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About the job

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.

The Role The driving force behind our success has always been our people. We foster a culture of engineering excellence, customer focus, continuous improvement, and collaboration across product management, engineering, architecture, quality, and delivery teams. Our teams build and evolve enterprise planning, scheduling, optimization, and supply chain solutions for refinery, petrochemical, and energy customers. You will work in an environment grounded in Agile, Lean, and SAFe principles with strong opportunities for professional growth and cross-team collaboration.

We are seeking a Technical Product Owner to guide the development of Oil & Gas, refining, petrochemical, and supply chain software products. Working within a SAFe Agile Release Train (ART), you will translate product strategy, customer workflows, and business priorities into a clear, executable team backlog.

The Product Owner will partner with Product Management, Engineering, Architecture, UX, Quality, Services, and customers to define user stories and acceptance criteria, prioritize value, manage dependencies, and validate delivered capabilities. Prior hands-on software development or programming experience is a strong plus and will enable effective technical collaboration with development teams.

Your Impact

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 needs into features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and non-functional requirements

Execute Product Owner responsibilities within the SAFe cadence , including PI Planning, backlog refinement, iteration planning, daily team collaboration, reviews, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt

Define story value, sequencing, and acceptance criteria; accept completed work based on agreed outcomes and quality expectations

Collaborate with Product Management and customers to understand workflows across planning, scheduling, optimization, inventory, logistics, and distribution

Partner with engineering and architecture to evaluate feasibility, technical trade-offs, integrations, and dependencies

Maintain backlog readiness for upcoming iterations and support feature decomposition, estimation, risk identification, and release planning

Represent the customer and business perspective during development while balancing value, usability, quality, and technical sustainability

Support product demonstrations, release readiness, customer validation, adoption, and issue prioritization

Use delivery, flow, quality, and customer feedback metrics to drive transparency and continuous improvement

What You'll Need

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Mathematics, Operations Research , or a related field

5+ years of relevant experience in technical product ownership, business analysis, product development, or enterprise software delivery

Practical experience as a Product Owner in SAFe or a comparable Agile framework , including backlog ownership and execution through PI and iteration cadences

Experience developing software products for Oil & Gas, refining, petrochemical, manufacturing, or supply chain operations

Working knowledge of refinery and supply chain workflows such as planning, scheduling, optimization, inventory management, logistics, distribution, or demand planning

Strong ability to convert business and customer needs into clear, testable user stories and acceptance criteria

Technical aptitude to collaborate on software architecture, data models, APIs, integrations, cloud platforms, and non-functional requirements

Experience using Agile lifecycle tools such as Azure DevOps (ADO), Jira, or similar

Strong analytical, facilitation, stakeholder management, communication, writing, and presentation skills

Nice to Have

Hands-on programming or software development experience, preferably 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

Key Emphasis: Technical Product Ownership in SAFe

This role requires disciplined execution of the Product Owner responsibilities within the SAFe delivery cadence. Success depends on maintaining a ready and prioritized backlog, defining clear acceptance criteria, enabling fast team decisions, validating business value, and ensuring continuous alignment among Product Management, customers, and engineering. A software development background is highly valued because it strengthens technical decision-making and improves the translation of complex Oil & Gas and supply chain workflows into scalable product capabilities.

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