Duke Energy Corporation

Senior Product Owner

Duke Energy Corporation$110K — $130K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree or equivalent experience.
  • Minimum 4 years related work experience, or 8 years with a High School/GED.
  • 9+ years of experience preferred.
  • Product Owner Certification is a plus.
  • Strong understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

  • Define and manage the product roadmap.
  • Build, groom, and prioritize the product backlog.
  • Manage the sprint planning process and relevant ceremonies.
  • Develop an understanding of customer and user needs.
  • Gather market feedback through user interactions and research.
  • Write detailed functional specifications and user stories.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement new products.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work environment after onboarding, allowing for both remote and on-site work.
  • Collaborative work with cross-functional teams, promoting innovation and dynamic problem-solving.
  • Opportunity to work on complex or large-scale products, enhancing professional skill set.
  • Engagement in a fast-paced environment focused on technology products.
  • Development of critical communication skills across different organizational levels.
Full Job Description

Important Application Submission Information

In order to ensure your application is successfully received before the job posting expires, please submit your application by 11:59 PM on Friday, September 18, 2026

Job Summary

The Senior Product Owner defines, delivers, and manages the lifecycle of products in a product portfolio. Leads a single product team developing a complex or large-scale product as defined by the Product Complexity Model.

Responsibilities
  • Defines and manages product roadmap

  • Build, groom and prioritize the product backlog, continuously managing expectations with relevant stakeholders – including the senior leadership team

  • Manage the sprint planning process and participate in all relevant ceremonies (reviews of prior sprints, grooming, retrospectives, etc.)

  • Develop a deep contextual understanding of our customer, worker and user needs

  • Gather market feedback through user interactions, focus groups, and by performing industry research to support future development

  • Write detailed functional specifications, user stories and product documentation

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams of developers, designers and analysts to implement and deliver new products and features

  • Collaborate with the organization on vision, strategy, decisioning, tactical execution, and measurement systems

  • Communicate roadmap stages and timelines internally with key stakeholders

Basic/Required Qualifications
  • Bachelors degree

  • Minimum 4 years related work experience

  • In lieu of Bachelors degree(s) AND 4 year(s) related work experience listed above, High School/GED AND 8 year(s) related work experience

Desired Qualifications
  • 9+ years of experience

  • Product Owner Certification

  • Entrepreneurial with a strong inclination towards action, preferably with experience shipping software

  • Ability to communicate complex and innovative concepts to a new product development team

  • Clear passion for topics of technology products and an ability to identify possibilities to innovate

  • Ability to be self-directed and to proactively anticipate problems and seek opportunities.

  • Excellent communication skills including the ability to build relationships and effectively influence across all management and organizational levels.

  • Strong understanding of the SDLC process and the ability to work in an agile environment with bi-weekly releases

  • Experience with relevant new product or technology development experience working in a fast-paced environment

  • Experience operating in an environment driven by KPIs where you have the accountability to determine the best course of action to meet your goals.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience as a Senior Product Owner

  • Agile Product Owner certification

  • "Black Belt" Six Sigma certification

  • Experience with Jira

  • Experience leading product development initiatives that leverage AI capabilities to deliver measurable business value and operational outcomes.

  • Experience withDuke Energy’s grid planning functions

Working Conditions
  • Hybrid Mobility Classification – Work will be performed from both remote and onsite locations after the onboarding period. However, hybrid employees must live within a reasonable commute to their designated Duke Energy facility, not greater than 50 miles one way. Employees are expected to report to their assigned Duke Energy facility as required and directed by their manager, on average 3 full workdays per regular workweek.

  • Office environment mostly, often with research, analysis or engagement conducted in plants or field

Specific Requirements
  • Entrepreneurial with a strong inclination towards action, preferably with experience shipping software

  • Ability to communicate complex and innovative concepts to a new product development team

  • Clear passion for topics of technology products and an ability to identify possibilities to innovate

  • Ability to be self-directed and to proactively anticipate problems and seek opportunities

  • Excellent communication skills including the ability to build relationships and effectively influence across all management and organizational levels

  • Strong understanding of the SDLC process and the ability to work in an agile environment with bi-weekly releases

  • Experience with relevant new product or technology development experience working in a fast-paced environment

  • Experience operating in an environment driven by KPIs where you have the accountability to determine the best course of action to meet your goals

Travel Requirements

5-15%

Relocation Assistance Provided (as applicable)
No

Represented/Union Position
No

Visa Sponsored Position
No. This is not a Visa Sponsored Position. This role requires the ability to work lawfully in the U.S. without employment-based immigration sponsorship, now or in the future.


Please note that in order to be considered for this position, you must possess all of the basic/required qualifications.

About Duke Energy Corporation

Duke Energy is one of the largest energy holding companies in the United States. Its Electric Utilities and Infrastructure business unit serves approximately 7.5 million customers located in six states in the Southeast and Midwest.

Duke Energy Corporation Careers

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Size
27,605 employees
Market Cap
$79 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1.3 billion
5 Year Trend
+2%
Revenue
$23.8 billion
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