IT Product Owner - Global SAP Platform FICO

Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed.

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST.  Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others. 

Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

Product Owners are responsible for defining requirements, assisting with the overall product roadmap/vision, and driving value at the scrum team level. Product Owners work closely with teams and are the “voice of the customer”, ensuring the needs of the end-user are incorporated into the product from design to deployment. Product owners are responsible for the authoring of functional user stories which are used to support the day to day development of new features and capabilities.

As an IT Product Owner at Costco, this role will lead the end-to-end delivery of features and projects within the Global SAP FICO ecosystem. Serving as a technical product leader, the Product Owner will bridge the gap between business strategy and execution, driving value through both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

This Product Owner will manage intake across all Global SAP Finance platforms, collaborating with diverse business areas to define requirements and project scope. The responsibilities for this Product Owner include authoring comprehensive Business Requirement Documents (BRDs) for waterfall projects and crafting detailed functional user stories for agile feature delivery. Partnering closely with the delivery team, this person will act as the 'voice of the customer,' ensuring end-user needs are met from design to deployment. Deep SAP FICO domain expertise and a proven track record of managing complex enterprise solutions are essential to ensure technical feasibility and long-term product health. In this role, strong leadership qualities and excellent written and oral communication skills are critical to successfully collaborate with stakeholders and drive end-to-end delivery.

If you want to be a part of one of the worldwide BEST companies “to work for”, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

ROLE

• Manages the end-to-end intake process for Global SAP platform requests, including properly classifying requests (Project, Epic, or User Story) and coordinating dependency tasks with external teams. 

• Owns the full delivery lifecycle of features and projects, partnering with the delivery team to remove impediments and ensure timely completion. 

• Authors formal Business Requirement Documents (BRDs) for waterfall projects and detailed user stories with acceptance criteria for agile feature delivery. 

• Supports business strategy by forming a prioritized backlog of features and user stories for use by the delivery team. 

• Collaborates directly with external IT teams, including SAP Basis and Platform teams, to confirm scope, technical dependencies, and timelines for intake requests. 

• Leads Design Thinking