Product Owner, Entry Level

Position Summary

Our client is looking for an entry-level Product Owner to join our Product & Delivery practice. This is a hybrid role for someone early in their career who wants hands-on experience translating business needs into working software on real client engagements, with direct mentorship from experienced Product Owners and Delivery leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with senior Product Owners and Delivery Leads to translate client business requirements into clear, well-structured user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain and groom the product backlog, ensuring stories are prioritized, estimated, and ready for sprint planning.
• Support day-to-day communication with client stakeholders, gathering feedback and clarifying requirements throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Participate in and help facilitate agile ceremonies — sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Work closely with engineering, QA, and UX teams to ensure delivered features meet acceptance criteria and business intent.
• Track and report on sprint progress, flagging risks, blockers, and scope changes to the Delivery Lead.
• Contribute to solution documentation, including process flows, requirements docs, and release notes.
• Support UAT coordination, including test case review and defect triage.
• Help define and track success metrics for features and releases, and support post-launch review of outcomes.
• Build foundational knowledge of composable commerce platforms and practices used across Aries engagements (e.g., commercetools, BigCommerce, Algolia).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 0–2 years of professional experience; internships or coursework in product management or business analysis are a plus.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work across both technical and business audiences.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing multiple priorities and shifting requirements.
• Genuine curiosity about eCommerce, digital transformation, and how software products get built.
• Familiarity with agile/scrum concepts and tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps) is a plus, but not required.
• A collaborative, ownership-driven mindset — comfortable asking questions and taking initiative in a fast-moving consulting environment.

What we offer

• Direct mentorship from experienced Product Owners and Delivery leadership.
• Real client-facing exposure early in your career, across composable commerce and AI-driven engagements.
• A fully remote work environment that balances flexibility with in-person collaboration.
• A growing firm where you can help shape delivery practices as we scale our Product & Solution Delivery capability.