The Senior Technical Product Owner is responsible for leading product delivery, translating business goals into actionable plans, and enhancing internal systems at Bellwood. Duties include managing backlogs, facilitating scrum ceremonies, and improving operational efficiency through effective use of tools like Jira and others.
About the job
We are seeking a Senior Technical Product Owner to lead delivery and discovery for business-critical web and mobile products while strengthening the internal systems that power how Bellwood works.
This is a unique opportunity to work alongside an experienced team that excels at building high-quality products for clients at scale. You will serve as the primary product and delivery lead across client engagements, translating business goals into clear, executable plans for engineering and design teams. In addition to client work, you will help elevate Bellwood’s internal processes, tools, and platforms to improve how we plan, deliver, and collaborate.
This position reports to the COO and works closely with clients, engineers, designers, and cross-functional stakeholders across Bellwood.
QualificationsKey Responsibilities include:- Own end-to-end product delivery for client engagements, from discovery through release
- Lead discovery workshops to clarify goals, requirements, risks, and success metrics
- Translate business needs into roadmaps, epics, user stories, and actionable backlogs
- Define priorities and make tradeoff decisions based on value, risk, and timeline
- Serve as the primary client-facing product lead, providing updates, demos, and recommendations
- Establish and maintain a clear communication cadence with clients and internal teams
- Create and manage all user stories in Jira, ensuring acceptance criteria are clear and development-ready
- Proactively manage and refine the backlog to align with evolving priorities
- Facilitate scrum ceremonies including refinement, planning, stand-ups, kickoffs, and retrospectives
- Monitor team velocity and capacity to plan realistic, predictable sprints
- Partner closely with engineering, design, and QA to ensure high-quality delivery
- Validate features in staging environments and coordinate deployments with stakeholders
- Identify risks and blockers early and drive resolution
- Support pre-sales and discovery conversations with prospective clients as needed
- Own, maintain, and continuously enhance Bellwood’s core delivery and operations platforms (Jira, Tempo, Jazz, Lattice, Rippling, and related tools), driving process efficiency, system reliability, and operational excellence between client engagements.
- Standardize workflows, templates, and processes to improve clarity and efficiency across teams
- Document and scale best practices for discovery, estimation, and delivery
- Improve reporting, forecasting, and visibility into team capacity and performance
- Reduce manual work through smarter systems and automation
- Treat Bellwood itself like a product, identifying friction and implementing improvements that strengthen how we work
- Has 6+ years of experience in product ownership, technical product management, or delivery leadership
- Has led complex software projects from discovery through launch
- Is comfortable making decisions and owning outcomes, not just gathering requirements
- Thrives in ambiguous environments and brings structure and clarity to chaos
- Communicates confidently with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Understands software architecture and technical tradeoffs well enough to partner deeply with engineers
- Has strong experience with Jira and modern delivery tooling
- Enjoys improving systems and processes, not just running them
- Is equally comfortable leading a client workshop and refining a backlog
- Embodies Bellwood’s values of ownership, empathy, and follow-through
- Remote
- Open PTO
- Subsidized Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Short/Long Term Disability
- 401k Plan
- Profit Sharing
- Company Retreats
Bellwood Labs is a dynamic Product Development Consultancy. We're a team of developers, designers, marketers and entrepreneurs that companies turn to when they want to take a software product from conception to creation.
Our MissionBellwood Labs seeks to be and be known as the most trusted partner to develop and advance software products.
Our Core Values- We Embrace Your Goals
- We Own our Commitments
- We Succeed through Empathy
- We Take the Next Step
Join our tight-knit team of skilled builders to leverage your talents and grow your skills. We are looking forward to meeting with you!
Top Skills
JIRA
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