Senior Product Owner, Digital Experience

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  Strategic Leadership: Lead cross-functional teams to align product execution with organizational goals, communicating the product vision and roadmap effectively.

  
  
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  Vision and Roadmap: Collaborate with stakeholders to develop and maintain a clear product vision and roadmap, ensuring strategic alignment.

  
  
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  User Research: Partner with the experience team for user research, leveraging data analytics to identify trends and opportunities.

  
  
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  Backlog Management: Oversee the product backlog, ensuring clarity, prioritization, and alignment with development team capabilities.

  
  
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  User Story Development: Define and prioritize user stories with clear acceptance criteria, aligning with product goals and user needs.

  
  
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  Development Collaboration: Work closely with the development team, providing direction and removing impediments while bridging the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders.

  
  
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  Market Analysis: Stay informed about market trends, competitive landscape, and emerging technologies, applying this knowledge to product strategy.

  
  
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  Feature Prioritization: Prioritize features based on value delivery and user experience enhancement.

  
  
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  UX/UI Collaboration: Work with UX/UI teams on concept designs and wireframes, ensuring user-centric product development.

  
  
• Stakeholder Communication: Effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders, simplifying complex technical topics for diverse audiences.
  
  

• Partners with product teams to align product direction with the broader digital vision and user experience strategy
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  Works closely with Marketing, Web Operations, and the integrated IS web teams (UX/UI + development) to streamline and coordinate intake and prioritization processes to create an integrated product roadmap for our digital properties aligned with strategic initiatives, including those around digital transformation.

  
  
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  Owns prioritization and execution of the digital product roadmap, ensuring timely delivery of high-impact features across web and mobile platforms

  
  
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  Collaborates with departments across APS to support organization-wide digital goals

  
  
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  Works closely with UX, engineering, and analytics teams to turn ideas into tested, user-informed solutions

  
  
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  Acts as the voice of the user in product planning, bringing insight from feedback and behavioral data

  
  
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  Operates independently as a senior individual contributor, reporting to the Head of Product Development & Delivery

  
  
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  Supports governance, measurement, and continuous improvement practices related to APS's digital experience

  
  
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  Promotes flexible, feedback-driven delivery and clear team alignment

  
  
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  Individual contributor role

  
  

Preferred Education:Advanced degree and or Master's degree in Business, Computer Science, Marketing, Engineering, Technology, or related fields preferred.

Preferred Certifications:

• Product Ownership: Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO)
• User Experience (UX) / Customer Experience (CX): CUA (HFI), UXC (Nielsen Norman Group), or CCXP (CXPA)

• Minimum of five years of experience in digital product ownership, web experience management, digital marketing, or technology-driven environments.
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  Preferred experience includes hands-on work with content management systems (CMS), with an understanding of end-to-end publishing workflows and the ability to collaborate closely with other teams to deliver seamless digital experiences.

  
  
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  Advanced experience working with customer data platforms (CDP) and marketing automation tools, with a strong grasp of how these technologies enable personalized engagement, audience segmentation, and integrated campaign execution across digital channels.

  
  
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  Proven ability to lead the development of digital products from concept through launch and iteration, with a clear focus on user impact and organizational outcomes.

  
  
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  Strong foundation in user-centered design principles and systems thinking, with a commitment to solving real problems through iterative, insight-driven development.

  
  
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  Experience using modern product tools to manage scope, track progress, and coordinate cross-functional teams; familiarity with Asana & Airtable is a plus.

  
  
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  Skilled at navigating ambiguity, shifting priorities, and evolving requirements while maintaining clear communication and forward momentum.

  
  
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  Excellent collaboration skills across diverse teams, combined with the ability to work independently and drive work forward through planning, prioritization, and follow-through.

  
  
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  Comfortable working with a range of tools, including:

  
  
  
  
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    Design & Prototyping: Figma, Photoshop

    
    
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    Collaboration & Mapping: Miro, Zoom

    
    
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    Product Management: Asana, Airtable, Jira

    
    
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    Data & Reporting: Looker Studio, Tableau

    
    
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    Productivity Tools: Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive

    
    
  
  
  
  

Travel: The position requires up to 5% of travel for in-person meetings with staff as well as periodic travel to attend meetings and events as part of its core responsibilities, as well as additional travel as assigned.

