Product Owner

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Job Description:

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Lead continuous improvement by using candidate/Staffer feedback and performance data to identify friction, run pilots/A/B tests when appropriate, scale what works, and stop what doesn’t.

• Represent the candidate/Staffer voice in prioritization and decision-making across the product lifecycle.

• Partner with cross-functional owners to clarify scope, manage tradeoffs, and ship high-quality iterations that deliver measurable value.

• Define “ready” work by turning needs into clear backlog items with user stories and acceptance criteria for features, enhancements, and workflows.

• Publish outcome readouts tied to KPIs and experiments (what changed, what moved, what’s next) and use the insights to re-prioritize.

• Define and communicate the Talent Community product goal(s) and success measures, aligned to business priorities.

• Run the Talent Community Committee cadence for intake, prioritization, decisioning, escalation, and dependency management, keeping stakeholders aligned on priorities, constraints, and rationale.

• Own and maintain a transparent backlog and roadmap, prioritizing by value, effort, risk, and dependencies, and pushing back on misaligned requests to protect focus and capacity.

• Translate Talent Community strategy into clear product goals, success measures, and backlog priorities.

Requirements:

• 3+ years in a Product Owner (or equivalent) role with backlog ownership and demonstrated prioritization authority.

• Experience defining success metrics (KPIs) and using performance insights to reprioritize roadmaps/backlogs.

• Familiarity with experimentation and measurement (A/B testing, segmentation/cohorts, funnel analysis).

• Experience leading cross-functional governance (cadences, decisioning, escalation, dependency alignment) and managing stakeholder tradeoffs.

• Experience partnering with technical delivery teams in iterative environments (preferred).

• Experience in staffing, talent acquisition, onboarding, lifecycle programs, or talent development (preferred).

Key Skills:

Technical (Required)

• BI and dashboard literacy

• Experimentation and measurement

• Data interpretation and insight communication

• Requirements documentation

• Data quality and governance basics

Technical (Preferred)

• Data querying literacy

• Automation/analysis tooling familiarity

• Version control familiarity

• Data pipeline and integration awareness

• Transformation framework awareness

Behavioral (Required)

• Business acumen

• Stakeholder management

• Coaching and feedback

Software and Tools Required: Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook, Planner), Workday, Copilot.

Work Shift: