Join a dynamic Agile team in a remote Technical Product Owner role focused on ServiceNow, where you’ll help shape priorities, clarify requirements, and support delivery in a fast-moving Scaled Agile environment. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys partnering with business and technical stakeholders to turn ideas into actionable backlog items and drive meaningful platform outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Work with stakeholders and product leadership to gather business needs and translate them into clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain and prioritize the backlog, balancing competing requests and helping manage dependencies across teams.
• Support Agile and SAFe ceremonies such as backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, PI planning, and retrospectives.
• Facilitate communication between business partners and technical teams to keep work aligned and expectations clear.
• Contribute to release coordination and help ensure delivery stays on track within the broader Agile roadmap.
• Guide solution discussions with an emphasis on native ServiceNow capabilities and platform best practices.
• Partner closely with engineering teams to help ensure requirements are well understood and ready for implementation.

Skills

• Experience supporting Agile software development teams in a business analysis or product ownership capacity.
• Working knowledge of ServiceNow and familiarity with its development lifecycle.
• Hands-on experience writing user stories, defining acceptance criteria, and documenting requirements clearly.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively across business and technical audiences.
• Experience operating in a Scaled Agile environment, such as SAFe or a similar framework.
• Ability to manage priorities, support structured delivery, and adapt to changing business needs.

Preferred Skills

• Agile certifications such as CSPO, SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager, CSM, or similar.
• Experience stepping into Scrum Master or team facilitation responsibilities when needed.
• Previous involvement in ServiceNow implementations, enhancements, or modernization efforts.
• Familiarity with ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Agile Development modules, or native planning features.
• A proactive, customer-focused mindset with the flexibility to support both strategic and tactical delivery needs.

Horizontal is committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace where people of all backgrounds can contribute, grow, and succeed. We welcome applicants who bring different experiences, perspectives, and ideas to the team.

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