Product Owner

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Latin America.

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of Sentinel's product backlog from start to finish — including grooming, prioritization, dependency management, and ensuring sprint readiness.

• Guarantee that 100% of items entering a sprint have clearly defined acceptance criteria, thus minimizing rework caused by ambiguous scopes.

• Frame backlog items as testable hypotheses when applicable, maintaining alignment with Sentinel's PMF learning agenda and ensuring the team understands what success looks like in each cycle.

• Lead sprint ceremonies — including planning, refinement, review, and retrospectives — while pragmatically adapting agile practices to meet the actual needs of the team.

• Convert strategic directives from the CTO into clear, well-defined stories, asking the right clarifying questions upfront to avoid rework later in the process.

• Proactively initiate and organize discovery work in every sprint cycle — including user feedback synthesis, assumption mapping, and delivery retrospectives — while presenting evidence-based recommendations to the CTO.

• Serve as the main point of contact for requirement clarification during development, facilitating quick resolutions for engineers and maintaining sprint integrity.

• Define, monitor, and report on delivery health KPIs through Jira — including sprint predictability, defect leakage, and cycle time — ensuring the CTO has continuous visibility into the quality of Sentinel's delivery.

• Actively participate in roadmap and product direction discussions, offering a grounded, delivery-informed perspective to strategic conversations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.

• Minimum of 3 years of prior experience in product ownership or a closely related role within a tech company, preferably as the primary or sole Product Owner on a product.

• Extensive experience working in the B2B SaaS market.

• In-depth understanding of the software development lifecycle — from code changes flowing through development, staging, and production environments, to QA evaluation and release.

• Demonstrated ability to independently manage a comprehensive product backlog, including stories, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and prioritization.

• Strong experience in applying Agile/Scrum methodologies.

• Proficient in using Jira for project, backlog, and sprint management.

• Previous experience in an early-stage, high-growth, and fast-paced startup environment.

• Familiarity with MS Office/Excel, Google Suite, and Notion.

• Willingness to travel as necessary to support events and meet the team.

• Fluent in Portuguese.

• Advanced proficiency in English.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements

• Professional development opportunities