Product Owner with strong retirement domain

Job Title: Product Owner

Location: Austin, TX(onsite/Hybrid)

Salary: 120-130K/year + Benefits

Key Skills: Retirement Planning (401(k)) | Domain APIs | AI-Enabled Delivery

IDEAL CANDIDATE: retirement-domain product leader who can operate effectively with plan-services SMEs, Client Product, architects and engineers, converting complex business and technical ambiguity into clear, prioritized and measurable API outcomes.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Partner with the Client Product Owner to define product goals, priorities, roadmap increments, sprint outcomes and acceptance decisions.
• Own and continuously refine epics, features, user stories, technical enablers, acceptance criteria, dependencies and non-functional requirements.
• Lead retirement-domain discovery and translate 401(k) business rules, journeys, data needs, plan variations and exception scenarios into executable backlog items.
• Work with architects and engineers to define bounded contexts, ubiquitous language, aggregates, entities, value objects, domain events and capability-aligned APIs.
• Define API consumer needs, business operations, payload intent, validations, errors, versioning, service levels and channel acceptance criteria.
• Connect legacy code, stored procedures, interfaces and existing APIs to validated business rules and target-state domain capabilities.
• Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning and reviews; provide timely clarification so the Client team can operate Consultantly.
• Use Client-approved AI tools to accelerate business-rule discovery, story drafting, Gherkin scenarios, documentation and traceability.
• Validate all AI-generated outputs with domain and technical SMEs and maintain human accountability for product decisions.

Communicate scope, priorities, risks, trade-offs and delivery progress in concise, executive-ready language

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• 10+ years in product ownership, business analysis or technology delivery, including 5+ years as a Product Owner, Proxy Product Owner or Lead Business Analyst.
• Strong U.S. Retirement Planning / Retirement Plan Services knowledge, with demonstrated expertise in the 401(k) line of business.
• Hands-on experience supporting API modernization, microservices, API-led transformation or domain-capability initiatives.
• Working knowledge of Domain-Driven Design, Agile / Scrum delivery, backlog management and behavior-driven acceptance criteria.
• Ability to read and discuss REST APIs, JSON payloads, integration flows, error handling, dependencies and technical architecture artifacts.
• Practical experience with enterprise AI assistants or generative AI for analysis, requirements, documentation, testing or software delivery.
• Excellent facilitation, stakeholder management, analytical thinking, written communication and executive presentation skills.
• PREFERRED TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE
• Event-driven integration, messaging, SQL and stored-procedure-driven business logic.
• BDD / Gherkin, automated API testing, CI/CD, security, resiliency and observability.
• Cloud and enterprise platform concepts relevant to modern API delivery.
• SUCCESS MEASURES
• Decision-ready backlog with clear, testable acceptance criteria before sprint commitment.
• Reduced delivery delays, story carryover and rework caused by requirement ambiguity.
• Validated 401(k) rules mapped to reusable domain capabilities and channel use cases.
• Measurable AI-enabled improvement in cycle time, quality, traceability or test coverage.
• Clear stakeholder visibility into priorities, risks, dependencies and outcomes.

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