Product Owner

SafelyYou

Product Owner at SafelyYou managing engineering execution to empower safer senior living through AI solutions. Owning backlog and sprint management while ensuring high-quality feature delivery.

Posted 6/18/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and maintain a well-groomed, prioritized backlog for the Case & Notifications teams, ensuring stories are always ready for the next sprint.
Write clear, detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and edge-case definitions that give engineers everything they need to build with confidence.
Partner with engineering leads to sequence work in a way that manages dependencies, reduces risk, and maximizes delivery throughput.
Track sprint-level commitments, flag blockers early, and drive resolution so that sprint goals are consistently met.
Receive prioritized product direction from Product Management and translate it into granular, implementation-ready requirements.
Facilitate regular refinement sessions with engineers to surface technical questions and close ambiguity before work begins.
Maintain traceability between high-level product goals and individual tickets so the team always understands the "why" behind each piece of work.
Document decisions, assumptions, and out-of-scope items to prevent scope creep and reduce rework.
Facilitate and participate in sprint ceremonies - planning, daily stand-up, review, and retrospective - ensuring they are efficient and outcome-focused.
Monitor sprint health in real time and proactively manage scope adjustments when unexpected complexity or blockers arise.
Ensure shipped features meet the acceptance criteria defined at story creation.
Act as the day-to-day point of contact between the Case & Notifications teams and adjacent teams - including Customer Success, Operations, and other teams.
Attend and contribute to broader product planning forums, representing the execution perspective of the squad.
Define and track squad-level delivery metrics (cycle time, defect escape rate, sprint goal achievement) and use them to drive targeted improvements.

Requirements

What you’ll need

3-5+ years of professional experience as a Product Owner.
Bachelor’s degree in a technical, business, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Proven experience as a Product Owner or in a similar execution-focused delivery role within a software R&D team.
Solid understanding of agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and hands-on experience running sprint ceremonies.
Strong ability to write precise, unambiguous user stories and acceptance criteria that engineering teams can act on immediately.
Demonstrated skill in breaking down large product initiatives into well-sequenced, sprint-ready backlog items.
Excellent communication skills - able to translate between the language of product strategy and engineering implementation.
Experience working within or alongside a healthcare or safety-focused technology product is a plus.

Benefits

Comp & perks

A mission-driven company culture
Fully remote
Competitive salary & benefits, including fully paid employee premiums for Medical, Dental, and Vision
401k Program
Monthly Education, Well-being & WFH stipends
Non-accrual PTO
Growth Potential
Company Retreats
Medical & Family/Parental Leave

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Hard Skills & Tools

agile methodologiesScrumKanbanuser storiesacceptance criteriabacklog managementsprint planningsprint ceremoniesdelivery metricsscope management

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingprioritizationfacilitationdocumentationstakeholder managementrisk managementanalytical thinkingadaptability