Product Owner

Summary

Join Syndio, a Series C technology company, as a Product Owner to shape and deliver innovative features across its expanding platform. You will contribute to intelligent compensation planning, compliance, and data-driven insights, working with product, engineering, design, and customer success teams. This role involves defining and delivering new capabilities from concept to launch, refining the product backlog, gathering user feedback, and collaborating with internal teams and customers. You will translate high-level feature ideas into actionable deliverables, build product launch materials, and monitor feature performance post-launch. The ideal candidate thrives on solving real-world problems, enjoys the pace of a high-growth company, and is eager to work across multiple product domains. Syndio offers competitive compensation, equity, flexible vacation, paid parental leave, comprehensive health benefits, life insurance, disability coverage, and a 401(k) plan. The company embraces a remote-first model.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Product Manager, Product Owner, Business Analyst, or a similar role in an Agile environment
• Exceptional communication skills, enabling you to clearly convey complex ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences, verbally and in writing
• Proficient with tools such as Jira, Notion, or other product management platforms
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to gather, interpret, and act on data-driven insights
• Passionate about understanding and addressing customer needs
• Leadership skills that inspire and foster collaboration across cross-functional teams
• Excellent organization and prioritization, effectively managing competing demands in a dynamic environment
• Strong technical aptitude and familiarity with software development concepts
• You are a morning person, capable of working earlier hours (starting at 8am), to align with our East Coast team

Responsibilities

• Conduct competitive research to help to inform strategy and competitive differentiation
• Interview internal stakeholders and customers to get feedback on feature designs
• Translate high-level feature ideas into actionable deliverables, such as epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and user flows
• Ensure developers have the product requirements and understanding to execute effectively
• Build product launch materials, such as FAQs, help manuals, and feature videos
• Serve as a liaison between customers, stakeholders, and the development team to align on priorities
• Partner closely with designers to create cohesive user experiences that reflect product strategies
• Participate in agile ceremonies such as stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives
• Communicate feature goals to ensure alignment within the team
• Collaborate with Technical Project Managers to plan releases and mitigate risks to sprint goals
• Monitor feature performance post-launch, identifying areas for improvement and optimization
• Gather and analyze customer feedback to guide ongoing enhancements
• Define and track metrics and KPIs to measure feature success and inform future development

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with UX/UI design principles and user-centered design methodologies
• Background in HR tech or SaaS products
• Familiarity with the challenges and opportunities of working in start-up environments

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation. For this role our salary is targeted at $113-$132k USD per year. Final offer amounts are determined by factors such as experience and expertise. We take a geo neutral approach to compensation within the US, meaning that we pay based on job function and level, not location
• Syndio Equity. So you can share in Syndio’s success
• Flexible Vacation Policy. We encourage our team to recharge when they need to, plus paid sick & safe time, compassion leave, and voting leave
• Paid parental leave
• Medical, Dental, Vision. Syndio pays 90% of employee premiums, and 50% for dependents
• Life Insurance & Disability. Syndio covers the full premium
• 401(k). To help you save for your future
• Remote-first model with local opportunities to meet up #LI-Remote