Hop
Product Owner – Enterprise Systems
Los Angeles
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 96 days ago
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About the role
- Our client is a Tech/Family Office company serving the investments, foundations, and activities of a prominent family.
- With a broad mandate, the organization oversees diverse assets and programs, including multiple foundations and institutes.
- The ideal candidate is a decisive, systems-oriented operator who thrives without a detailed playbook and knows how to cut through complexity to keep teams moving.
Responsibilities
- Own the Product Backlog: Define, prioritize, and maintain a well-groomed backlog of features, enhancements, and technical work across enterprise systems. Make clear prioritization calls and communicate the rationale to stakeholders and engineering teams.
- Drive Clarity from Ambiguity: Operate confidently in environments where requirements are incomplete or shifting.
- Stakeholder Alignment: Partner with the grants, finance, and operations teams to translate strategic priorities into a coherent product roadmap. Manage competing demands, surface tradeoffs clearly, and build consensus without losing velocity.
- Agile Delivery Leadership: Lead planning, refinement, demos, and retrospectives. Unblock teams quickly, make scope decisions in real time, and hold a high bar for what gets shipped.
- AI & Automation Integration: Identify and scope opportunities to embed AI-driven workflows, natural language interfaces, and intelligent automation into enterprise systems - improving data quality, reporting efficiency, and decision support for end users.
- Collaborate with data engineers and BI teams to ensure outputs are accurate, performant, and user-relevant.
- Vendor & Integration Management: Own product-level relationships with key vendors and data providers. Define integration requirements, evaluate build vs. buy decisions, and ensure third-party systems meet long-term scalability needs.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work fluidly across engineering, UX/design, data, finance, and operations. Translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders and be the connective tissue that keeps everyone aligned on what's being built and why.
- Travel: Willingness to travel occasionally as needed to meet with stakeholders, attend planning sessions, or support key project milestones.
- High agency and self-starter mentality - you identify gaps, create structure where none exists, and move work forward without needing to be directed.
Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments - comfortable owning decisions with incomplete information and course-correcting quickly as context evolves.
- Familiarity with AI/ML capabilities and practical experience scoping AI-assisted features for enterprise users.
- Proven track record of driving clarity: converting vague stakeholder needs into well-defined, actionable product requirements that engineering teams can execute confidently.
- experience owning and grooming a complex multi-team backlog in Jira or equivalent.
- Experience defining requirements for data-heavy applications: dashboards, reporting tools, analytics views, and multi-entity data models.
- Ideal Candidate Profile:
Nice to have
- Decisive under ambiguity - gathers just enough context to make a good call, makes it, and moves.
- 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager for complex enterprise systems - grants management, investment management, financial operations, ERP, or data-intensive platforms strongly preferred.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or related field
- advanced degree a plus.
Compensation
- Across its entities, it manages hundreds of employees and oversees significant annual expenditures, ranging from grants and gifts to private investments and operational costs.
Benefits
- Compensation includes a strong base + bonus (no equity, as they're private).
- Brings structure to chaos without slowing teams down - backlogs are clear, tickets are precise, acceptance criteria leave no room for interpretation.
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