Senior Product Owner, NG&NGL Digital Operations

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Position Summary

The Senior Product Owner will join the Digital Operations Product Team within the Natural Gas & Natural Gas Liquids Services Operations Excellence and Insights Product Family.  As a Senior Product Owner, you will lead the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of digital products that improve operational visibility, reliability, and decision-making across Marathon Petroleum’s NG&NGLs organization. You will partner with Operations, Reliability, Data Analytics and AI, Engineering, and other Digital teams to transform operational data into actionable insights and predictive maintenance solutions. This role is responsible for defining product vision, prioritizing business outcomes, and driving adoption of digital solutions that enhance asset performance, operational efficiency, and reliability. By aligning business needs with modern analytics, industrial data platforms, AI-enabled insights, and operational intelligence technologies, you will enable field and business teams to make more informed decisions and realize measurable value from digital investments. This role will be expected to identify, collect, and evaluate new technology ideas, strategic extensions, or enhancements to existing products and/or services to determine their potential to address customer needs and to achieve goals in revenue growth and market share. Manages product lifecycles, including intent, definition, design, planning, development, prototyping and testing.

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 supporting natural gas, natural gas liquids, midstream, pipeline, terminal, or related industrial operations preferred.
• Experience with industrial data platforms, operational intelligence tools, asset performance management solutions, predictive maintenance technologies, or advanced analytics preferred.
• Experience leading digital product strategy, roadmap development, backlog prioritization, and adoption for operational or data-driven products preferred.
• Experience translating business and field-user needs into epics, user stories, measurable outcomes, and product requirements preferred.
• Experience partnering with Operations, Reliability, Engineering, Data Analytics, or AI teams to deliver cross-functional digital solutions preferred.

Skills

• 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:

Denver, Colorado

Job Requisition ID:

00024840

Pay Min/Max:

$106,900.00 - $160,300.00 Salary

Grade:

11

Location Address:

1515 Arapahoe St Twr1 Ste 1600

Additional locations:

Findlay, Ohio, Houston, Texas, San Antonio, Texas

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.