Ascensus is the leading independent technology and service platform powering savings plans across America, providing products and expertise that help nearly 16 million people save for a better today and tomorrow.

Position Summary

As a Senior Product Owner, Enterprise AI Platform, you will define, prioritize, and drive execution of platform capabilities that turn modern AI technology into practical, reliable, and measurable business value.

This role provides product ownership and delivery leadership across multiple scrum teams. You will partner closely with:

Software Engineers
SDETs
DevOps Engineers
Support Engineers
Architects
Product leaders
AI specialists
Business stakeholders
Operational leaders

This is a senior product ownership role for someone who can balance business outcomes, user needs, technical complexity, delivery execution, responsible AI adoption, and team effectiveness.

You will be responsible for:

Defining and maintaining the roadmap for Enterprise AI Platform capabilities
Prioritizing team backlogs based on business value, user impact, risk, dependencies, and platform strategy
Translating business needs into clear epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes
Representing users, internal customers, and stakeholders throughout planning, delivery, validation, and release
Partnering with engineering, architecture, AI, support, operations, and business teams to deliver production-grade AI capabilities
Staying informed on emerging AI tools, models, workflows, and platform patterns
Partnering with technical teams to shape demos, POCs, pilots, and early concepts that validate value before larger investment
Helping teams operate effectively by applying Agile practices pragmatically, not performatively

This role requires an AI product builder mindset: the ability to combine product ownership, user experience thinking, technical curiosity, and AI-assisted prototyping to help teams validate ideas quickly and focus on the highest-value opportunities.

The Senior Product Owner should be comfortable using demos, workflow sketches, lightweight prototypes, user feedback, and production data to shape product direction before larger engineering investment is made. AI prototyping is increasingly becoming part of modern product discovery because product leaders can use AI tools to turn PRDs, sketches, and designs into working prototypes faster than traditional handoff cycles.

What We’re Looking For

We are looking for a senior product owner who can balance product strategy, delivery execution, stakeholder alignment, technical curiosity, team effectiveness, and business value realization.

The ideal candidate is someone who:

Has strong product ownership experience in technology-driven environments
Can oversee product direction and backlog health across multiple scrum teams
Can translate business goals into clear, actionable team backlogs
Writes strong user stories, acceptance criteria, and product requirements
Thinks deeply about user workflows, usability, adoption, and the associate experience
Uses wireframes, workflow sketches, journey maps, lightweight prototypes, or AI-assisted demos to clarify product direction and gather feedback
Is naturally curious about AI, automation, platform capabilities, and emerging technology
Can partner with technical leaders to turn early ideas into demos, POCs, pilots, or backlog-ready capabilities
Prioritizes competing needs across users, stakeholders, dependencies, technical constraints, and delivery capacity
Applies Agile Scrum practices selectively when they improve clarity, alignment, delivery, or continuous improvement
Helps identify blockers, dependency issues, team friction, and process gaps
Can facilitate planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and cross-team coordination when useful
Partners well with engineers, SDETs, DevOps engineers, support teams, architects, AI specialists, business stakeholders, and senior leaders

Required Qualifications

7+ years of professional experience in product ownership, product management, business analysis, technology delivery, software engineering, quality engineering, or a related field.
4+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, or similar role supporting software delivery teams.
Experience providing product ownership or delivery leadership across multiple scrum teams, products, workstreams, or complex initiatives.
Experience owning or supporting product roadmaps, team backlogs, feature prioritization,

Senior AI Product Owner at Ascensus