Senior AI Product Owner

Ascensus is the leading independent technology and service platform powering savings plans across America, providing products and expertise that help nearly 16 million people save for a better today and tomorrow. Position Summary As a Senior Product Owner, Enterprise AI Platform, you will define, prioritize, and drive execution of platform capabilities that turn modern AI technology into practical, reliable, and measurable business value. This role provides product ownership and delivery leadership across multiple scrum teams. You will partner closely with: • Software Engineers • SDETs • DevOps Engineers • Support Engineers • Architects • Product leaders • AI specialists • Business stakeholders • Operational leaders This is a senior product ownership role for someone who can balance business outcomes, user needs, technical complexity, delivery execution, responsible AI adoption, and team effectiveness. You will be responsible for: • Defining and maintaining the roadmap for Enterprise AI Platform capabilities • Prioritizing team backlogs based on business value, user impact, risk, dependencies, and platform strategy • Translating business needs into clear epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes • Representing users, internal customers, and stakeholders throughout planning, delivery, validation, and release • Partnering with engineering, architecture, AI, support, operations, and business teams to deliver production-grade AI capabilities • Staying informed on emerging AI tools, models, workflows, and platform patterns • Partnering with technical teams to shape demos, POCs, pilots, and early concepts that validate value before larger investment • Helping teams operate effectively by applying Agile practices pragmatically, not performatively This role requires an AI product builder mindset: the ability to combine product ownership, user experience thinking, technical curiosity, and AI-assisted prototyping to help teams validate ideas quickly and focus on the highest-value opportunities. The Senior Product Owner should be comfortable using demos, workflow sketches, lightweight prototypes, user feedback, and production data to shape product direction before larger engineering investment is made. AI prototyping is increasingly becoming part of modern product discovery because product leaders can use AI tools to turn PRDs, sketches, and designs into working prototypes faster than traditional handoff cycles. What We re Looking For We are looking for a senior product owner who can balance product strategy, delivery execution, stakeholder alignment, technical curiosity, team effectiveness, and business value realization. The ideal candidate is someone who: • Has strong product ownership experience in technology-driven environments • Can oversee product direction and backlog health across multiple scrum teams • Can translate business goals into clear, actionable team backlogs • Writes strong user stories, acceptance criteria, and product requirements • Thinks deeply about user workflows, usability, adoption, and the associate experience • Uses wireframes, workflow sketches, journey maps, lightweight prototypes, or AI-assisted demos to clarify product direction and gather feedback • Is naturally curious about AI, automation, platform capabilities, and emerging technology • Can partner with technical leaders to turn early ideas into demos, POCs, pilots, or backlog-ready capabilities • Prioritizes competing needs across users, stakeholders, dependencies, technical constraints, and delivery capacity • Applies Agile Scrum practices selectively when they improve clarity, alignment, delivery, or continuous improvement • Helps identify blockers, dependency issues, team friction, and process gaps • Can facilitate planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and cross-team coordination when useful • Partners well with engineers, SDETs, DevOps engineers, support teams, architects, AI specialists, business stakeholders, and senior leaders Required Qualifications • 7+ years of professional experience in product ownership, product management, business analysis, technology delivery, software engineering, quality engineering, or a related field. • 4+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, or similar role supporting software delivery teams. • Experience providing product ownership or delivery leadership across multiple scrum teams, products, workstreams, or complex initiatives. • Experience owning or supporting product roadmaps, team backlogs, feature prioritization, sprint planning, and release planning. • Experience translating business needs into clear epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes. • Strong understanding of Agile delivery practices and modern software development life cycle practices. • Ability to apply Agile practices pragmatically, using planning, refinement, revie...