Product Owner

Benchmark Analytics

Product Owner overseeing product surface within law enforcement analytics platform. Collaborating with engineers to deliver features and specifications using AI tools.

Posted 5/22/2026full-timeRemote • Illinois • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $100,000 - $160,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own your product surface end to end — deciding what gets built, when it ships, and how it serves your users or consuming teams, with full accountability for scope, priority, and quality.
Produce engineering-ready specifications for all features — complete user flows, visual designs, data requirements, edge cases, and acceptance criteria — using AI tools as a core part of your workflow; engineering builds from your specifications directly, without ambiguity about what the experience should be.
Make priority decisions and defend them — customer success, sales, and leadership will bring you requests; you decide which enter the roadmap and which don’t, with clear reasoning and transparent communication.
Maintain deep fluency with your customers — whether they are law enforcement practitioners, agency administrators, internal platform consumers, or data science teams — through direct engagement, user research, and ongoing relationship-building.
Conduct or commission user research as needed — interviews, usability testing, workflow observation, product analytics review — and engage internal subject matter experts to ground product decisions in direct evidence rather than assumptions.
Partner directly with your engineering pair as a trio; bring clarity on what to build and why while they bring clarity on how to build it and what is feasible.
Own post-launch adoption and feedback — evangelize new capabilities, train internal teams, track feature adoption, gather user feedback, maintain documentation, and iterate based on real-world usage rather than handing off after launch.
Support enterprise sales conversations with substantive product and domain knowledge when needed — not just feature lists, but the depth that builds customer confidence.
Leverage AI tools and technologies across all aspects of your work — research, specification, design, analysis, prototyping, and documentation.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of professional experience in product management, technical product management, engineering, design, or another role where you owned both the what and the how of a product or technical surface.
Demonstrated ability to produce engineering-ready specifications — not just PRDs or user stories, but complete specifications including visual designs, user flows, data requirements, and acceptance criteria that engineering can build from directly.
Fluency with AI-assisted workflows; you already use AI tools daily in your professional work and can demonstrate how they accelerate your output and raise the quality of your work.
Strong written and verbal communication; you write clearly enough that engineers can build from your documents and customers or stakeholders can understand your roadmap.
Experience working directly with engineering teams in an agile or continuous-delivery environment as a genuine partner, not just a requirements source.
Strong analytical and quantitative skills — you think in terms of evidence, tradeoffs, and measurable outcomes; you use data to frame problems, evaluate options, and build the case for decisions.
Ability to synthesize information from multiple sources — customer feedback, user research, internal expertise, data, competitive context — into clear product direction and actionable plans.
Comfort with ambiguity and incomplete information; you make decisions with the data available rather than waiting for certainty.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience working in a software development environment.
Intellectually curious self-starter who proactively identifies problems and opportunities without waiting to be asked.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Unlimited Paid Time Off.
Ability to work in a fully remote environment (must be based in the U.S. and willing to work in Central Time Zone).
Summer Half-Day Fridays.
Freed Up Fridays during Spring, Fall, and Winter months to promote productivity and dedicated heads-down work time.
Medical, dental, and vision plan offerings along with 401(k).
Employer-paid Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, and Life Insurance.
Other Voluntary Benefits include additional Life Insurance, Spouse Life Insurance, and Accident Insurance.
The satisfaction that comes with being part of a solution that has real impact in the world.
A diverse workforce and inclusive environment that embraces unique contributions and experiences.
An empowered culture that encourages creativity and professional growth.

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Hard Skills & Tools

product managementtechnical product managementengineering-ready specificationsuser flowsvisual designsdata requirementsacceptance criteriaagilecontinuous deliveryanalytical skills

Soft Skills

written communicationverbal communicationrelationship buildingdecision makingsynthesis of informationcomfort with ambiguityintellectual curiosityself-starteruser researchfeedback gathering

Certifications

Bachelor's degree