eCommerce Product Owner

Are you an experienced Product Owner with a passion for eCommerce, product strategy, and digital transformation? Do you have a strong background in Shopify, agile methodologies, and leading product development in a fast-paced startup environment? If so, we want to hear from you!

The client is an innovative eCommerce brand dedicated to providing seamless, customer-centric digital shopping experiences. As the Product Owner, you will play a crucial role in defining, refining, and executing their product vision and roadmap, ensuring the platform remains at the forefront of the industry.

The Role

As a Product Owner, you will play a pivotal role in defining, refining, and executing our eCommerce product strategy. Working closely with senior leadership, engineering, and stakeholders, you will ensure our Shopify-based platform delivers best-in-class experiences for our customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Defining & Refining Product Vision and Strategy

• Work with senior management and stakeholders to define and refine product objectives, ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Utilize market insights, analytics, and user feedback to continuously evolve the product vision.
• Maintain a clear, strategic product roadmap that prioritizes value-driven enhancements.
• Oversee the intake, triage, and assessment of product change requests and new requirements.
• Lead backlog refinement sessions, ensuring features are appropriately prioritized based on business impact.
• Keep the roadmap up to date, removing completed or obsolete items while maintaining transparency with stakeholders.
• Create clear documentation and assets that communicate roadmap items effectively to stakeholders and engineering teams.

• Break down roadmap items into epics and user stories, ensuring clarity and alignment with development goals.
• Maintain and prioritize work in Jira, ensuring sprints are structured for maximum efficiency and impact.
• Work closely with the engineering team, answering questions, resolving blockers, and ensuring smooth development cycles.
• Lead and participate in agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and demos.
• Conduct User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and contribute to QA efforts, ensuring high-quality releases.
• Maintain detailed documentation for complex functionality to minimize errors and inefficiencies in future iterations.

• Define and track key product-related metrics, ensuring visibility into product performance.
• Regularly assess metrics against the original vision and objectives, identifying areas for improvement.
• Use insights from data to inform roadmap adjustments and optimize future product decisions.

Who We’re Looking For:

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner in a B2C eCommerce environment.
• Strong technical understanding of web development, PHP, APIs, RDBMS, AWS, and frontend-backend interactions to effectively collaborate with engineers.
• Expertise in Scrum and Kanban, with substantial hands-on experience in both methodologies.
• Extensive experience working with Shopify, including customizing and extending its capabilities to meet business needs.
• Proficiency in Jira, Confluence, and Figma, with experience managing documentation and product assets.
• A track record of successfully delivering Shopify-related software development projects in an eCommerce setting.
• Experience in a startup environment, with a hands-on approach and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving business.