Remote Archer Product Owner - Evolv chez Archer

Archer Product Owner - Evolv

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’re searching for a Product Owner to drive Evolv (Governance, Risk & Compliance) initiatives across one to two cross-functional Scrum teams (each 6–10 engineers). You’ll translate customer and stakeholder needs into a clear, actionable backlog and partner closely with engineering to deliver high-impact releases. The role is fully remote, reports to a Director of Product alongside 6–8 other Product Managers and Product Owners, and sits within a 25–30-person Product organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own & Prioritise Backlogs for 1–2 Teams – Maintain, refine and sequence epics, user stories and defects, balancing new features, tech debt and urgent client requests.
• Author High-Quality User Stories – Write acceptance-criteria-driven stories that meet Definition of Ready; review completed work against Definition of Done for release sign-off.
• Sprint Leadership – Champion product goals during planning, daily stand-ups, demos and retrospectives; unblock teams with rapid decisions and clear context.
• Client-Request Triage – Evaluate incoming tickets from Customer Success/Sales, map to roadmap objectives and convert the highest-value items into backlog entries.
• Stakeholder Alignment – Sync with peer PMs/POs, UX and Engineering Leadership to ensure dependencies across teams are surfaced and resolved early.
• Release Validation – Own feature acceptance, demo preparation and internal enablement so that every increment delights users and meets GRC market needs.
• Continuous Discovery – Gather feedback, track GRC trends, analyse usage data and propose backlog adjustments that maximise customer and business value.

Required Qualifications:

• 2–4 years in a Product Owner, Business Analyst or similar role delivering SaaS products.
• Strong command of Agile/Scrum, with hands-on experience running backlogs in Jira; ProductBoard knowledge a plus.
• Excellent communicator able to bridge business, compliance and technical perspectives.
• Proven success collaborating with multiple engineering squads or a multi-team environment.
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Business, Computer Science or related field.

Preferred Qualifications: 

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

Team & Reporting:

• Structure: You’ll guide 1–2 Scrum teams (6–10 engineers each).
• Reporting Line: Reports to the Director of Product, who oversees 6–8 PMs/POs.
• Org Size: Product org totals 25–30, collaborating closely with Engineering, UX, Customer Success and Sales.

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.