KeHE Distributors

Owner, IT Product

KeHE Distributors • $108K — $140K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in business, technology, or related field
  • 7+ years of experience in product management or business analysis
  • Familiarity with Agile methodologies and frameworks
  • Experience with frontend technologies like Javascript and Angular 7+
  • Proficiency in backend development using .NET Core and AWS services

Responsibilities

  • Execute product strategy and vision, translating business objectives into actionable roadmaps
  • Translate product vision into well-defined epics, features, and user stories
  • Make day-to-day scope and priority decisions to maximize team value delivery
  • Lead structured product discovery to create user stories and acceptance criteria
  • Own and maintain the product backlog, prioritizing based on value and risk
  • Develop a thorough understanding of business processes, pain points, and KPIs
  • Collaborate with engineering and UX to ensure feasibility of requirements

Benefits

  • Health and prescription drug coverage
  • Dental and vision insurance
  • Flexible and health spending accounts (FSA/HSA)
  • Supplemental life insurance
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Paid time off and sick time
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage
  • Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)
  • Holiday pay for designated company holidays
Full Job Description
  • Full-time
  • Pay Range: $108,680.00/Yr. - $140,000.00/Yr.
  • Shift Days: , Shift Time:
  • Benefits on Day 1
    • Health/Rx
    • Dental
    • Vision
    • Flexible and health spending accounts (FSA/HSA)
    • Supplemental life insurance
    • 401(k)
    • Paid time off
    • Paid sick time
    • Short term & long term disability coverage (STD/LTD)
    • Employee stock ownership (ESOP)
    • Holiday pay for company designated holidays
    Overview

    At KeHE, we’re obsessed with creating solutions, unboxing potential, and serving others – and it all starts with you. As an employee-owned distributor of natural and organic, specialty, and fresh products, we’re committed to making a positive impact and scaling our success together. With a culture that fosters development and opportunity, you’ll be embarking on a career that’s moving forward. When you join KeHE, you’re becoming part of a team that is a force for good.

    Primary Responsibilities

    The Product Owner (PO) will execute the product strategy and roadmap collaborating closing with principal and engineering leads to ensure the backlog is fully defined and ready to be executed. This role is responsible for prioritizing and communicating the work to the business owner, ensuring that the team delivers solutions that drive measurable outcomes.

    The Product Owner partners closely with the Product Director and/or Product Manager to align product work to strategic objectives and collaborates with engineering, design, and business stakeholders to ensure effective delivery and adoption.

    Essential Functions

    DUTIES, TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

    • Execute and communicate product strategy and vision, translating business objectives into actionable roadmaps and prioritized backlogs.
    • Translate product vision, strategy, and roadmap into well-defined epics, features, and user stories.
    • Make day-to-day scope and priority decisions to maximize value delivered by the team.
    • Lead structured product discovery, translating insights from user interviews, process mapping, and business analysis into clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
    • Fully own and maintain the product backlog, prioritizing using value, risk, dependencies, and team capacity.
    • Maintain a clear near-term roadmap, balancing new features, technical debt, bugs, and enablers.
    • Develop and demonstrate a deep understanding of business processes, personas, pain points, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and user workflows.
    • Drive sprint clarity, answer team questions quickly, review and accept work, and support predictable delivery.
    • Manage diverse stakeholders, clarify expectations, handle conflicts, and deliver clear status updates.
    • Collaborate closely with Engineering and UX to ensure requirements are feasible, clearly understood, and testable.
    • Accept or reject completed work based on defined acceptance criteria.
    • Track delivery and output metrics (e.g., velocity, story completion, adoption, user feedback) to inform prioritization, measure success and define future KPIs.
    • Ensure delivered capabilities meet quality standards, acceptance criteria and business intent.
    • Demonstrate strong ownership, collaboration, resilience, and a customer-focused product mindset.

    SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES:

    • Strong knowledge of Product Centric Delivery model and Agile practices.
    • Expert in understanding user needs, and KPIs.
    • Proven ability to translate strategic objectives into actionable plans and priorities.
    • Exceptional communication, stakeholder management skills and relationship-building skills, with a focus on cultivating and maintaining strong professional connections.
    • Proficient in product discovery, backlog management, and agile delivery.
    • Strong analytical mindset with experience leveraging data to drive decisions.
    • Comfortable and effective working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment with competing priorities.
    • Collaborative, resilient, and proactive approach to problem-solving.
    • Experience and understanding of data warehousing concepts and modeling with basic SQL skills
    Minimum Requirements, Qualifications, Additional Skills, Aptitude

    EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

    • Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, or related field.
    • At least seven years of relevant experience in product management, business analysis, or related roles.
    • Familiarity with Agile methodologies and product management frameworks.
    • Certifications in Product, Project or Agile methodologies preferred.
    • Experience with frontend software Javascript and Angular 7+
    • Experience with backend software .NET Core and AWS (Lambda microservices, SNS/SQS, API Gateway, S3, Aurora Postgres RDS)

    PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

    • These physical demands are representative of the physical requirements necessary for an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.
    Requisition ID2026-30194

About KeHE Distributors

KeHE Distributors is a food distribution company that provides natural and organic, specialty and fresh products to grocery and natural food stores. The company was founded in 1953 and is headquartered in Romeoville, Illinois. KeHE Distributors has over 16,000 products and serves over 30,000 customers.
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Size
5,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1952

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