Product Owner

At Epiq , your work contributes to complex, global legal outcomes. You’ll join a values‑driven community where integrity guides decisions, relentless service sets the bar, and we thrive on big challenges together. We invest in your growth with enterprise‑wide learning and mobility. We celebrate who you are, and we respect life beyond work with flexibility that’s recognized externally. Enabled by modern platforms and AI, you’ll do the most meaningful work of your career and see your impact at scale. Job Description: Job Summary The Product Owner (PO) is a member of the Agile Team responsible for defining user stories and prioritizing the Team Backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the Features or components for the team. The Product Owner will work directly with a product manager to analyze Epiq Discovery stories, including backlog grooming, understanding customer use cases, and working with developers to understand implementation complexity. Essential Job Responsibilities Be the liaison between the business unit teams and development/technology teams Responsible for developing functional requirements and related business rules based on customer’s (internal and external) needs Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs Work closely with key business partners and subject matter experts in the definition, testing, training, implementation, and support of functional requirements Identify requirements via industry standard analysis techniques such as data flow modeling, workflow analysis, and functional decomposition analysis. Solicit requirements through interviews, workshops, and/or existing systems documentation or procedures. Develops and analyzes functional and non-functional requirements for technology solutions with stakeholders according to Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and internal standards to ensure business needs are well understood, clearly defined, and properly aligned with overall project scope. Participate in daily stand-up meetings to facilitate the understanding, clarification, and implementation of requirements in an Agile development environment Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs Drive and challenge business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans Serves as the conduit between the customer community (internal and external customers) and the software development team through which requirements flow Develop functional requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language and user stories Qualifications & Requirements Education Required: Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, or a related field. Preferred: Master's degree in Business Administration or a related field. Experience Required: Minimum of 3 years of experience in product development or a related field. Preferred: Experience in managing product development teams and projects. Skills Agile Methodology Agile Project Management Analytical Thinking Backlog Management Business Analysis Business Requirements Communication Functional Requirements Product Management Product Strategies Professional Collaboration Reporting and Analysis Software Development Teamwork Certifications Required: None. Preferred: Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or equivalent certification. Physical Requirements Ability to work in an office environment and perform tasks that may require sitting, standing, and using office equipment. It is Epiq’s policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual’s race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. Epiq’s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. In addition Epiq will take affirmative action for minorities, women, covered veterans and individuals with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. Epiq is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. Pursuant to relevant law, where applicable, Epiq will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.