Senior Specialist IT Product Owner - Scheduling Solution

What you'll do:

Job Summary

As a Senior Product Owner, you will be responsible for setting and communicating the product vision, developing and maintaining the product roadmap, and defining key operational processes such as the product release schedule. Working closely with business partners and customers, and ensure that epics align with essential business objectives for the Scrum or Kanban team.

In this role, you will track and manage product funding, defining work priorities for team members dedicated to the product. Also strike a balance between introducing new features and focusing on continuous improvement, system health, and support. Collaborating directly with analysts, engineers, and other team members, execute the product roadmap, guide the product development lifecycle, define user stories, and advocate for the customer within our product processes.

As a Product Owner handling simpler products with modest impacts on Eaton Business Outcomes, you will play a foundational role in the business. Your responsibilities include setting and communicating the product vision, maintaining the product roadmap, and influencing critical operational processes like the product release schedule. By closely engaging with business partners and customers, ensure that epics are in line with key business objectives for the Scrum or Kanban team.

You will manage product funding, prioritize work for the product team, and strike a balance between introducing new features and focusing on continuous improvement, system health, and support. Collaborating with analysts, engineers, and other team members, drive the execution of the product roadmap, oversee the product development lifecycle, define user stories, and advocate for the customer within our product processes.

Job Responsibilities:

- Define and communicate the product vision, roadmap, and epics for advanced scheduling and optimization solutions, leveraging platforms such as Dassault Ortems and Palantir to meet complex manufacturing and supply chain needs.
- Own the product backlog for scheduling and optimization capabilities, managing and prioritizing user stories, decomposing epics into features, and driving continuous improvement aligned with operational efficiency goals.
- Plan, manage, and track product funding, ensuring alignment with strategic initiatives in production planning, resource allocation, and throughput optimization. Fully responsible for product budget and profit plan.
- Develop and maintain product-specific personas and customer journeys focused on planners, schedulers, and operations managers using advanced scheduling tools.
- Collaborate closely with business stakeholders and end-users to understand constraints, priorities, and KPIs such as schedule adherence, lead time reduction, and resource utilization.
- Define and communicate goals for product increments and releases, ensuring alignment with agile delivery of scheduling algorithms, constraint-based planning features, and integration capabilities.
- Support onboarding of internal and external resources, including SMEs in manufacturing operations, supply chain planning, and software integration.
- Ensure product support, stability, and governance across scheduling platforms, including data integrity, policy compliance, cybersecurity, and system usage.
- Act as a functional expert in advanced scheduling and optimization, including finite capacity scheduling, multi-site planning, and real-time constraint management.
- Define and improve product processes such as release schedules and sprint cadences, applying Lean, Agile, and DevSecOps principles to scheduling solution delivery.
- Understand and support commercial, business, and go-to-market strategies for scheduling solutions, including licensing models, deployment options, and customer success metrics.
- Champion a Secure Product Development Lifecycle with a strong cybersecurity focus across all engineering and integration activities.
- Manage contracts and relationships with software vendors (e.g., Dassault Systèmes) and service providers to support the product strategy and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and IT standards.

Qualifications:

Required (Basic) Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
• Minimum eight (8) years of experience in roles such as analyst, consultant, or program lead, with a strong focus on technology-driven scheduling and optimization projects in manufacturing, supply chain, or operations.
• Minimum three (3) years of experience as a Product Owner or equivalent role, preferably overseeing advanced scheduling platforms like Dassault Ortems, Palantir, or similar enterprise-grade optimization tools.
• Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without company sponsorship now or in the future.
• No relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates within a 50-mile radius of one of the locations listed in the job description will be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical
area limitation.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Practical knowledge and hands-on experience in product management and modern product delivery processes, with a focus on deploying advanced scheduling and optimization platforms.
• Deep familiarity with Agile, Scrum, and Kanban methodologies, applied to cross-functional teams delivering scheduling solutions in manufacturing or supply chain environments.
• Working understanding of DevSecOps principles, especially as they relate to secure and scalable deployment of scheduling engines and optimization algorithms.
• General familiarity with modern software development practices, such as version control and code management, test automation for validating optimization outcomes and system performance, API integration for real-time data exchange between scheduling platforms and ERP/MES systems, modular and scalable solution components and cloud services (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP) used to host and scale scheduling solutions.