Product Owner Job at TMS, Chicago, IL

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  • TMS
  • Chicago, IL

Job Description

Role: Product Owner

Duration: Long Term

Location: NYC or Chicago (3 days onsite)

Responsibilities:

  1. Product Lifecycle Ownership:
  • Own features end-to-end from discovery and definition through development launch and iteration.
  • Maintain and prioritize the product backlog in alignment with business objectives customer needs and technical constraints.
  • Define success metrics for each release and track outcomes post-launch to inform the next iteration.
  1. Requirements & Communication:
  • Articulate product requirements clearly and unambiguously to engineering design QA and business stakeholders.
  • Lead backlog refinement sprint planning and demos; act as the primary point of contact for the development team throughout the sprint.
  • Translate ambiguous business problems into concrete scope acceptance criteria and release plans.
  1. Design Collaboration:
  • Work directly in Figma to review flows annotate designs create low-fidelity wireframes and prototype concepts when needed.
  • Partner with designers to ensure user flows edge cases and interaction details are covered before development begins.
  1. Jira & Story Writing:
  • Write clear well-scoped user stories in Jira with strong acceptance criteria context and linked design and technical references.
  • Structure epics stories and sub-tasks so engineering teams can plan and deliver confidently without repeated back-and-forth.
  • Maintain a clean prioritized backlog with consistent labeling estimation and release tagging.
  1. AI-Accelerated Delivery:
  • Use AI tools (e.g. Claude ChatGPT Copilot Notion AI or similar) to accelerate requirement drafting story writing competitive research and stakeholder communication.
  • Identify opportunities to introduce AI-assisted workflows across the product team to improve throughput and quality.
  • Apply sound judgment when using AI output - validating editing and contextualizing results rather than copying them wholesale.

Required Qualifications:

  • 8 years of experience as a Product Owner Product Manager or equivalent role in an agile software environment.
  • Demonstrated understanding of the full product lifecycle: discovery definition delivery launch and iteration.
  • Proven ability to write clear engineer-ready user stories and acceptance criteria in Jira.
  • Working proficiency in Figma - able to navigate files leave structured feedback and create basic wireframes or prototypes.
  • Hands-on experience integrating AI tools into day-to-day product work to improve speed and quality.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable presenting to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience working in Scrum Kanban or hybrid agile environments.

Nice to Have:

  • Prior contract or consulting experience; able to ramp quickly in a new domain.
  • Exposure to SaaS B2B platforms or AI/ML-powered products.
  • Familiarity with analytics tools (e.g. Amplitude Mixpanel GA4) and basic SQL.
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or equivalent certification.

Job Tags

Full time, Contract work

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