Senior 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 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 outcome-focused product strategy and delivery, harnessing business and technical fluency, strategic vision, customer-centricity, and stakeholder engagement to achieve product success in an Agile environment. The role covers full-stack product ownership, integrating discovery, delivery, and operational execution with technical depth and end-to-end accountability. It embodies strategic product leadership—driving product vision through foresight, data-informed decision-making, and deep collaboration with architecture, engineering, UX, product research, QA, and business stakeholders. The role balances short-term goals with long-term vision and make strategic decisions that will benefit the product and CLA. As a versatile functional leader, the Sr. Product Owner bridges gaps between stakeholders, technical teams, and users to deliver measurable outcomes. The role oversees the full product lifecycle—from ideation through post-launch iteration—including operational readiness, monitoring, and long-term sustainability. The Sr. Product Owner mentors and partners with other Product Owners and ensures alignment with CLA’s solutions portfolio strategy.

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

Continuous Discovery

• Define outcome-driven product vision, strategy, and roadmap aligned to firm and service line priorities.

• Collaborate with business owners, sponsors, and product and technology leaders to shape and deliver OKRs and KPIs with measurable impact throughout the product lifecycle.

• Lead discovery using both qualitative and quantitative research to validate user problems, uncover friction points, and identify scalable opportunities.

• Translate insights into actionable hypotheses and backlog items; ensure technical feasibility and alignment with business outcomes.

• Maintain a dual-track backlog (discovery and delivery); continuously synthesize feedback into iterative improvements.

• Communicate product vision, direction, and priorities with executive-level clarity to secure alignment and buy-in.

Requirements/Backlog Management

• Develop product functional and non-functional requirements (PRD), process flows, prototypes, concept sketches, and technical enabler documentation in partnership with cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment with strategic OKRs and KPIs.

• Responsible for defining the “why,” “who,” and the “what.”

• Own and prioritize the backlog using value-based frameworks (MoSCoW, WSJF, RICE, KANO,) to balance time-to-market, return on investment (ROI), scalability, and technical debt.

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