Product Owner
Product Owner with Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Information Technology, or a combination of education and experience equating to the U.S. equivalent of a Bachelor’s degree in one of the aforementioned subjects.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Own the end-to-end product lifecycle for subscription platforms, strategy, discovery, requirements, design, development, launch, and post-release optimization, across purchase, upgrade, billing, dunning, and cancellation workflows.
- Translate business goals and end-user needs into product strategy, roadmap, and prioritized epics, features, and user stories with clear, testable acceptance criteria.
- Define subscription lifecycle capabilities across domain-driven microservices , partnering with engineering to specify API contracts, JSON payload schemas, and event-driven integrations between front-end and back-end services.
- Design scalable billing and payment models supporting direct-bill customers and multiple payment methods, including payment-retry/dunning logic, proration, and entitlement management.
- Lead a data-driven experimentation program, defining hypotheses, designing A/B tests, and partnering with data science on sizing and significance, to optimize signup funnels, trial-to-paid conversion, and retention.
- Define canonical metrics (KPIs/OKRs) and build analytics and observability dashboards (Mixpanel, Power BI, New Relic) to measure funnel performance, latency, throughput, error rates, and subscription growth, reconciling definitions across product, marketing, and finance.
- Partner with UX/UI design to define user journeys, workflows, paywalls, and customer experiences, validated through in-person user research and usability testing.
- Integrate third-party and Dealer Services Platform (DSP), defining data contracts and reconciliation logic across services and asset types.
- Drive backend-driven UI / configuration-driven capabilities that let business teams deploy changes without a full release cycle.
- Prioritize and manage the product backlog using impact, confidence, and effort against business outcomes, sequencing work into now/next/later horizons.
- Lead cross-functional delivery across engineering, UX, billing, DSP integrations, finance, legal/compliance, and regional business teams to ship high-quality releases, and facilitate Agile, Design Thinking, and Lean ceremonies (refinement, iteration planning, demos, retrospectives).
- Own go-to-market and phased rollout, pilot deployments, blast-radius-controlled cutovers, and expansion to additional customer groups and asset types, with production validation and support post-Go-Live.
- Apply AI/ML capabilities to product workflows with appropriate governance (field-level validation, conflict checks, and human-in-the-loop review).
- Monitor the competitive landscape and market trends to position the product and recommend best-in-class solutions.
Skills / Knowledge required:
- Product Owner / Product Manager experience owning subscription products end-to-end.
- Deep subscription lifecycle and billing knowledge: trial, conversion, billing cycles, dunning/payment retries, proration, cancellation, and entitlements.
- Payments platform and integration experience (e.g., Stripe); multiple payment methods and direct-bill models.
- Technical fluency to partner with engineering on APIs, data contracts, event-driven workflows, and microservices architectures; ability to reason about system behavior and trade-offs.
- Experimentation and analytics: A/B testing, funnel analysis, and opportunity sizing; proficiency with Mixpanel, Power BI/Tableau, Google Analytics, and SQL.
- Product/system observability using New Relic (latency, throughput, error rates) to monitor health and reliability.
- Cloud and architecture familiarity: AWS, Azure, or GCP; microservices and API-based integrations.
- AI/ML-enabled product features with governance and guardrails.
- Agile/SAFe delivery and tooling: Jira, Confluence, Aha!, Azure DevOps, Trello.
- Design collaboration (Figma) and facilitation of Design Thinking workshops, user research, and usability testing.
- Translating business requirements into functional specifications, PRDs, and actionable backlogs.
- Data instrumentation and canonical metric definition; KPIs/OKRs; reconciliation across data sources.
- Stakeholder management across executives, engineering, design, finance, and legal/compliance.
- Competitive analysis and market research for product positioning and strategy.
Work experience / Technologies required for the position:
- Minimum 6 - 8 years of progressive experience in product management or digital program delivery, preferably in technology-driven or customer-facing organizations.
- Subscription lifecycle experience at scale.
- Proven background leading end-to-end product launches, from concept validation and prototype through pilot rollout to full-scale production.
- Demonstrated enterprise delivery through cross-functional collaboration with engineering, UX, data analytics, and business teams.
- Experience with microservices and API or event-driven architectures deployed on cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Payments integration experience, including dunning and multi-payment-method models.
- Data-driven product management using Mixpanel, Power BI, Looker, or Amplitude, with observability via New Relic, to guide feature performance and prioritization.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps) to coordinate engineering deliverables and releases.
- Proficiency with product lifecycle tools (Jira, Aha!, Azure DevOps, Miro, Confluence) and design tools (Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD).
- Executive-level stakeholder management, including business cases, quarterly product reviews, and ROI assessments.
- Fleet management or enterprise platform experience, and retail, convenience, or digital-commerce domain experience, a strong plus.
- PMP, CSM, CSPO, SAFe POPM, or equivalent product certifications preferred.
Work location is Portland, ME with required travel to client locations throughout USA.
Rite Pros is an equal opportunity employer (EOE).
Please Mail Resumes to:
Rite Pros, Inc.
565 Congress St, Suite # 305
Portland, ME 04101.
Email: resumes@ritepros.com