disability, life insurance, fertility benefits, parental leave, and a 401(k) with company match.