EATON

Disaster Recovery Product Owner

EATON$113K — $165K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
  • 5+ years in product ownership, product management, or program leadership in enterprise IT
  • 1+ year supporting disaster recovery, resilience, or large-scale infrastructure/cloud platforms
  • U.S. citizenship required
  • Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship

Responsibilities

  • Own and manage the enterprise disaster recovery product backlog
  • Develop and maintain the long-term disaster recovery product roadmap
  • Translate business continuity and resilience requirements into actionable product outcomes
  • Coordinate disaster recovery tests and assurance capabilities
  • Ensure alignment of disaster recovery strategies with architecture and delivery teams
  • Champion standardization and automation in disaster recovery processes
  • Drive continuous improvement through feedback from tests and audits

Benefits

  • Health and Welfare benefits
  • Retirement benefits
  • Various programs for paid/unpaid time away from work
  • Relocation benefits available within the United States
Full Job Description
Eaton's Corporate Sector division is currently seeking a Disaster Recovery Product Owner. This is a Hybrid-Remote role and can be based out of our location in Beachwood,OH or Pittsburgh, PA. Relocation benefits are available from within the United States!

The expected annual salary range for this role is $113000 - $165000 a year.

Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

What you'll do:

This position is responsible for increasing the Enterprise Disaster Recovery maturity by creating, prioritizing, and managing the product backlog.

The Product Owner will own Disaster Recovery for Infrastructure Services as an enterprise product capability across Eaton's hybrid cloud, on prem, and SaaS environments, in accordance with policy and governance defined by Cyber Security. This role is accountable for defining the DR product strategy and roadmap, translating business resilience requirements into prioritized product outcomes, planning and executing DR tests across the enterprise, and ensuring DR capabilities (architecture, tooling, testing, data, and remediation) deliver measurable value to the enterprise.

The Product Owner partners closely with DR Policy and Governance, Architecture, Delivery, and product teams to evolve a scalable, testable, and auditable DR capability aligned with Eaton's resilience, risk, and regulatory objectives.

Job Responsibilities

PRODUCT STRATEGY & VISION
- Own the enterprise DR product vision and strategy spanning on prem, hybrid, and multi cloud environments.
- Partner with Cyber to define what "good" looks like for DR maturity at Eaton by tier, platform, and business criticality.
- Translate business continuity, risk, regulatory, and executive resilience requirements into clear DR product outcomes.
- Maintain the long term DR product roadmap, balancing foundational capability, risk reduction, automation, and innovation.
- Develops and maintains product-specific persona and customer journeys
- Support establishment of product processes (e.g., release schedule) and support process improvement activities across product processes (Lean, Agile, Scrum, DevSecOps, etc.)

BACKLOG & PRIORITIZATION
- Own and prioritize the enterprise product backlog, decomposing work into epics and user stories
- DR capabilities and features (runbooks, automation, tooling, metrics
- Resiliancy Management Platform (data integrations, reporting capabilities, feature functionality)
- Testing and assurance capabilities
- Test coordination, data collection, reporting, evidence requirements, and after-action reports
- Make tradeoff decisions between speed, scope, risk reduction, and technical debt
- Ensure backlog alignment with DR Program execution plans and remediation demands

CROSS-TEAM LEADERSHIP & ALIGNMENT
- Act as the single accountable product owner across Cyber Security, DR Architecture and Delivery, DR Tooling & Data, DR Testing & Assurance, and DR Projects and remeidation work
- Partner with application, infrastructure, cloud, security, and BCM leaders to ensure DR requirements are embedded early in designs, align recovery strategies with platform capabilities, and standardize expectations across lines of business
- Serve as the escalation point for priority conflicts impacting enterprise recoverability
- Provide oversight and direction to team managing the technical and operational functions within DR
- Support the onboarding of internal and external resources

ENABLEMENT & CONTINUIOUS IMPROVEMENT
- Champion standardization and reuse through reference architectures, templates, and automation patterns.
- Influence adoption of automation-first and "testability by design" principles.
- Drive continuous feedback loops from tests, incidents, and audits into backlog refinement.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and approaches (e.g., advanced orchestration, chaos testing, continuous verification) for product fit.

Qualifications:

Basic (Required) Qualifications:

  • Bachelors degree from an accredited institution
  • 5+ years of experience in product ownership, product management, or program leadership within enterprise IT.
  • 1+ year of experience directly supporting disaster recovery, resilience, business continuity, or large-scale infrastructure/cloud platforms.
  • Candidate must be a United States Citizen
  • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship now and within the future


Technical Knowledge
    • Demonstrable understanding of product management and modern product delivery processes.
    • General understanding of DevSecOps principles.
    • General familiarity with modern software development principles, including code management, test automation, APIs, microservices, and cloud services.
    • Experience with Agile development and use of Jira.
    • Understanding of disaster recovery concepts, including RTO/RPO, tiering, runbooks, dependency mapping, failover/failback, hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, and enterprise platforms.
    • Proven ability to own a complex product across multiple teams without direct authority and drive alignment across architecture, delivery, testing, and operations.


Skills:

    • Strong written and verbal communication skills are vital for this role.
    • Excellent executive communication skills, with comfort presenting roadmaps, trade-offs, and risk posture.
    • Familiarity with design thinking methodologies.
    • Ability to create and manage product roadmaps.
    • Clear understanding of lean principles with respect to product and portfolio management.
    • Comfortable working directly with business leaders, cyber partners, and customer product teams.
    • Experience working with diverse global cultures, organizations, and teams.


All positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates' privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.

We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

About EATON

Eaton Corporation plc is a multinational power management company with 2020 sales of $17.9 billion, founded in the US. Eaton provides energy-efficient solutions that help customers effectively manage electrical, hydraulic, and mechanical power more efficiently, safely, and sustainably. Eaton operates through three main business segments: Electrical Products, Electrical Systems and Services, and Hydraulics. The Electrical Products segment designs, manufactures, markets, and sells electrical components, such as circuit breakers, switches, and electrical protection and control devices. The Electrical Systems and Services segment offers electrical power distribution and assemblies, as well as engineering services and automation and control solutions. The Hydraulics segment provides products such as pumps, motors, valves, cylinders, and filtration products. Eaton has a global presence with operations in North America, Europe, Asia, and other regions.
Learn more about EATON
Size
85,947 employees
Market Cap
$62.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1.4 billion
Founded
2009
5 Year Trend
-0.1%
Revenue
$17.8 billion
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