Intermediate Product Owner at Provoke Solutions in Dallas, Texas, United States
- Company: Provoke Solutions
- Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
- Posted: Sep 18, 2026
- Type: Full-time
- Experience: 3+ years
Overview
About the job Intermediate Product Owner We are looking for a Product Owner with 2-3+ years of experience to help shape, manage, and deliver custom software development products with teams of humans using Gen AI at every step of the software development lifecycle. This is a client-facing, hands-on r…
Job description
- About the job Intermediate Product Owner
- We are looking for a Product Owner with 2-3+ years of experience to help shape, manage, and deliver custom software development products with teams of humans using Gen AI at every step of the software development lifecycle. This is a client-facing, hands-on role that combines agile product ownership with delivery execution. You'll collaborate closely with designers, engineers, and client stakeholders to define and prioritize work that drives measurable business outcomes.
- Please note: Must be willing to travel to our client sites as needed.
Responsibilities
- Backlog & Product Execution
- Collaborate with clients and delivery teams to define and maintain a well-prioritized product backlog
- Write, refine, and manage user stories, epics, and acceptance criteria that are clear and actionable
- Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, and review sessions
- Ensure team members understand business context and goals behind features and user stories
- Validate features post-development and support release coordination activities
- Delivery Collaboration
- Lead effective meetings through preparation, facilitation of productive discussions, and driving to clear outcomes and action items
- Participate in delivery planning and sprint execution with cross-functional teams
- Help manage delivery timelines, team coordination, and status reporting
- Raise delivery risks, blockers, and scope issues as they arise
- Partner with tech leads and designers to ensure product feasibility and alignment
- Track delivery KPIs (velocity, sprint completion, etc.) and contribute to retrospectives
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Act as the voice of the customer and ensure stakeholder needs are well-represented in the backlog
- Support client demos, working sessions, and alignment meetings
- Help facilitate decision-making around priorities, MVP scope, and delivery tradeoffs
Requirements
- 2-3+ years of experience in product ownership, product management, or related delivery roles for custom software development
- Currently embracing and leveraging Gen AI professionally or personally
- Proven ability to define and prioritize backlogs for digital or software products
- Hands-on experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe)
- Comfortable working with tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with a client-facing mindset
- Consulting or professional services experience is a plus
- Experience in CMS platforms, workflow automation, or customer-facing web apps is a bonus
- Product certifications or training such as PSPO or CSPO are preferred but not required
Skills
Required
- Product ownership
- Product management
- Backlog management
- User story writing
- Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Client-facing mindset
Preferred
- CMS platforms
- Workflow automation
- Customer-facing web apps
- Product certifications (PSPO, CSPO)
Benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- 15 days of PTO and holidays
- Give you your birthday off
- 401k
- Provide you with an environment where high performance is not only recognized but rewarded.
About Provoke Solutions
Provoke is a global consulting firm building AI-native solutions that transform how work gets done. Founded on a culture of innovation, growth, and curiosity, we partner with global clients to design and deploy agentic AI embedded directly into workflows so teams move faster, think smarter, and scale with purpose. What We Do We build bespoke software using modern technologies to help our clients solve complex business problems, achieve operational excellence, and flourish in an increasingly digital world. The Provoke Experience We are committed to building high-performing, diverse teams. We provide tangible rewards for effort, with purposeful in-person collaboration and learning opportunities to fast-track your career. We focus on diversity in race, gender, orientation, and experience, because we know diversity fuels innovation.