Product Owner

Who We Are TrueComp partners with over 1,000 public sector agencies to modernize workforce planning, compensation, and benefits analysis. Its intuitive platform and expert consulting empower HR and finance leaders with transparency, efficiency, and equity to make smarter decisions in recruitment, retention, and budgeting. TrueComp provides instant and actionable insights to help government organizations attract top talent, optimize labor strategies, and achieve long-term fiscal sustainability. Dedicated to simplifying workforce challenges, TrueComp’s solutions enable data-driven decisions that improve organizational performance and drive meaningful outcomes. TrueComp was recognized among the Top 100 Government Services companies on the 2024 Inc. 5000. About the role TrueComp is expanding its product organization to support continued growth across our core workforce analytics product lines: TrueComp Benchmarking, Labor Costing, and TrueComp Intelligence. The Product Owner will be embedded with one of our two agile engineering teams and will serve as the primary product partner for that team. This role reports directly to the Chief Product Officer and works in close collaboration with Product Management, Engineering, and all TrueComp departments. The Product Owner is responsible for translating customer needs and business objectives into a well-defined, prioritized backlog of work, and for ensuring that the engineering team consistently delivers high-value outcomes through disciplined agile execution. What you'll do Maintain a prioritized product backlog, including the authoring of user stories with clear, testable acceptance criteria Engage directly with customers and internal stakeholders to gather requirements, validate solutions, and ensure that the voice of the customer is reflected in product decisions Facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives in partnership with engineering leadership Communicate sprint priorities, release goals, and roadmap commitments to stakeholders across the organization Leverage AI tools, including Claude and comparable solution, to accelerate requirements development, prototype validation, user story creation, and discovery activities Partner with Product Management and User Experience to ensure that delivered features meet both customer expectations and product strategy objectives Collaborate effectively with engineering teams across multiple time zones, including TrueComp’s offshore engineering partners. Contribute to the broader product vision, strategy, and roadmap in coordination with product leadership Qualifications Minimum of three years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or comparable role within an agile software development environment Demonstrated proficiency using AI tools such as Claude or ChatGPT in day-to-day product work, including requirements drafting, prototyping, and discovery. Candidates should be prepared to discuss specific examples during the interview process Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex requirements clearly to technical and non-technical audiences Proficiency with backlog and roadmap management tools such as Jira or Aha! Demonstrated ability to decompose ambiguous business problems into clearly scoped, deliverable increments of work Experience collaborating with engineering teams across the full software development lifecycle Bachelor’s degree; advanced degree is a plus Experience supporting offshore or distributed engineering teams, preferred Experience in B2B SaaS, particularly at a high-growth organization, preferred Domain experience in human resources technology, compensation, workforce planning, or government technology, preferred Prior experience working with public sector customers, preferred