Salary:

The salary range for this position takes into account various factors influencing compensation decisions, such as skill sets, experience, training, and other business and organizational requirements. The salary listed within the specified ranges considers relevant experience. Our compensation philosophy at APS aims to maintain salaries at the midpoint of the market. As a result, we typically hire within the target starting range. Exceptional, rare cases may merit reviews above target starting range for specialized or niche skills aligned with strategic operational goals.

Hiring Range:$119,392/year - $162,671/year(USD)

Target Starting Range:$119,392/year - $132,823/year (USD)

Work Environment:

As noted above, APS offers a "Remote First" workplace. Although our Editorial Offices are located on Long Island, you can work from other places in the United States. We are flexible about work hours, but expect responsiveness during the core of the workday, Eastern Time.

This is Us:

Help us achieve our mission of advancing and diffusing the knowledge of physics for the benefit of humanity, promote physics, and serve the broader physics community.

Our Core Values:Our values are our guideposts

• The Scientific Method
• Truth and Integrity
• Diversity, Inclusion, and Respect
• Partnering, Cooperation, and Open Collaboration
• Speaking Out
• Education and Learning

Departmental Values:

The Information Systems departmental values complement and extend the APS Core Values. How we work and how we interact must embody these values which encompass the areas of Customer Outcome Focus; Dedication and Responsibility; Quality and Agility; Curiosity, Open-mindedness, and Innovation; and Teamwork and Collaboration. The values are further described in a separate document, and every Information Systems employee has a responsibility for upholding them.

Amazing 2025Benefit Offerings:

• Flexible schedules and ability to work remotely
• 8% employer-paid retirement contribution
• Investment advisement services: 100% employer paid
• Medical benefits: PPO or HDHP option
• Employer contribution to FSA or HSA account, eligibility based on medical plan enrollment
• Lifestyle Spending benefit up to $2000.00 (USD) - 100% employer paid
• Dental benefits: individual coverage 100% employer paid
• Vision benefits: individual and dependent coverage 100% employer paid
• Basic Life & Accident insurance: employee coverage 100% employer paid
• Supplemental Life & Accident insurance, including spouse & dependent child(ren) coverage
• Disability insurance: employee coverage 100% employer paid
• Voluntary Accident & Critical Illness insurance
• Healthcare, Commuter & Dependent care flexible spending accounts
• Vacation: 15 days annually
• Generous holiday leave: 17 paid days of significance; includes one week closure at the end of December
• Personal leave: 4 days annually
• Volunteer leave: 1 day annually
• Sick leave: 10 days annually
• Bereavement & Compassion leave: 2 -15 days based on loss
• 12 weeks employer-paid family leave
• College tuition reimbursement plan
• Job related seminar & continuing education
• Professional Certification/Recertification 100% employer paid
• Training and professional development; access to LinkedIn Learning on-demand courses
• Employee Assistance Program
• Mindfulness Meditation: live and on-demand classes
• APS does not offer relocation assistance/costs

The American Physical Society is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of American Physical Society not to discriminate or allow the harassment of employees or applicants on the basis of race, religious creed, immigration status, alienage or citizenship, religion, color, ethnicity, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, familial status, protected veteran status, protected military status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, predisposing genetic characteristics, ancestry, domestic violence victim status or any other characteristic protected by law with regard to any employment practices, including recruitment, advertising, job application procedures, hiring, upgrading, training, promotion, transfer, compensation, job assignments, benefits and/or other terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, provided the individual is qualified, with or without reasonable accommodations, to perform the essential functions of the job. This policy applies to all jobs at APS. The American Physical Society is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request a reasonable accommodation, please contact APS Human Resources at hr@aps.org. The "Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal'' poster, prepared by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), provides an overview of several laws that protect you from discrimination on the job, and several rights are afforded to you by these laws. The "Pay Transparency Non Discrimination Provision," prepared by the U.S. Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), provides an overview of several protections implemented to protect individuals working under federal contracts from discrimination when inquiring about or discussing compensation; these protections apply to all employees and applicants. The APS has a "remote first" concept that promotes equal treatment and equal access, independent of physical work location, with a majority of staff working primarily from remote work locations. #LI-SB1

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