Product Owner

🌎Akvelon is an American company with offices in Seattle, Mexico, Ukraine, Poland, and Serbia. Our company is an official vendor of Microsoft and Google. Our clients also include Amazon, Evernote, Intel, HP, Reddit, Pinterest, AT&T, T-Mobile, Starbucks, and LinkedIn. To work with Akvelon means to be connected with the best and brightest engineering teams from around the globe and working with an actual technology stack building Enterprise, CRM, LOB, Cloud, AI and Machine Learning, Cross-Platform, Mobile, and other types of applications customized to client’s needs and processes.

Akvelon is looking for a Product Owner to join an existing team on the project – a flexible Terminal Operating System (TOS) platform for marine terminal operators that helps optimize and scale port operations. The system is multi-language, highly configurable per site, and supports workflows handling ~12% of all global freight moves.

Responsibilities:

• Define and communicate product vision and roadmap
• Gather, analyze, and document business and product requirements
• Manage and prioritize product backlog in Jira
• Write clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and product documentation
• Collaborate with stakeholders, designers, and development teams
• Participate in sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
• Ensure timely delivery of features according to priorities
• Validate delivered functionality against requirements
• Analyze product performance and suggest improvements

Requirements:

• + 4 years of experience as a Product Owner / Business Analyst / similar role
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Experience working with Jira and Confluence
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements
• Experience with Office 365 / Copilot tools
• Basic knowledge of databases and ability to perform simple operations in Oracle (SELECT queries, JOINs, data lookup)
• Analytical thinking and attention to detail
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills at all organizational levels.
• Advanced English (written & spoken).

Nice to have:

• Experience working with distributed teams
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle
• Experience with product metrics and data-driven decision making

Required daily overlap with the team until 10 AM PST

Benefits:

• Paid vacation and sick leave
• Official state holidays – 9-11 public holidays per year
• Professional growth through challenging projects and the opportunity to master new technologies
• Flexible working schedule: 8 hours per day, 40 hours per week
• Personal Career Development Plan (CDP)
• Employee support programs (discounts, healthcare, legal assistance)
• Paid external training, conferences, and professional certifications aligned with business goals
• Internal workshops, seminars, and English classes
• Corporate library with paper and e-books

If this role sounds like a match, apply now and send us your CV.