Product Owner

*This position is located in Urbandale, Iowa and it is a requirement to work on-site

 

Why WorldWide?

Worldwide Logistics in one of the fastest growing 3PLs in the country. We operate with reinforced core values, confidence, and take pride in the job that we do every day. The transportation world is rooted in relationships - we take pride in the connections that we create on and offsite by using our unique ability to partner with others. We have an innovative and progressive culture that allows for career growth and financial rewards.

Since 1999, WorldWide Logistics has grown exponentially leading to continuous rapid growth. This has given us the ability to build a brand new 76,000 square foot HQ building completed in 2023. Our new HQ features a modern amenity rich environment for employees including a café, numerous collaborative areas, food markets, a large outdoor patio seating area, and a quarter mile lighted walking path around a serene pond.

WorldWide Logistics is passionate about continuous improvement and seeking out individuals who are innovative, proactive, motivated, and coachable. One of our most impactful qualities is the ability to embrace challenges, grow through change, and encourage creativity to get ahead of the constant market variables.

 

Purpose of the Job:

The Product Owner within the PMO drives projects from ideation through delivery, spanning product ownership, business analysis, and delivery management. This role translates business needs into actionable requirements, facilitates collaboration between business and technical teams, and ensures successful delivery aligned with stakeholder expectations, all while maintaining disciplined project tracking and communication through the corporate Project Portfolio Management system.

 

Responsibilities

• Manage the end-to-end project lifecycle including project scope, timeline, and quality expectations.
• Coordinate cross-project dependencies in PMO standups.
• Maintain accurate weekly project status in the PPM system — documenting health, risks, and progress while identifying, escalating, and resolving risks and dependencies within SLA timeframes.
• Conduct stakeholder interviews and brainstorming sessions to elicit business requirements.
• Coordinate with stakeholders, architecture, and engineering requirements for signoff.
• Convert unstructured business inputs (meeting transcripts, diagrams, email threads) into structured intake artifacts suitable for the agentic pipeline.
• Develop and maintain structured prompt templates that drive agentic requirement generation, PRD synthesis, and story decomposition.
• Drive AI-first delivery practices by leveraging agentic tools including Claude Code, VS Code, and GitHub Copilot for requirement gathering, automated PRD generation, and continuous workflow improvement.
• Author and maintain AI-ready spec artifacts formatted for direct consumption by agentic development pipelines.
• Serve as the human-in-the-loop reviewer within the AI-DLC pipeline, validating AI-generated work products (PRDs, Epics, Features) before promotion to engineering.
• Review, refine, and approve AI-generated user stories and acceptance criteria in Azure DevOps before promotion to the engineering backlog.
• Validate project completion and operational success.
• Contribute to PMO process improvements and best practices.
• Support team members and share knowledge across projects.

 

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Project Management, or related field.
• PMP, CSM, CSPO, or equivalent project management certification preferred.
• Proven track record of successful project delivery.
• Experience writing technical requirements and user stories.

 

Desired Qualifications

• 3+ years in product ownership, business analysis, or project management.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum development environments.
• Demonstrated experience managing stakeholders and facilitating requirement sessions.
• Apply domain knowledge of Supply Chain, Transportation, and Logistics to inform requirement decisions.

 

Technical Skills

• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Proficiency with Azure DevOps or similar project management platforms.
• Ability to create prototypes with modern development tools.
• Apply Agile/Scrum frameworks and practices within a hybrid delivery environment.
• Gen AI concepts and the ability to execute in an AI-First organization.
• Elicit, document, and validate requirements across business and technical stakeholders.
• Analyze and report project and delivery data using Power BI.

 

What’s in it for You?

At WorldWide Logistics, we value our employees and believe in providing a positive work environment. As part of our team, you will enjoy:

• Brand new HQ building in Urbandale off I-80/35
• Opportunities for career advancement
• Catered lunches and weekly food trucks
• Monthly Employee Appreciation Day
• Company Swag
• Employee Clubs i.e., Gardening, Art, Book, Dungeons and Dragons, etc.
• Bags Tournaments (Future outdoor recreation coming soon)
• Community Involvement
• Casual dress
• PTO Plan
• Full suite of benefits including health, dental, vision, flexible spending plans, life insurance, voluntary life, voluntary short-term disability, voluntary long-term disability, 401k with a match, voluntary ID Theft plan
• Access to cutting-edge technology
• A collaborative and supportive team culture
• A company where your ideas are valued