Senior Product Owner – Brand Data & Integration

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Position Summary

The Senior Product Owner for Brand Data & Integration (BD&I) provides strategic and day-to-day product leadership for a portfolio of critical Commercial applications and integrations supporting dealer and customer data, payment settlement, financial processes, and enterprise data distribution. This role establishes product direction, translates business priorities into actionable roadmaps, and ensures Agile delivery teams have the business context, knowledge, prioritization, and support needed to execute effectively.

A key focus of the role is building strong partnerships with Brand Strategy & Innovation and Retail Technology, helping connect evolving brand strategies, retail capabilities, and customer experiences to the underlying data, integrations, and technology required to enable them. The Product Owner works across a variety of other business and technology teams to identify dependencies, understand emerging needs, coordinate delivery, and ensure BD&I capabilities remain aligned with broader Commercial strategies and initiatives.

Serving as a central connection point between strategy and execution, the Product Owner facilitates stakeholder engagement, communicates priorities and product direction, and helps teams navigate cross-functional dependencies and competing demands. Product decisions balance business value, customer and stakeholder needs, operational reliability, technical dependencies, risk, and the long-term health and direction of the BD&I product line.

Key Responsibilities

·         Builds customer and internal facing products with superior user experience across multiple verticals, accountable for an established or moderate complexity product.

·         Ensures alignment between teams to build and prioritize product roadmaps, plan releases, and align them with business objectives.

·         Collaborates with Agile teams, stakeholders, and business representatives to address and resolve issues that arise during product development.

·         Works collaboratively with cross-functional teams, such as Research and Development, User Experience (UX), and business and operations teams, to align on product strategies, gather insights, and plan releases.

·         Identifies product-related issues, makes decisions and continuously does trade-off analyses to ensure development stays on track toward deliverable commitments.

·         Prioritizes the short-term feature backlog and releases, as well as the long-term product roadmap for products.

·         Conducts customer research, product discovery and synthesizes market factors into a cohesive product strategy.

·         Collaborates with customers to understand challenges & opportunities.

·         Collects quantitative data and takes a data driven approach to evaluate the viability of product initiatives.

·         Writes epics and stories to support completion of initiatives; ensures stories clearly communicate the customer and stakeholder needs to meet key business objectives and strategies for the product; promotes Agile approaches to product development across teams/areas.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, related field or equivalent work experience.
• Product Owner certification preferred.
• 5+ years of relevant experience required
• Experience with enterprise data integrations, APIs, system-to-system interfaces, and data flows across complex technology environments.
• Experience supporting customer/dealer data, retail technology, payment settlement, financial processes, or transaction-based systems.

Skills

• Adaptability - Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment (e.g., people, processes, structure, or culture); adjusting effectively to change by exploring the benefits, trying new approaches, and collaborating with others to make the change successful.
• AI Fundamentals - Understanding of core AI concepts and methods, ability to apply AI to job-relevant use cases and capacity to contribute to organizational AI reimagination.
• Change Management - Change Management refers to a systematic approach for defining and implementing procedures and/or technologies to deal with changes in the environment. It can mean adapting to change, controlling change and/or effecting change.
• Agile Methodology - Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle, taking incremental steps towards the completion of a project.
• Authentic Communicator - Expresses ideas and information, both verbally and in writing, clearly and credibly. Listens to understand and fosters constructive dialogue.
• Backlog Management - A prioritized list of work for the development team that is derived from the roadmap and its requirements. The most important items are shown at the top of the product backlog, so the team knows what to deliver first.
• Business Acumen - Applies knowledge of MPC’s business, industry and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals. Makes decisions and recommendations clearly linked to MPC’s strategy.
• Decision Making - Ability to know when and what decisions should be made and to make several decisions simultaneously in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Industry Product Knowledge - Industry product knowledge refers to a comprehensive understanding of the products and services within a particular industry. It encompasses familiarity with the features, functionalities, applications, and specifications of the products offered by companies operating in that industry. Industry product knowledge is crucial for
• Product Development - The creation, innovation, enhancement or improvement of an existing product, or developing an entirely new kind of product to satisfy the requirements of its end-users.
• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) - The handling of a good as it moves through the typical stages of its product life: development and introduction, growth, maturity/stability, and decline.
• User Experience (UX) - User Experience (UX) refers to the overall experience that a person has when interacting with a product, service, or system, especially in terms of how easy or pleasing it is to use.

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Location:

Findlay, Ohio

Additional locations:

San Antonio, Texas

Job Requisition ID:

00025079

Location Address:

539 S Main St

Education:

Employee Group:

Full time

Employee Subgroup:

Regular

We will consider all qualified Applicants for employment, including those with arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws. In reviewing criminal history in connection with a conditional offer of employment, Marathon will consider the key responsibilities of the role.