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Archer Product Owner - Solutions

Location: Remote - Kansas (candidates must be on Central Standard Time).

For nearly 25 years, Archer has been a pioneer and a trusted global leader in delivering comprehensive compliance and risk management solutions to empower organizations to effectively navigate risks, ensure compliance, and achieve their business objectives. Our innovative GRC solutions are designed to provide companies with a clear, unified perspective on their risk landscape and enable data-driven decision-making and strategic planning. By leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as AI and risk quantification, we equip our clients to anticipate, adapt to, and overcome challenges in today’s rapidly evolving market. At Archer, we don’t just help organizations manage risk — we help our clients transform risk into a strategic advantage and turn uncertainty into opportunity. Learn more at www.ArcherIRM.com

Role Overview:

We are looking for a Product Owner to support product development across a suite of Archer’s risk and compliance solutions, including ESG, Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM), Audit, Document Governance and AI Governance. Solution areas may change and evolve over time.
In this role, you will work closely with Product Leads to translate strategic direction into clear, actionable work for development teams. You will own backlog management, write and refine user stories, and help ensure timely, high-quality product releases and enhancements. Success in this role requires strong cross-functional collaboration with engineering, design, and customer-facing teams to deliver solutions that are valuable, usable, and aligned with product strategy.

This position reports to the Director of Product, with a dotted-line working relationship to the respective Product Leads within the Archer Product Organization. The role is remote and best suited for a self-starter who can work effectively across global teams and time zones.
 

Key Responsibilities:

• Backlog Ownership: Manage and maintain the product backlog in Jira, ensuring it is clearly structured, properly categorized, and continuously prioritized based on product goals, stakeholder input, and evolving business needs.
• User Story Development: Translate product requirements into clear, actionable user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria. Ensure stories are well understood by the development team and ready for implementation.
• Sprint Engagement: Actively participate in sprint ceremonies by providing clear priorities, answering questions, and ensuring development work aligns with product goals. Review deliverables to confirm they meet requirements and are ready for release.
• Client Feedback Management: Assess incoming requests and tickets from Customer Success and Sales teams, collaborate with the Product Lead to align them with roadmap priorities, and translate the highest-value items into backlog entries for development.
• Release Preparedness: Own feature acceptance by validating functionality against agreed criteria to ensure high quality. Review completed work against the Definition of Done to confirm readiness and support release sign-off. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive product enablement and ensure smooth launch readiness.
• Product Lead Support: Continuously collaborate with and assist Product Leads in:
  • Managing solution workflows and boards in ProductBoard,
  • Preparing materials for product briefing events for clients, analysts, and partners,
  • Creating and reviewing product documentation and telemetry data.

Required Qualifications:

• 2–4 years of experience in a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or similar role, supporting SaaS product delivery.
• Solid understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies, with experience managing backlogs in Jira. Familiarity with ProductBoard is a plus.
• Effective communicator with the ability to navigate across business and technical teams, and clear writing skills.
• Experience collaborating with multiple engineering squads or working in a cross-functional, multi-team environment.
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent practical experience) in Computer Science, Business, or a related field.

Preferred Skills:

• Exposure to governance, risk and compliance (GRC), risk, audit or regulatory software.
• CSPO, PMI-ACP or equivalent Agile certification.
• Experience working with distributed, remote-first teams.

Other Duties: 

• Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice at management discretion based on business need.

About Archer’s Culture and Work Environment:

Our people, team collaboration and dynamic leadership is the centerpiece of our great culture and the reason for Archer’s 25 years of success. Over the years, many companies and global organizations have been faced with tough decisions. Layoffs, reorganizations, acquisitions, and mergers. Yet, throughout these challenging times, Archer has exemplified strong innovation and growth and a commitment to our employees.

Why is this possible? Collaboration is the key to our success. It inspires great innovation and innovative ideas. It is why Archer's is a household name in the GRC space. Companies, from F500 – F1000, come to Archer first - for our thought leadership and for our ability to meet customers where they are.
As we continue to grow and evolve, our focus will remain the same: continue innovating, support our customers and employees and continue driving the risk management industry to new levels.

 

Archer is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Archer are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Archer will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. All Archer employees are expected to support this policy and contribute to an environment of equal opportunity.                  

If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please contact [email protected]. All employees must be legally authorized to work in the US. Archer participates in E-Verify. Archer and its approved consultants will never ask you for a fee to process or consider your application for a career with Archer. Archer reserves the right to amend or withdraw any job posting at any time, including prior to the advertised closing date.