Product Owner

Cordance is dedicated to accelerating the growth of vertically focused business-to-business (B2B) software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies through acquisition and long-term tactical and financial guidance. We’re experienced operators and subject-matter experts with a passion for software and building businesses. We partner with founders to help them scale their businesses and realize their companies’ full potential.

We look for businesses with strong leadership and high potential for profitable growth, and work together to increase year-over-year revenue, company efficiency, and impact. Cordance envisions that all companies we work with achieve their full potential. We embrace what makes each company great and build on those foundations. We believe in elevating a company as it scales, delivering dignity to the organization and its employees, and sharing a passion for building a legacy.

Overview of the Position

The Product Owner will translate approved product priorities into clear, delivery-ready work for Cordance Commerce engineering teams. This person will own backlog quality, refinement, user stories, acceptance criteria, requirement clarification, dependencies, and release readiness to ensure Engineering understands what they are building, why it matters, and what successful delivery looks like.

The Product Owner will work closely with the Product Manager, Engineering, Design, Quality Assurance, Architecture, Customer Success, Support, Sales, and other business partners. The Product Manager owns product vision, strategy, roadmap priorities, and outcome decisions , while the Product Owner turns those priorities into executable work and supports the team through delivery .

Core Responsibilities

Own and maintain a clear, prioritized, and delivery-ready product backlog for assigned Commerce products or value streams.

Translate approved roadmap priorities and business outcomes into epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and supporting documentation.

Partner with the Product Manager to ensure backlog priorities reflect customer value, revenue, growth, retention, risk, strategic opportunities, and technical dependencies.

Lead regular backlog refinement and ensure upcoming work meets the team's Definition of Ready before sprint planning.

Participate actively in sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, and other Agile ceremonies.

Clarify requirements throughout delivery and document decisions, assumptions, scope changes, and acceptance expectations.

Accept or reject completed work against agreed acceptance criteria and coordinate business validation when necessary.

Manage functional dependencies and sequencing across Product, Engineering, Design, QA, Architecture, Operations, and customer-facing teams.

Support release readiness by confirming scope, acceptance, documentation, stakeholder communication, training needs, dependencies, and outstanding risks.

Partner with Customer Success, Support, Sales, Implementation, and customers to clarify needs and incorporate validated feedback into the backlog.

Provide clear delivery updates covering backlog health, readiness, risks, dependencies, decisions, release scope, and planned-versus-delivered work.

Maintain accurate and current backlog and delivery information within Jira and related collaboration tools.

Help continuously improve product-delivery practices without introducing unnecessary process.

Competencies

Backlog Leadership: Maintains a healthy, prioritized backlog with sufficient detail and delivery-ready work for upcoming sprints.

Requirement Clarity: Translates business and customer needs into understandable stories and testable acceptance criteria.

Customer & Business Focus: Connects delivery work to customer value, revenue, growth, retention, operational improvements, and strategic outcomes.

Delivery Partnership: Works closely with Product, Engineering, Design, and QA to resolve ambiguity and keep work moving.