Product Owner

Join Purple Wave as a Product Owner and help us build the software that powers the nation's leading online equipment auction.

Working hand-in-hand with a cross-functional agile team, you'll turn the needs of our business and customers into a clear, well-ordered backlog and a steady stream of shipped improvements.

AI is part of how we build at Purple Wave--you'll use modern AI tools daily work and help bring AI-powered features to our customers.

If you love breaking big ideas into buildable pieces, making sharp prioritization calls, and seeing your decisions go live iteration after iteration, this role is for you.

Enjoy a competitive salary, a monthly bonus program, comprehensive benefits, and a collaborative, fully remote work culture.

The Product Owner (PO) is the voice of the business and the customer within a Purple Wave agile team.

The PO owns and prioritizes the team's product backlog, translating business goals, subject matter expert (SME) and user feedback into clear, buildable work that the development team can deliver each iteration.

This is a hands-on delivery role: the PO refines the backlog, writes outcomes with well-defined acceptance criteria, makes day-to-day prioritization decisions, and partners closely with the Scrum Master and engineers to keep work flowing.

As AI reshapes how products are built and used, the PO is expected to work fluently with AI tools in their own workflow, help prioritize and deliver AI-powered capabilities on the team's roadmap, and use AI, data, and analytics to sharpen prioritization and measure outcomes.

Success in this role means the team is focused on building the right increment, releases deliver real value, and learnings from each release feed back into a continuously improving product.

Responsibilities: Own, order, and maintain a clear, transparent product backlog that reflects business priorities and delivers the most value first.

Refine the backlog on an ongoing basis with clear, testable acceptance criteria that are ready for the team to pick up.

Translate business needs, SME input, and sometimes ambiguous ideas into well-defined, actionable backlog items.

Set and communicate priorities, making the trade-off and prioritization calls needed to keep the team focused on the highest-value work.

Prioritize and help deliver AI- and data-powered features on the team's roadmap, partnering with engineering and data teams to turn them into shippable customer value.

Use AI, data, and analytics to inform prioritization decisions, measure release outcomes, and identify opportunities for improvement.

Use AI tools in day-to-day product work--drafting and refining stories, summarizing user and stakeholder feedback, researching solutions, and accelerating analysis--while applying sound judgment to the results.

Participate actively in team events--backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives--in partnership with the Scrum Master and development team.

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