Product Owner

Job Overview

PitchBook s Product Owner works collaboratively with key Product stakeholders and teams to deliver the department s product roadmap. This role takes an active part in aligning our engineering activities with Product Objectives across new product capabilties as well as data and scaling improvements to our core technologies , with a focus on public market datasets.

Team Overview

The Data Technology team within PitchBook s Product organization develops solutions to support and accelerate our data operations processes. This domain impacts core workflows of data capture , ingestion, and hygiene across our core financial and capital structure datasets. This role works on our Public Equity Data Collection Technology team , closely integrated with Engineering and Product Management to ensure we are delivering against our Product Roadmap . This team collects and manages Public Equity datapoints from a variety of sources and supports a large team of Data Operations researchers that use these tools to complete their work assignments.

Outline of Duties and Responsibilities

• Be a domain expert for your product area(s) and understand user workflows and needs

• Actively define backlog priority for your team(s) in collaboration with Product and Engineering

• Manage delivery of features according to the Product Roadmap

• Validate the priority and impact of incoming requirements from Product Management and Engineering

• Break down prioritized requirements into well-structured backlog items for the engineering team to complete

• Create user stories and acceptance criteria that indicate successful implementation of requirements

• Communicate requirements , acceptance criteria, and technical details to stakeholders across multiple PitchBook departments

• Define, create, and m anage metrics that represent team performance

• Manage, track, and mitigate risks or blockers of Feature delivery

• Understand and analyze data pipelines, user workflows, and automated systems

• Support PitchBook s values and vision

• Participate in various company initiatives and projects as requested

Experience, Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Information Management , Business Administration, Finance, or related field

• 3+ years of combined experience as a business analyst, product owner, or product manager

• A proven record of shipping high impact dat a pipeline or operations -related products , servic es, and workflow tools

• Bias for action and a willingness to roll up your sleeves and do what is necessary to meet team goals

• Experience translating user -centric requirements and specifications into user stories and tasks

• Superior attention to detail including the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including strong audience awareness

• Demonstrated experience working with JIRA for issue management

• Knowledge of content management systems and user interface development

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct e xperience working with data collection teams , processes, and content management platforms

• Background in fintech supporting Public Equity data collection operations and engineering implementation

• Successful experience co llaborating with remote teams and stakeholders

• Certifications related to Agile Product Ownership / Product Manag ement

• CSPO, PSPO , POPM

Working Conditions

The job conditions for this position are in a standard office setting. Employees in this position use PC and phone on an on-going basis throughout the day. This role collaborates with Seattle office stakeholders and typical overlap is between 6:30 - 8:30AM Pacific . Limited corporate travel may be required to remote offices or other business meetings and events.