Technical Product Owner (O&G background w/SAFe Agile exp)

Location: Houston, United States

Company

hirify.global develops enterprise planning, scheduling, optimization, and supply chain software for refinery, petrochemical, and energy customers.

What you will do

• Own, refine, and prioritize the team backlog in alignment with product vision, roadmap priorities, customer commitments, and PI objectives.
• Translate refinery, petrochemical, and supply chain workflows into features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and non-functional requirements.
• Execute Product Owner responsibilities within the SAFe cadence, including PI Planning, iteration planning, backlog refinement, reviews, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt.
• Partner with Product Management, Engineering, Architecture, UX, Quality, Services, and customers to evaluate feasibility, integrations, dependencies, and technical trade-offs.
• Define story value and sequencing, accept completed work, support release readiness and customer validation, and prioritize issues.
• Use delivery, flow, quality, and customer feedback metrics to improve transparency and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Mathematics, Operations Research, or a related field.
• 8+ years of relevant experience in technical product ownership, business analysis, product development, or enterprise software delivery.
• Practical Product Owner experience in SAFe or a comparable Agile framework, including backlog ownership and PI and iteration cadences.
• Experience developing software products for Oil & Gas, refining, petrochemical, manufacturing, or supply chain operations.
• Knowledge of planning, scheduling, optimization, inventory management, logistics, distribution, or demand planning workflows.
• Technical aptitude with software architecture, data models, APIs, integrations, cloud platforms, non-functional requirements, and Agile tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira.

Nice to have

• Hands-on programming or software development experience with C#/.NET, C++, SQL, APIs, or enterprise application platforms.
• Knowledge of mathematical modeling, numerical methods, optimization, analytics, or decision-support systems.
• SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager or related Agile certification.
• Experience with cloud-based enterprise products, DevOps, CI/CD, or globally distributed development teams.
• Experience working directly with refinery, petrochemical, energy, or supply chain customers.

Culture & Benefits

• Culture focused on engineering excellence, customer focus, continuous improvement, and collaboration.
• Career development programs supporting professional growth.
• Opportunities to participate in community service projects and social events.
• Cross-team collaboration across product management, engineering, architecture, quality, and delivery.