Senior Product Owner

CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. Even with more than 8,500 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you.

CLA is dedicated to building a culture that invites different beliefs and perspectives to the table, so we can truly know and help our clients, communities, and each other.

Our Perks:

• Flexible PTO (designed to offer flexible time away for you!)
• Up to 12 weeks paid parental leave
• Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Mental health coverage
• Quarterly Wellness stipend
• Fertility benefits
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CLA is growing and seeking to hire an experienced System Product Owner to join our talented Information Technology team. The position offers growth, flexibility and a collaborative work environment.

In this position you should have the following; excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate at all levels. Strong problem solving and creative skills and the ability to exercise sound judgment. Most important, demonstrate a high level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency and results-orientation.

This role drives business value through full-stack, end-to-end product ownership for a complete product or significant product area-from discovery through delivery to post-launch optimization. This role integrates outcome-focused strategy, continuous discovery, delivery execution, and operational sustainability with technical depth and accountability. Partners with product leadership to develop product vision and strategy while owning execution within the product area. Leveraging business and technical fluency, the role balances short-term goals with long-term vision and bridges gaps between stakeholders, technical teams, and users to deliver measurable outcomes in an Agile environment.

How you'll create opportunities in this Senior Product Owner role:

Continuous Discovery

* Partner with product leadership and business stakeholders to shape the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the assigned product area.

* Lead discovery using qualitative and quantitative research to validate user problems and identify opportunities within defined scope.

* Translate discovery insights into hypotheses and actionable backlog items with confirmed feasibility and outcome alignment.

* Communicate priorities, findings, and progress clearly to maintain alignment across stakeholders.

Requirements / Backlog Management

* Develop PRDs, process flows, and prototypes that define user needs, business goals, and functional/non-functional requirements for the product area.

* Own and prioritize the backlog using MoSCoW, Value-Effort analysis, and RICE to balance time-to-market, scalability, and technical debt.

* Translate product vision into epics, features, and user stories with clear acceptance criteria, dependencies, and compliance considerations.

* Gather feedback and behavioral data to refine backlog items that meet Definition of Ready and Definition of Done while coordinating with product leadership on cross-team risks and dependencies.

Technical & Solution Alignment

* Collaborate with engineering and architecture to ensure requirements translate to viable technical solutions aligned to platform patterns.

* Evaluate technical tradeoffs and provide input on scalability, extensibility, auditability, and integration approaches.

* Anticipate downstream needs such as data structures, validation logic, audit trails, and reusable components.

Continuous Delivery and Execution

* Own delivery execution for the product area from validated requirements through production release and post-launch enhancements.

* Facilitate Agile ceremonies including PI Planning, sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives.

* Define delivery milestones and success criteria in partnership with Scrum Masters, RTEs, and program/project managers.

* Monitor progress, remove impediments, and ensure delivery aligns with OKRs, quality standards, and timelines.

Stakeholder Collaboration and Cross-Functional Influence

* Serve as the primary product interface for business owners, technology partners, end users, and delivery teams.

* Manage conflicting priorities through structured rationale, data insights, and outcome[1]focused communication.

* Communicate progress, risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs transparently; escalate to the Director when needed.

* Promote agility, experimentation, and continuous learning within the product area while modeling systems thinking.

Performance Optimization and Improvement

* Define and analyze product performance against KPIs to identify areas for enhancement.

* Prioritize improvements to user experience, workflow quality, system performance, and business outcomes.

* Drive post-launch iteration using continuous learning to inform the roadmap and operational processes.

What you will need:

• 4 years of relevant experience required.
• Bachelor's degree or a combination of relevant experience and training may be considered in lieu of a degree.

Technical Competencies:

* Systems Thinking: Integrates business, technical, and user requirements across enterprise systems, synthesizing dependencies to drive scalable, outcome-focused solutions.

* Technical Fluency: Guides technical discussions on software engineering, APIs, data integration, and enterprise architectures, ensuring solutions align with business and user needs.

* Prioritization Discipline: Drives prioritization using frameworks (e.g., MOSCOW, Value-Effort, RICE, KANO) to balance stakeholder demands, technical constraints, and CLA's OKRs.

* User-Centered Design Principles: Guides user-centric product requirements for enterprise applications, leveraging Design Thinking and user research to ensure intuitive, accessible outcomes.

* Analytical Acumen: Synthesizes qualitative and quantitative data to drive strategic decisions, validate hypotheses, and optimize product performance against business outcomes.

* Agile Execution: Leads dual-track (Discovery & Delivery) Agile processes (Scrum, Lean, SAFe), aligning cross-functional teams to deliver complex integrations with measurable impact.

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Wellness at CLA

To support our CLA family members, we focus on their physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being and offer comprehensive benefit options that include health, dental, vision, 401k and much more.

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