Product Owner
Job description
About the role
The role translates customer needs and market insights into a clear product direction. The Product Owner ensures engineering delivers the highest value work in each sprint for energy market analytics. Success requires comfort operating in a fast-moving, data-intensive environment with complex regulations.
Product managers decide what a team builds and why. They gather customer feedback, define requirements, and set priorities. Product work spans engineering, design, and business teams and ships products that solve real problems. The role combines research, writing, analysis, and decision making under uncertainty. Product work happens at the intersection of user needs, business goals, and technical feasibility. Most product managers own a roadmap and are judged by the outcomes their teams ship.
Key facts
What you'll do
Decisions are made defensibly and explained clearly to stakeholders.
Break down epics into sprint-ready work while preserving the business context.
Resolve cross-team dependencies before they block delivery.
Ensure launches are documented and tied to measurable outcomes.
Close the feedback loop with customers so delivery leads to real value.
Requirements
1+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or Business Analyst in a software product environment.
Demonstrated Agile/Scrum experience with sprint ceremonies, backlog management, user story writing, and acceptance criteria definition.
Strong written and verbal communication skills to translate complex technical and business concepts for different audiences.
Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, design, QA, and customer-facing teams.
Ability to manage competing priorities and make transparent, defensible tradeoff decisions.
Proficiency with Agile project management tooling such as Jira or Azure DevOps.
Comfort operating in technically complex, data-intensive product environments with ambiguous or evolving requirements.
Comfort using AI tools such as Claude and ChatGPT as accelerators in product work, including drafting user stories, synthesizing research, and prototyping. We expect practitioners, not observers.
Proficiency with Google Workspace or Microsoft Office, including spreadsheet fundamentals and collaborative document tools.
Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, Geography/GIS, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
CSPO, PSPO, or SAFe POPM certification.
Strong SQL skills and hands-on experience with data platforms such as Snowflake, Oracle, Tableau, or Sigma.
Experience with energy markets, ISO/RTO operations, or energy data products.
Background in financial data, real-time market analytics, or complex data products in regulated industries.
Practical notes
This role is based in Boulder, Colorado, with hybrid work requiring 2 days in the office.
Typical interview steps
Product interviews often include a product sense round, an analytical round, and a behavioral round. Candidates may be asked to design a feature, prioritize a backlog, or estimate a metric. Some loops include a case exercise. Strong candidates show structured thinking and customer empathy. Interviewers want to see how you prioritize when everything matters. Walking through your decision criteria out loud is a strong habit in product interviews.
Good to know
The role focuses on product ownership in a regulated, data-intensive energy analytics environment.
AI tools are used actively to draft user stories, synthesize research, and support agile workflows.
Professional development is supported continuously through daily and yearly learning opportunities.
Career growth
Product careers usually move from associate to product manager, then to senior, group, or director levels. Some people specialize in growth, platform, or enterprise products. Others move into general management. Success depends on shipped outcomes rather than shipped output. Product careers often reward generalists early and specialists later. Experience shipping measurable outcomes is the strongest signal for promotion.