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Product & Design - Product Owner – Development Program

Location Option(s): Cincinnati, OH & Chicago, IL
Cohort Start Date(s): June 16, 2025

This program is in-office, with no remote options.

SUMMARY:

The Product Owner is the business champion and team translator, responsible for maximizing the product's value alongside the development team. You own the assessment of your product’s business value, collaborating with your team to continuously improve. You translate business requirements into product requirements to ensure that the product delivers on user needs. You will regularly collaborate with teammates across software engineering, agile delivery, experience design, leadership, and more – ensuring that you’re balancing needs across stakeholders while delivering the best product possible for our users.

At 84.51°, we design & build products that make our users’ lives easier. We accomplish this through research, design, analysis, and testing in an iterative delivery environment – identifying the right problems to focus on and the ideal end state. The 84.51° Product Owner team uses a multidisciplinary approach (incorporating product, agile, and design principles) that allows you to leverage your strengths and improve your weaknesses in a highly constructive, highly collaborative environment.

If this sounds like you, join the 84.51° Product team and be part of the next wave of products that bring together industry-leading data science and customer insights.

DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM:

Product Owners in the Development Program start in June with positions available in both our Cincinnati, OH Headquarters and our Chicago, IL office, located in the Old Post Office.

For the first 12 weeks, you will participate in an onboarding program where you will receive technical and contextual training around who we are, what we do, and how we do it – with extensive training, immersive case studies, and shadowing & mentorship opportunities across the business.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Contribute to the prioritization and ordering of the product backlog items based on the product roadmap
Participate in the management of the team’s product backlog and ensuring it’s transparent, visible and clearly communicated
Assist in translating business desires/requirements into effective features and stories that are ready for development
Outlines clear acceptance criteria with the support of a more senior PO, to clearly communicate the definition of “done”
Stakeholder management – effective in building and managing stakeholder relationships to influence and drive change
Entry level knowledge in the development and use of product data to influence product decisions/roadmap – both quantitative and qualitative
Learn the business domain, stakeholders, business processes and constraints in which your product(s) play
Learn customers/users' problems, how they think and operate and the platforms/technology they use
Understand and assist in communicating organization objectives, strategies and solution needs to the team to facilitate results (where collaborative/as colleague)
Manage and communicate dependencies and risks

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE WE VALUE:

Bachelor’s degree or higher from a four-year accredited university
Must be graduating by the time the program starts - or looking for an early career change to our industry (0-3 years of experience)
Awareness of how to effectively manage cross-functional software development teams in an agile environment
Balance business priorities against design/user needs while delivering against product roadmaps
Learn effective ways to manage end-to-end software product development
Stakeholder management skills – effective in building and managing stakeholder relationships to influence and drive change
Problem solving, critical thinking and analytical skills
Planning, organizational and time management skills
Comfort with ambiguity – remains confident, positive and resourceful in the face of ambiguity and unexpected results; recovers quickly from setbacks
Exhibits qualities of and have proven to be a great teammate
Verbal and written communication skills, ability to translate between business and technical
Technical acumen – grasps the technical details to lead a team

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