Agile Product Owner

American Red Cross

Agile Product Owner for American Red Cross responsible for maximizing value of technology solutions. Leading Agile teams, prioritizing features, and ensuring technical integrity across systems.

Posted 6/24/2026full-timeRemote • Missouri, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Carolina • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $125,000 - $140,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Act as the Product Owner on an Agile team, managing the team backlog and ensuring alignment with business priorities.
Collaborate with stakeholders to gather, define, and prioritize requirements and translate them into actionable user stories.
Participate in Program Increment (PI) Planning, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
Serve as the subject matter expert for specific business application(s) to the business unit, and liaison to the Information Technology Department and external technical teams as necessary.
Provide escalated user support relating to the utilization of the business application(s).
Research, analyze and apply emerging trends to projects and operations.
Contribute strategic expertise to large-scale initiatives.
Analyze business and user needs, emerging technologies, and risks in order to make recommendations, develop documentation of requirements and translate requirements into proper system specifications.
Ensure systems are optimized to support business objectives and processes.
Lead and participate in efforts related to implementations, releases and systems modifications.
Ensure high data integrity is maintained and reported.
Analyze and validate data.
Design and prepare customized reports, document report specifications and ensure standard reporting procedures are aligned with business reporting requirements.
Execute business application-related processes and transactions as needed.
Develop and execute test procedures and cases as needed.
Develop performance metrics to monitor and improve applications and processes.
Develop project status reports for senior management review.
Ensure compliance with regulatory regulations, Information Security Regulations, and Internal standard operating procedures.
Provide training and guidance to other staff. Lead and contribute expertise to projects.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Education: Bachelor's degree required
Experience: Minimum 10 years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and related experience required
Effective verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to apply technical expertise to resolve problems.
Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks efficiently.
Ability to work on a team.
Ability to be 24-hour on-call during period of major disaster.
Travel: Travel may be required
CSM and CSPO certification preferred.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, Dental Vision plans
Health Spending Accounts & Flexible Spending Accounts
PTO: Starting at 19 days a year; based on type of job and tenure
Holidays: 11 paid holidays comprised of six core holidays and five floating holidays
401K with up to 6% match
Paid Family Leave
Employee Assistance
Disability and Insurance: Short + Long Term
Service Awards and recognition

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Hard Skills & Tools

Agileuser storiesProgram Increment Planningdata analysistest proceduresperformance metricsreport specificationsbusiness application supportsystem specificationsdata integrity

Soft Skills

communication skillsproblem-solvingprioritizationteamworkleadershiptrainingcollaborationstrategic expertiseanalytical skillsadaptability

Certifications

Bachelor's degreeCSMCSPO