Tech Product Owner

A great career opportunity

Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of Netherlands-based Ahold Delhaize, is the parent company for Ahold Delhaize's U.S. companies, including its local brands, Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop, and the U.S. services companies, Retail Business Services, Peapod Digital Labs and ADUSA Supply Chain. When considered together, the local brands of Ahold Delhaize USA comprise the largest grocery retail group on the East Coast and the fourth largest grocery retail group in the nation, operating more than 2,000 stores and distribution centers across more than 20 states and serving millions of customers each week through a uniquely local omnichannel experience. The Ahold Delhaize USA company team includes just over 100 associates across all East Coast office locations.

Primary Purpose

This role serves as the day-to-day product delivery leader for one or more cross-functional squads, depending on product complexity, team maturity, and business needs. Partner closely with Product Managers, Engineering, Experience Design, Analytics, Operations, and business stakeholders to translate strategy, customer and user needs, and desired outcomes into a clear, prioritized, and executable body of work. Maintain a healthy product backlog, champion customer and business value in delivery decisions, and ensure work is connected to measurable outcomes. As organizational priorities evolve, this role may support different products, capabilities, technologies, or business domains while applying consistent product ownership practices and customer-centric thinking.

Our flexible/ hybrid work schedule includes 3 in-person days at one of our core locations and 2 remote days.  Our core office locations include Chicago, IL.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Duties and Responsibilities 

• Partner closely with Product Managers to understand product strategy, roadmap priorities, business objectives, customer needs, and success measures, translating direction into executable delivery plans.
• Own and continuously maintain the squad backlog, ensuring work is transparent, appropriately prioritized, refined, understood, and ready for development.
• Develop clear problem statements, user stories, acceptance criteria, feature requirements, and supporting documentation in partnership with Engineering and Experience Design. 
• Evaluate and sequence work based on customer value, business impact, expected outcomes, technical feasibility, dependencies, risks, and team capacity.
• Help define minimum viable product (MVP) scope and support incremental delivery approaches that maximize learning and value realization.
• Lead product preparation activities for backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, release readiness, and other Agile ceremonies requiring product context or decisions.
• Make timely day-to-day product decisions within an established strategic direction and escalate significant tradeoff decisions when appropriate. 
  Coordinate dependencies across teams and proactively communicate priorities, progress, risks, blockers, and scope changes to stakeholders. 

Qualifications   

•    Bachelor's degree or a related field, or equivalent professional experience. 
•    3+ years of experience in Product Ownership, Product Management, Business Analysis, Technology Delivery, Digital Products, or related disciplines. 
•    Experience working within Agile product delivery environments and supporting cross-functional teams. 
•    Experience writing user stories, defining acceptance criteria, documenting requirements, and managing product backlogs. 
•    Familiarity with backlog prioritization, sprint planning, iterative delivery, and agile product development practices. 
•    Ability to analyze data and use evidence to support product decisions, prioritization, and recommendations. 
•    Strong communication, collaboration, prioritization, and stakeholder management skills. 
•    Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to navigate ambiguity in a fast-paced environment. 
•    Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies, business processes, and product domains quickly. 
•    Passion for creating valuable technology products and delivering measurable business outcomes. 

Preferred Qualifications 

•    Experience supporting technology products within retail, grocery, eCommerce, operations, customer experience, marketing, personalization, loyalty, supply chain, merchandising, fulfillment, or related business domains. 
•    Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, product analytics platforms, experimentation tools, collaboration technologies, or similar product management tools. 
•    Experience working with OKRs, KPIs, outcome measurement, adoption metrics, or value realization frameworks. 
•    Experience collaborating with Engineering, Experience Design, Analytics, Operations, and business stakeholders in a matrixed organization. 
•    Experience leveraging Generative AI or AI-enabled tools to support product management activities such as research, analysis, documentation, backlog preparation, workflow optimization, requirements development, or stakeholder communication. 
•    Degree in Business, Technology, Engineering, Analytics, Design preferred.
•    Familiarity with accessibility, usability, and customer-centered design principles. 
•    Demonstrated curiosity, learning agility, and a continuous improvement mindset. 

Salary Range: $93,840- $140,760 
Actual compensation offered to a candidate may vary based on their unique qualifications and experience, internal equity, and market conditions. Final compensation decisions will be made in accordance with company policies and applicable laws. 
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At Ahold Delhaize USA, we embrace and celebrate diversity. Our employees and prospective employees are treated with fairness, respect and dignity. We provide an equal opportunity workplace committed to hiring, training, compensating, and promoting persons based on their talents and abilities and without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, family status, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.