Jira Product Owner

🇺🇸 Natick, MA

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $105K - $163K

💻 Information Technology

🗓️ January 7th, 2026

Edtech.com's Summary

MathWorks is hiring a Jira Product Owner to lead the strategic direction and governance of the Jira platform. The role involves managing the Jira Cloud migration, optimizing the platform, and engaging stakeholders to ensure the system meets business needs effectively.

Highlights

Lead Jira Cloud migration and validate configurations with program manager, consultants, and development team.
Develop and execute Jira product roadmap in collaboration with stakeholders and Atlassian.
Manage backlog health, sprint planning, and sprint ceremonies including reviews and retrospectives.
Engage with Atlassian and vendor partners to advocate for platform features and manage contract renewals.
Configure Jira projects, workflows, and provide hands-on troubleshooting and end user support.
Proficiency with Jira and experience managing large-scale Jira environments (5,000+ users).
Strong communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
Bachelor's degree with 6 years of relevant experience or Master's degree with 3 years, or equivalent experience.
Translate business requirements into technical backlog items and actionable user stories.
Salary range between $105,100 and $162,900.

Jira Product Owner Full Description

Jira Product Owner

Team: Information Technology
Location: US-MA-Natick
Salary Range: $105,100 - $162,900

Job Summary

We are seeking a Jira Product Owner to lead the strategic direction and governance of our Jira platform. This role will play a critical part in our migration from Jira Data Center to Jira Cloud and will continue to drive platform optimization and stakeholder engagement post-migration to ensure Jira delivers maximum business value.

Responsibilities

Lead Jira Cloud migration effort
- Collaborate with the program manager, consultant, and development team to support migration activities and validate configurations.
- Communicate with stakeholders and ensure alignment with business needs
Create and execute Jira roadmap
- Collaborate with stakeholders, development teams, and Atlassian to develop product roadmap. Communicate roadmap progress and updates as business needs evolve
- Regularly engage with users. Write stories, collect and prioritize feedback, and manage expectations
- Manage backlog health, plan sprints, lead sprint reviews, refinement and retrospectives
Vendor management
- Engage Atlassian frequently and advocate for roadmap inclusions and bring the latest features/direction to MathWorks
- Network with Jira community, leverage these relationships to solve problems
- Act as primary liaison to add-on vendors and facilitate contract renewals
Configuration & Support
- Configure Jira projects, workflows, transitions, screens, etc…
- Provide hands-on troubleshooting and support for end user community

Minimum Qualifications

A bachelor's degree and 6 years of professional work experience (or a master's degree and 3 years of professional work experience, or equivalent experience) is required.
Proficiency with JIRA

Additional Qualifications

Experience managing large-scale Jira environments (5,000+ users).
Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements and actionable backlog items.

Original Job Description

Jira Product Owner

Team: Information Technology
Location: US-MA-Natick
Salary Range: $105,100 - $162,900

Job Summary

Responsibilities

Lead Jira Cloud migration effort
- Collaborate with the program manager, consultant, and development team to support migration activities and validate configurations.
- Communicate with stakeholders and ensure alignment with business needs
Create and execute Jira roadmap
- Collaborate with stakeholders, development teams, and Atlassian to develop product roadmap. Communicate roadmap progress and updates as business needs evolve
- Regularly engage with users. Write stories, collect and prioritize feedback, and manage expectations
- Manage backlog health, plan sprints, lead sprint reviews, refinement and retrospectives
Vendor management
- Engage Atlassian frequently and advocate for roadmap inclusions and bring the latest features/direction to MathWorks
- Network with Jira community, leverage these relationships to solve problems
- Act as primary liaison to add-on vendors and facilitate contract renewals
Configuration & Support
- Configure Jira projects, workflows, transitions, screens, etc…
- Provide hands-on troubleshooting and support for end user community

Minimum Qualifications

A bachelor's degree and 6 years of professional work experience (or a master's degree and 3 years of professional work experience, or equivalent experience) is required.
Proficiency with JIRA

Additional Qualifications

Experience managing large-scale Jira environments (5,000+ users).
Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements and actionable backlog items.