Senior Data Product Owner

CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. Even with more than 8,500 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you.

CLA is dedicated to building a culture that invites different beliefs and perspectives to the table, so we can truly know and help our clients, communities, and each other.

Our Perks:

• Flexible PTO (designed to offer flexible time away for you!)
• Up to 12 weeks paid parental leave
• Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Mental health coverage
• Quarterly Wellness stipend
• Fertility benefits
• Complete list of benefits here

CLA is growing and seeking to hire an experienced Senior Data Product Owner to join our talented Information Technology team. The position offers growth, flexibility and a collaborative work environment.

In this position you should have the following; excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate at all levels. Strong problem solving and creative skills and the ability to exercise sound judgment. Most important, demonstrate a high level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency and results-orientation.

The Sr. Product Owner drives business value through full-stack, end-to-end product ownership for a complete product or significant product area from discovery through delivery to post-launch optimization. This role integrates outcome-focused strategy, continuous discovery, delivery execution, and operational sustainability with technical depth and accountability. The Sr. Product Owner partners with product leadership to develop product vision and strategy while owning execution within the product area. Leveraging business and technical fluency, the role balances short-term goals with long-term vision and bridges gaps between stakeholders, technical teams, and users to deliver measurable outcomes in an Agile environment.

How you’ll create opportunities in this Senior Data Product Owner role:

Continuous Discovery

• Partner with product leadership (Director) and business and technical stakeholders to develop outcome-driven product vision, strategy, and roadmap for product area, aligned to firm and service line priorities.
• Lead discovery using qualitative and quantitative research to validate the problem space, uncover friction points, and identify scalable opportunities.
• Translate discovery insights into testable hypotheses and actionable backlog items; validate technical feasibility and business outcome alignment.
• Communicate product priorities and progress with clarity to secure alignment across stakeholders.

Requirements/Backlog Management

• Develop product requirements documents (PRD), process flows, prototypes, Alpha, MVP defining the “why,” “who,” and “what” for the product area; define instrumentation and telemetry needs for usage tracking and performance measurement against OKRs/KPIs.
• Own and prioritize the backlog using value-based frameworks (MoSCoW, Value vs. Effort, RICE) to balance time-to-market, ROI, scalability, and technical debt.
• Decompose product vision into prioritized epics, features, and user stories covering functional and non-functional requirements (scalability, auditability, security, accessibility).
• Synthesize feedback, behavioral data, and strategic inputs into actionable backlog items with acceptance criteria, dependencies, and alignment to business, technical, and compliance objectives; ensure all work meets Definition of Ready and Done.
• Manage risks, dependencies, and assumptions using structured tools; coordinate cross-product dependencies with product leadership.

Technical & Solution Alignment

• Collaborate with architecture and engineering to ensure business problems are translated into appropriate technical solutions; demonstrate understanding of data schemas, integration models, APIs, SDKs, and workflows to participate effec