Associate Product Owner

Summary

Join Aperia Solutions, a leader in SaaS solutions for the Payments and Compliance industries. Aperia is a Texas-based fintech and managed consultancy firm that creates custom SaaS applications and other software-based solutions for the payments, banking, and processing industry. Founded in 1999, Aperia offers business intelligence, risk management, compliance, and customer intelligence platforms. With offices in Dallas, Washington DC, and Vietnam, Aperia is a fast-paced, global organization that strives to improve efficiency in compliance, risk, and customer service operations. Aperia’s clients include banks, processors, payment facilitators, merchant service providers, independent sales organizations, and government entities. A career at Aperia promises a great challenge, culture, and opportunities to forge your own path. 

Job Description

We’re looking for an Associate Product Owner to support the Product Owner in collaborating closely with client, translating product direction into clear, actionable work for our software delivery teams. You’ll help define requirements, write user stories, maintain a healthy backlog, and assist with sprint execution in an Agile environment.

This role is ideal for someone early in their product/BA career who is structured, detail-oriented, and eager to learn how to build and ship SaaS products in the Payments and Compliance space.

Core Responsibilities

• Take ownership of assigned features from requirement clarification through development, testing, and production release, with guidance from Product Owner or Product Manager as needed.
• Translate product needs into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and development-ready tasks.
• Support backlog management: organize items, keep statuses updated, track dependencies, and prepare work for refinement/planning.
• Partner with developers and QA to clarify requirements, answer questions, and reduce rework through better definition upfront.
• Collaborate with the UI/UX team to translate business requirements and user needs into clear, implementable mockups and user flows, ensuring designs align with functional requirements and technical feasibility.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies (refinement, planning, review, retro); capture decisions and follow up on action items.
• Produce clear and precise written artifacts, including requirements, acceptance criteria, Jira documentation, investigation notes, and communication with stakeholders and engineering team.
• Assist with release execution tasks such as scope confirmation, UAT coordination support, and release notes drafting.
• Communicate effectively with Vietnam and US stakeholders to gather inputs, confirm understanding, and keep work moving.

Technical Skills