Owner, IT Product (Data)
Company: KeHE
Category: IT
Naperville
Type: Full Time
KeHE has an IT Product Owner position to fill. The Product Owner will execute the product strategy and roadmap collaborating closing with principal and engineering leads to ensure the backlog is fully defined and ready to be executed. This role is responsible for prioritizing and communicating the work to the business owner, ensuring that the team delivers solutions that drive measurable outcomes.
The Product Owner partners closely with the leaders of the Product Team to align product work to strategic objectives and collaborates with engineering, design, and business stakeholders to ensure effective delivery and adoption.
Pay Range: $108,680.00/Yr. – $159,236.00/Yr. Benefits on Day 1:Â Health/Rx;Â Dental; Vision;Â Flexible and health spending accounts (FSA/HSA);Â Supplemental life insurance;Â 401(k);Â Paid time off;Â Paid sick time;Â Short-term & long-term disability coverage (STD/LTD); Employee stock ownership (ESOP);Â Holiday pay for company designated holidays.
Essential Functions:
- Execute and communicate product strategy and vision, translating business objectives into actionable roadmaps and prioritized backlogs.
- Translate product vision, strategy, and roadmap into well-defined epics, features, and user stories.
- Make day-to-day scope and priority decisions to maximize value delivered by the team.
- Lead structured product discovery, translating insights from user interviews, process mapping, and business analysis into clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Fully own and maintain the product backlog, prioritizing using value, risk, dependencies, and team capacity.
- Maintain a clear near-term roadmap, balancing new features, technical debt, bugs, and enablers.
- Develop and demonstrate a deep understanding of business processes, personas, pain points, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and user workflows.
- Drive sprint clarity, answer team questions quickly, review and accept work, and support predictable delivery.
- Manage diverse stakeholders, clarify expectations, handle conflict, and deliver clear status updates.
- Collaborate closely with Engineering and UX to ensure requirements are feasible, clearly understood, and testable.
- Accept or reject completed work based on defined acceptance criteria.
- Track delivery and output metrics (e.g., velocity, story completion, adoption, user feedback) to inform prioritization, measure success and define future KPIs.
- Ensure delivered capabilities meet quality standards, acceptance criteria and business intent.
- Demonstrate strong ownership, collaboration, resilience, and a customer-focused product mindset.
