Product Owner 3
The Company
Serving the People Who Serve the People
Granicus is driven by the excitement of building, implementing, and maintaining technology that is transforming the Govtech industry by bringing governments and its constituents together. We are on a mission to support our customers with meeting the needs of their communities and implementing our technology in ways that are equitable and inclusive. Granicus has consistently appeared on the GovTech 100 list over the past 5 years and has been recognized as the best companies to work on BuiltIn.
Over the last 25 years, we have served 5,500 federal, state, and local government agencies and more than 300 million citizen subscribers power an unmatched Subscriber Network that use our digital solutions to make the world a better place. With comprehensive cloud-based solutions for communications, government website design, meeting and agenda management software, records management, and digital services, Granicus empowers stronger relationships between government and residents across the U.S., U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. By simplifying interactions with residents, while disseminating critical information, Granicus brings governments closer to the people they serve—driving meaningful change for communities around the globe.
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Job Summary
Granicus is seeking a skilled Product Owner to join our engineering team and help build tools that transform how government works. As the Product Owner, you will gather business requirements from cross‑functional stakeholders, shape the product vision, and work closely with engineering to deliver high‑quality, customer‑focused outcomes.
You will define clear acceptance criteria, validate delivery outcomes, and manage a prioritized product backlog. In this role, you are expected to actively leverage AI capabilities to enhance product discovery, refine requirements, accelerate delivery, and improve decision making. This includes using AI to generate insights, analyze patterns, optimize workflows, and drive efficiency across the product lifecycle, while still applying strong product judgment and leadership independent of AI.
You are accountable for delivering roadmap concepts, maintaining product quality, and continuously identifying opportunities to incorporate AI‑driven innovation into both the product experience and internal processes. As a Senior Product Owner, you will balance AI‑enabled acceleration with the foundational skills of product strategy, stakeholder alignment, and disciplined execution.
What Your Impact Will Look Like
- Act as the agile product owner on engineering scrum team(s)
- Own and prioritize the backlog for a feature area in collaboration with the Product Manager
- Leverage AI tools to support backlog refinement, story creation, and prioritization decisions
- Prioritize tradeoffs, clarify requirements and work to drive user stories to acceptance throughout the agile development lifecycle
- Use AI to accelerate requirements definition, improve acceptance criteria quality, and identify gaps or risks early
- Participate in sprint planning, review, and retrospective meetings and provide feedback to the team
- Ensure acceptance criteria are clearly defined and verify that story implementation matches requirements Drive projects to completion with a focus on efficiency, quality, and continuous improvement enabled by AI insights
- Maintain constant and transparent communication with the team and stakeholders
- Enable internal teams to support the product through clear documentation, knowledge sharing, and AI-assisted content creation
You Will Love This Job If You Have
Experience using AI‑powered tools to accelerate product discovery, decision making, and execution. Strong exposure to AI‑assisted analysis, pattern detection, and insight generation across the product lifecycle. Ability to evaluate AI‑driven opportunities, understand model‑enab