Job ID: NS487858522
Location: Omaha, NE
Category: Information Technology
Employment Type: Permanent
Date Added: 10/05/2026
Product Owner – Enterprise Technology | $115,000 – $125,000 Per Year | Direct Hire
What Matters Most
- Competitive pay of $115,000 – $125,000+ per year based on experience
- Flexible Hybrid Schedule – 50% onsite after initial training period
- Location: Omaha, NE
- Direct hire opportunity with long-term career growth and stability
- Highly visible Product Owner role supporting enterprise technology initiatives
- Opportunity to help modernize and expand a major enterprise platform
- Strong emphasis on collaboration, culture fit, and professional growth
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Product Owner to help guide enterprise technology initiatives and serve as a key connection point between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams. This role will be responsible for understanding business needs, establishing priorities, managing the product backlog, and helping teams deliver solutions that create measurable business value. The ideal candidate will bring strong Product Owner fundamentals, including backlog management, requirements definition, stakeholder engagement, Agile delivery, sprint and release planning, and cross-functional collaboration. Experience with ServiceNow, IT service management, workflow platforms, or enterprise technology implementations is highly valued, but direct ServiceNow experience is not required. This organization is expanding the use of its enterprise technology platform beyond traditional support functions and is looking for someone who can understand the business need behind the work, establish priorities, and partner effectively with technical teams to drive successful delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with business leaders, technical teams, and stakeholders to define product goals, priorities, and roadmaps
- Own and prioritize product backlogs, user stories, enhancement requests, and competing business needs
- Translate business requirements into clear functional requirements, user stories, and Agile work items
- Lead or support backlog refinement, sprint planning, release planning, reviews, and retrospectives
- Collaborate with developers, QA, infrastructure, operations, and other technology teams throughout the delivery lifecycle
- Coordinate product enhancements, workflow improvements, and enterprise platform initiatives
- Manage stakeholder expectations and communicate priorities, progress, risks, and dependencies
- Help establish product direction while balancing business value, technical considerations, and team capacity
- Support testing, user acceptance activities, release coordination, and solution validation
- Facilitate communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Identify opportunities for process improvement, workflow automation, and increased platform capabilities
- Contribute to continuous improvement of Agile delivery and product management practices
Qualifications and Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business, Computer Science, or related field preferred
- 5+ years of experience in Product Ownership, Business Analysis, Agile delivery, or a closely related technology role
- Demonstrated experience owning or managing product backlogs, prioritization, user stories, and requirements
- Experience working closely with business stakeholders and technical delivery teams
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban
- Experience with sprint planning, backlog refinement, release planning, and Agile ceremonies
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, facilitation, and organizational skills
- Ability to understand business needs and translate them into actionable work for technical teams
- Experience coordinating initiatives across multiple departments or stakeholder groups
- Familiarity with software development lifecycle and enterprise application delivery
- Experience using Jira, Azure DevOps, Rally, or similar Agile/product management tools
- Experience supporting testing, release coordination, and solution delivery
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with ServiceNow or another enterprise workflow/service management platform
- Familiarity with ITSM, CMDB, Discovery, Service Mapping, or IT asset management
- ITIL certification or IT service management experience
- Experience with workflow automation or enterprise process improvement
- Experience supporting large-scale enterprise technology implementations
- Experience within insurance, financial services, or another regulated industry is a plus
Work Authorization & Employment Status Requirement
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. We are not able to sponsor or assume responsibility for employment visas, including but not limited to H-1B, now or in the future. We also cannot accept C2C (Corp-to-Corp) or third-party candidates.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. We are not able to sponsor or assume responsibility for employment visas, including but not limited to H-1B, now or in the future. We also cannot accept C2C (Corp-to-Corp) or third-party candidates.
Benefits and Perks:
- Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision & More
- Holidays and Vacation Paid Time Off
- Competitive 401(k) + Company Match
- Training & Development
- Advancement Opportunities
Your New Organization:
This well-established organization offers a strong foundation of financial stability while maintaining a collaborative, close-knit culture. With a long track record of success, the company promotes innovation, teamwork, and professional growth within a supportive and engaging environment.
Your Career Partner:
The Reserves Network, a veteran-founded and family-owned company, specializes in connecting exceptional talent with rewarding opportunities. With extensive industry experience, we are dedicated to helping you achieve your professional goals and shine in your field. The Reserves Network values diversity and encourages applicants from all backgrounds to apply. As an equal-opportunity employer, we foster an environment of respect, integrity, and trust in every aspect of employment.
In the spirit of pay transparency, we want to share the base salary range for this position is $115,000 – $125,000 per year, not including benefits, potential bonuses or additional compensation. If you are hired, your base salary will be determined based on factors such as individual skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location. In addition, we also believe in the importance of pay equity and consider the internal equity of our current team members as a part of any final offer. Please keep in mind that the range mentioned above is the full base salary range for the role. Hiring at the maximum of the range would not be typical in order to allow for future & continued salary growth
