Product Owner

About the position

As a Product Owner at Kardex AutoStore North America, you will be responsible for defining, prioritizing, and executing product features, ensuring alignment with business objectives, and maximizing value delivery. You will work closely with stakeholders, development teams, and product managers to translate customer needs into clear, actionable requirements. Your role will be pivotal in driving product development, backlog management, and ensuring seamless collaboration between cross-functional teams. Kardex provides highly reliable and precise mechanical solutions but also an intelligent and configurable warehouse execution system (WES). Kardex’s software solution for AutoStore is a proven modular software platform, leveraging over 30 years of research and development to seamlessly interface with any host system. Our software development team, centrally located in Cincinnati, OH, focuses exclusively on AutoStore integration, applicable subsystems and processes which provides the most reliable and comprehensive AutoStore software solution on the market.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the product roadmap, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
• Collaborate with Product Manager to gather requirements, understand feature specifications, and document product functionality.
• Own the creation and refinement of user stories to ensure development teams have clear, actionable tasks and acceptance criteria.
• Lead the transition of feature designs to development teams, ensuring alignment with business requirements.
• Prioritize and maintain the product backlog to optimize development efforts.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, providing guidance and clarifications on backlog items.
• Define and validate acceptance criteria to ensure product quality and usability.
• Collaborate with developers to ensure requirements are well understood and implemented correctly.
• Assist in reviewing test cases to validate feature functionality.
• Ensure that implemented features align with product roadmap and result in high-quality releases.
• Oversee release preparation to identify and address potential risks and gaps.
• Maintain and update product documentation, including release notes and specifications.
• Manage release activities, ensuring smooth deployment and stakeholder communication.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Proven experience (4+ years) as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or similar role.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and Scrum framework.
• Experience with backlog management tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps).
• Knowledge of software development life cycles (SDLC) and product development principles.
• Strong ability to translate business needs into technical requirements.

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity with warehouse execution systems (WES) or automation software.
• Experience supporting and developing Warehouse management systems.