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The role balances product enhancements with production stability, incident-driven priorities, technical health, vendor coordination, and evolving user needs. Working closely with business stakeholders, support, operations, and external providers, the Product Owner establishes clear product goals, orders the backlog, evaluates outcomes, and ensures that changes deliver measurable value.\nRequired Experience & Skills:\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.\n3+ years of Product Ownership experience, including Agile Scrum practices.\nDemonstrated ability to:\nLead through influence, facilitate decisions, resolve competing priorities, and align business, technical, operational, and vendor stakeholders.\nAnalyze complex software behavior, reproduce issues, assess business impact, and coordinate diagnosis and resolution with technical, support, and vendor teams.\nCreate clear, appropriately scaled product artifacts, including goals, roadmap outcomes, user stories, acceptance criteria, nonfunctional requirements, defects, operational improvements, and decision records.\nPrioritize and organize customer feedback, product data, support cases, incident trends, and operational metrics to guide product and service performance.\nCustomer-focused mindset with empathy, curiosity, sound judgment, and a commitment to continuous learning and improvement.\nProactive, adaptable, and effective when working through ambiguity, change, and deadline pressure.\nResponsibilities:\nBusiness Intake and Prioritization:\nBuild relationships across departments to understand business processes, user needs, pain points, and desired outcomes.\nGather and clarify requirements with stakeholders, end users, and subject matter experts; organize requests for prioritization based on business value, user impact, risk, dependencies, and organizational objectives.\nBacklog and Roadmap Management:\nMaintain a clear backlog and roadmap covering enhancements, defects, operational improvements, and support-driven needs.\nCommunicate priorities, requirements, constraints, and expected outcomes to stakeholders and vendor(s).\nVendor Governance, Delivery, and Validation:\nReview vendor solutions, plans, estimates, dependencies, delivery progress, commitments, and service-level obligations; escalate gaps and risks.\nCoordinate QA and UAT for release readiness, including defect resolution, business impacts, communications, training, and support readiness\nProduction Health and Continuous Improvement:\nMonitor service performance, incidents, recurring defects, user feedback, and operational metrics to identify risks and improvement opportunities.\nReview major incidents, root causes, corrective actions, and delivered outcomes with support, operations, and the vendor.\nProduct Knowledge and Documentation:\nMaintain product knowledge and essential documentation, including goals, requirements, decisions, roadmap outcomes, and release notes.\nOther duties as assigned.\nThe base salary compensation range for this role is $85,000 to $105,000. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidate’s relevant work experience, skills, certifications, and geographic location. Full time positions are eligible for benefits that include participation in a retirement plan, life and disability insurance, health, dental and vision plans, flexible spending accounts, 15 paid vacation days, 2 paid personal days, 9 paid holidays, 40 hours of paid sick leave, parental leave, and employee stock purchase plan.\nEEO AND INCLUSIVITY:\nSinclair is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and a drug free workplace. Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by virtue of an applicant's or employee's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.\nAbout Sinclair:\nSinclair, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBGI) is a diversified media company and a leading provider of local news and sports. The Company owns, operates and/or provides services to 177 television stations in 79 markets affiliated with all major broadcast networks; owns Tennis Channel, the premium destination for tennis enthusiasts; and multicast networks CHARGE, Comet, ROAR and The Nest. Sinclair’s AMP Media produces a growing portfolio of digital content and original podcasts. Additional information about Sinclair can be found at www.sbgi.net.\nAbout the Team\nThe life-blood of our organization is our people. We have a compelling story, a goal-oriented culture, and we take really good care of people. How good? Here is a glimpse: great benefits, open-door policy, upward mobility and a strong desire to see you succeed. Ready to be part of a winning team? 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