Senior Product Owner at Anaplan

At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market. What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture. Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies who rely on our best-in-class platform. Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals, and we love celebrating our wins – big and small. Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, values-based and disciplined in execution, you’ll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and let’s build what’s next - together! Anaplan is looking for a passionate Product Owner to join our team, focusing on the core experience of our Anaplan application builders. This role will work directly with our platform engineering teams to translate the needs of our application building community into actionable, technical requirements that shape the future of our platform. The ideal candidate is an expert Anaplan model builder who is ready to apply their deep domain knowledge to a product role and act as the voice of the builder within the engineering organization. Your Impact • Own, prioritize, and manage the product backlog for one or more platform engineering teams, ensuring it aligns with the strategic product roadmap. • Act as the primary liaison between product management and platform engineering, translating high-level product strategy into detailed user stories and acceptance criteria. • Lead backlog grooming sessions, sprint planning meetings, and sprint reviews to ensure the engineering team has a clear understanding of what they are building and why. • Leverage your deep Anaplan model building expertise to define and validate requirements, ensuring that new platform capabilities meet the real-world needs of our builders. • Collaborate closely with UX designers, technical writers, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality, well-documented platform features. • Accept user stories as "done" by validating that the engineering output meets the acceptance criteria and delivers the intended value. • Effectively communicate the status of the product backlog, sprint goals, and release plans to stakeholders across the organization. Required Skills • Proven experience working directly with software engineering teams in an Agile/Scrum environment. • Strong understanding of the Product Owner role, including backlog management, prioritization, and user story writing. • Ability to translate complex business and user needs into clear, concise, and actionable technical requirements for an engineering team. • Excellent proficiency with Agile development management tools, particularly Jira and Confluence. • Highly analytical and skilled at breaking down large, complex problems into smaller, manageable pieces of work. • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. • A passion for the Anaplan platform and a deep empathy for the model builder community. Team player with a collaborative mindset and the ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced, quickly changing environment. Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive culture strengthens our business. DEIB improves our workforce, enhances trust with our partners and customers, and drives business success. Build your career in a place where diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging aren’t just words on paper – this is what drives our innovation, it’s how we connect, and it contributes to what makes us a market leader. We believe in a hiring and working environment where all people are respected and valued, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day!  We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.  Fraud Recruitment Disclaimer  It has come to our attention that fraudulent and fictitious job opportunities are being circulated on the Internet. Prospective candidates are being contacted by certain individuals, mainly through telephone calls, emails and correspondence, claiming they are representatives of Anaplan. The main purpose of these correspondences and announcements is to obtain privileged information from individuals.   Anaplan does not:  • Extend offers to candidates without an extensive interview process with a member of our recruitment team and a hiring manager via video or in person.   • Send job offers via email. All offers are first extended verbally by a member of our internal recruitment team whenever possible and then followed up via written communication.  All emails from Anaplan would come from an @anaplan.com email address. Should you have any doubts about the authenticity of an email, letter or telephone communication purportedly from, for, or on behalf of Anaplan, please send an email to [Upgrade to PRO to see contact] before taking any further action in relation to the correspondence.