Sr. Product Owner, Delivery (US Remote)
First AdvantageAbout the role
At First Advantage (Nasdaq: FA), people are at the heart of everything we do. From our customers and partners to our greatest advantage — our team members. Operating with empathy and compassion, First Advantage fosters a global inclusive workforce devoted to the diverse voices that make up our talent and products. Our team members empower each other to be their authentic selves and treat all with respect, integrity, and fairness.
Say hello to a rewarding career and come join a leading provider of mission-critical background screening solutions to some of the most recognized Fortune 100 and Global 500 brands.
The Sr. Product Owner, Delivery role is a remote role combining the execution excellence of a Release Train Engineer (RTE) with the operational rigor of Product Operations, with a strong emphasis on predictable delivery, cross-team alignment, and value realization. This role ensures that product strategy translates into dependable outcomes by orchestrating planning, execution, release, and operational cadence across multiple teams.
What You'll Do:
Agile Delivery & Release Execution
- Assist in formal pre-planning and planning with cross functional teams
- Drive end-to-end delivery cadence ensuring predictable execution across teams.
- Identify, escalate, and resolve delivery risks, dependencies, and impediments.
- Coordinate release readiness, go/no-go decisions, and production stability with Product Enablement and Marketing teams
- Establish and maintain release standards and quality gates using a t-minus schedule for larger GTM releases
- Translate product strategy into execution plans and delivery roadmaps using Product Plan
- Align Product, Engineering, QA, and Business stakeholders.
- Track and report on delivery health using repeatable outcome-based metrics.
- Govern Azure DevOps Boards use across product and engineering teams.
- Support standards for Epic and Feature creation, naming, required fields, and status states.
- Ensure alignment/traceability of Epics and Features to strategy, roadmaps, and releases.
- Monitor epic and feature flow to identify bottlenecks, aging work, and delivery risks.
- Serve as system owner for the Product Plan / Product Portfolio Management tool.
- Define/Educate/Govern others on the standards and best practices of the Product Plan tool
- Ensure alignment between Product Plan tool and Azure DevOps.
- Validate accuracy and auditability of delivery data.
- Build dashboards for epic and feature progress, delivery health, and risks.
- Provide a single source of truth for leadership reporting.
What You May Need to be Successful:
- 7+ years in agile delivery, product operations, or program management.
- 3+ years leading multiple agile teams in a scaled environment.
- Experience with Azure DevOps.
- Excellent facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Why First Advantage is Your Next Big Career Move
First Advantage is going through a technology transformation! We are looking for experts who are excited to work with advanced technologies and provide best-in-class user experience, drive the development and deployment of scalable solutions, and smoothly guide our agile teams and clients through meaningful changes as we continue to expand our impact.
Additional benefits offered to our eligible people include:
- Ability to work remotely with occasional business travel
- Medical, Vision, Dental, and supplementary benefit plans
- 401k with an employer match, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Competitive and flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) and 8 paid company holidays
- Access to new tech and growth opportunities, and leaders who want to see you succeed!
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