Product Owner

1w1 week ago

Agate Software

Glendale, US · Full-time · $115,000 – $155,000

About this role

At Agate Software, we revolutionize how government agencies and nonprofits manage grant processes. Our solutions empower customers to maximize resources, drive compliance, and focus on distributing funding for social services. Success is built on Innovation, Integrity, and Impact over 20 years.

We're seeking a high-ownership Product Owner for Professional Services delivery of highly configurable enterprise software. This role bridges customer needs, internal priorities, and development-ready work amid complex, high-stakes public-sector implementations. It's hands-on, not passive or abstract strategy.

You'll manage backlogs, translate needs into epics and user stories, ensure Definition of Ready, and drive clarity before sprints. Thrive in fast-moving environments with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and incomplete information. Create structure from disorder, ask hard questions, and protect engineering focus.

Join brightest minds challenging the status quo in grant management innovation. Operate knee-deep in customer work, sprint planning, QA alignment, and execution. Apply expertise in this dynamic, growth-oriented, mission-driven setting.

Requirements

High-ownership mindset with discipline, clarity, and execution control for complex delivery
Ability to bridge customer needs, internal priorities, and development-ready work
Energized by complex, ambiguous, high-stakes enterprise software for public-sector customers
Instinct to create structure from disorder and force clarity through hard questions
Comfort operating in fast-moving, imperfect environments with shifting priorities
Protect engineering focus while driving decisions and owning outcomes without perfect inputs
Hands-on experience with implementations, backlog readiness, and sprint processes

Responsibilities

Own and manage a prioritized delivery backlog for customer implementation and platform configuration work
Translate customer and internal stakeholder needs into clear epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and testable requirements
Ensure backlog items meet the Definition of Ready before they enter sprint planning
Drive clarity before development starts so engineering and QA are not forced to interpret intent mid-sprint
Partner with customers, delivery leaders, developers, QA analysts, and configurators
Align on what engineering builds, why it matters, success criteria, and necessary tradeoffs
Participate in sprint planning, acceptance criteria definition, QA alignment, and delivery execution

Benefits

Hybrid schedule with 3 days required onsite and 2 days remote after first 90 days
Mission-driven work revolutionizing grant management for social services impact
Dynamic environment at forefront of industry innovation for over 20 years