Product Owner

AI2IO helps organizations navigate the complex landscape of technology solutions, from foundational IT services and system support to advanced software integration, automation, and cutting-edge AI implementations. Our expertise spans IT infrastructure management, custom software development, seamless system integrations, and optimization of low-code business automation, empowering clients to maximize their existing technology investments.

Join us and be part of a team where your voice matters, your work makes an impact, and your growth is a shared priority.

Position Title

Product Owner

Position Location

Remote - work virtually from anywhere in the United States

Job Summary

AI2IO is seeking a Product Owner to own the day-to-day product and delivery operating model for a software development team. You will partner with engineers, designers, QA specialists, project managers, client-facing teams, and business stakeholders to discover meaningful problems, define valuable solutions, prioritize work, facilitate Agile delivery, and validate outcomes.

This role combines product ownership, requirements analysis, Agile facilitation, and delivery coordination. Project Managers own roadmap updates and integrated delivery coordination, Client Success Managers assist with stakeholder communication, and Product Adoption & Training partners own documentation, training, and adoption support. The Product Owner serves as the central source of product context, decisions, priorities, requirements, and outcome validation.

Essential Functions

This role combines hands-on product ownership with increasing responsibility for discovery, prioritization, Agile team facilitation, cross-functional coordination, and delivery effectiveness.

Own Product Direction & Priorities

• Own backlog prioritization and work readiness for an assigned software delivery team.
• Collaborate with users, stakeholders, and others to understand business needs and desired outcomes.
• Translate business problems into actionable product work.
• Evaluate competing priorities, risks, dependencies, and delivery constraints.
• Ensure delivered work aligns with product goals and user needs.

Lead Discovery & Requirements Development

• Facilitate discovery sessions with stakeholders, users, and subject-matter experts.
• Create workflows, user stories, business rules, acceptance criteria, and supporting requirements.
• Identify assumptions, dependencies, risks, and edge cases early.
• Help the team understand the problem before committing to a solution.
• Validate proposed solutions against intended outcomes.

Facilitate Agile Delivery

• Facilitate Agile team ceremonies and maintain a healthy delivery process.
• Help the team remove blockers and resolve delivery issues.
• Promote continuous improvement through retrospectives and delivery feedback.
• Maintain visibility into team priorities, commitments, dependencies, and risks.
• Improve predictability, transparency, and team effectiveness.

Coordinate Across Teams & Functions

• Partner with Product Design, QA, Engineering, Client Success, Product Adoption & Training, and Project Management.
• Align stakeholders around product decisions and delivery priorities.
• Coordinate dependencies affecting delivery outcomes.
• Ensure handoffs remain clear and product intent remains consistent throughout implementation.

Validate Outcomes

• Participate in release-readiness activities.
• Validate delivered functionality against approved requirements and intended workflows.
• Gather feedback after release and incorporate learning into future priorities.
• Help ensure completed work achieves meaningful user and business outcomes.

Grow Your Product Leadership Capability

• Take on increasingly complex initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, workflows, integrations, and business processes.
• Develop stronger prioritization, facilitation, discovery, and delivery-leadership skills.
• Build readiness for future advancement into Senior Product Owner, Product Management, or Solution Delivery leadership opportunities as ai2io continues to grow.

Performs Other Related Duties as Assigned

What Success Looks Like

• Teams consistently receive clear, actionable, prioritized, and testable work.
• Product decisions reflect user needs, business outcomes, technical realities, and informed tradeoffs.
• Agile ceremonies produce alignment, decisions, learning, and improvement rather than administrative overhead.
• Risks, blockers, and dependencies are surfaced early and addressed proactively.
• Stakeholders understand priorities, decisions, constraints, and delivery expectations.
• Cross-functional teams trust the Product Owner as a reliable partner.
• Delivered solutions achieve intended user and business outcomes.

Position Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in product ownership, business analysis, Agile delivery, software product development, solution delivery, or a related discipline.
• Experience supporting software development teams in a Product Owner, Business Analyst, Scrum Master, Product Management, or comparable role.
• Experience creating user stories, acceptance criteria, workflows, requirements, and backlog-ready work.
• Working knowledge of Agile and Scrum delivery practices.
• Ability to facilitate discussions involving competing priorities and stakeholder needs.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across technical and business teams.
• Experience balancing user value, quality, feasibility, delivery risk, and business priorities.
• Product Owner, Scrum, Agile, Business Analysis, or related certifications.
• Experience with enterprise software, internal business applications, workflow tools, AI-enabled platforms, data-intensive applications, or digital-transformation initiatives.
• Experience collaborating with Design, Engineering, QA, Project Management, and customer-facing teams.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Microsoft 365, Jira, or comparable delivery-management platforms.

Why ai2io

• Own meaningful product and delivery decisions.
• Work closely with talented engineering, design, and delivery professionals.
• Influence how modern business applications are developed and delivered.
• Build skills that prepare you for senior product and leadership opportunities.
• Join a collaborative Microsoft-centric technology organization focused on solving real business problems.

Travel / Relocation Requirements

• Up to 5%, this may include travel to any or all 50 US states
• Travel is defined as physically leaving home on behalf of business activities including but not limited to client sites, meetings with other employees, meeting for business development purposes, running errands on behalf of the business, attending industry conferences, etc.

Education / Experience Requirements

• 3-5 years of relevant professional experience in product ownership, business analysis, Agile delivery, software product development, solution delivery, or a related discipline.
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Product Management, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Design, or a related field preferred; equivalent practical experience will be considered.

Benefits

AI2IO offers a very competitive benefits package; highlights include

• Choice of comprehensive medical plans (including two PPO-style plans and a HDHP w/ HSA option)
• Flex spending accounts (FSA)
• Dental and vision plans
• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision benefits extended to spouse / domestic partner and dependent children up to age 26
• 401k with company match and self-directed brokerage account option
• PTO including additional paid time off during the last week of the year
• Company paid life insurance coverage for employees and their eligible dependents
• Short and long-term disability, AD&D coverage
• Professional development opportunities, tuition reimbursement and professional licensing assistance
• Paid parental leave after one year of employment

CO, CA, IL, NY, WA, and Washington DC residents only: In accordance with CO, CA, IL, NY, WA, and Washington DC law, the range provided is AI2IO's reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may differ based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and location.

AI2IO is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and participates in the E-Verify program with the Department of Homeland Security. We encourage diversity in our workforce.

​NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:

AI2IO does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to AI2IO in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where AI2IO has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of AI2IO and AI2IO will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.