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Coursedog

Product Owner, Integrations

🇺🇸 Remote - US

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $110K - $130K

💻 Product Development

🗓️ November 22nd, 2025

SaaS

Edtech.com's Summary

Coursedog is hiring a Product Owner, Integrations to drive the development and execution of integration solutions that connect core university systems. The role involves collaborating with Product Managers and engineering to translate strategic goals into detailed requirements, managing the backlog, and ensuring seamless integration delivery for higher education institutions.

Highlights
  • Manage and prioritize integration product backlog in alignment with roadmap priorities.
  • Translate high-level initiatives into detailed user stories and acceptance criteria.
  • Ensure timely delivery of reliable and valuable integration features with engineering and design teams.
  • Provide clear integration documentation and deployment guidance to Customer Success teams.
  • Engage with customers and internal stakeholders to gather feedback and improve integration solutions.
  • Experience with Student Information Systems such as Ellucian Banner, Colleague, Ethos Integrations, Oracle PeopleSoft, and Workday Student.
  • 1 to 3 years of Product Owner experience in Agile environments, with a focus on backlog management and software delivery.
  • Strong skills in writing technical requirements for APIs and system integrations.
  • Salary range of $110,000 to $130,000 per year.
  • Extensive benefits including healthcare, dental, vision, retirement plan with employer match, unlimited paid time off, equity participation, and paid parental leave.

Product Owner, Integrations Full Description

Coursedog is rapidly scaling and shaping the future of academic operations software. We’re looking for a driven, execution-oriented Product Owner, Integrations to join our growing Product team. This role offers a unique opportunity to directly impact how universities integrate their core systems, ensuring a seamless data flow across the higher education ecosystem.

As a Product Owner, Integrations, you will report to the Director of Integrations and serve as a critical link between strategy and execution. You’ll collaborate closely with Product Managers to understand initiative goals and strategic product priorities, then translate those into detailed integration requirements. You’ll partner with the Integrations Engineering team to design and build solutions and enable Customer Success to deploy them effectively at institutions.
Key Responsibilities
Product Backlog Management & Execution
  • Collaborate closely with Product Managers to understand initiative goals and strategic product priorities.
  • Translate high-level integration initiatives into detailed user stories and wiring requirements, with clear and testable acceptance criteria, in partnership with engineering.
  • Collaborate with your Product Manager to manage, refine, and prioritize the integrations backlog for one or more agile development teams, ensuring alignment with roadmap priorities and PDLC standards.
  • Partner with engineering and design to ensure timely delivery of integrations and features, with a focus on accuracy, reliability, and institutional value.
  • Represent the customer and product voice in team ceremonies, ensuring higher education workflows are at the forefront of integration design.
Requirements Clarification & Team Enablement
  • Ensure engineering teams understand both the “what” and “why” of each integration, maximizing execution efficiency.
  • Define and uphold the “Definition of Done” for integration User Stories, ensuring quality, testability, and readiness for delivery.
Roadmap Execution & Continuous Improvement
  • Support the execution of the integrations roadmap, ensuring Epics and Stories are delivered on time and to standard.
  • Monitor product and integration health post-release, iterating on coverage, error rates, and institutional feedback.
Implementation & Value Maximization
  • Enable Customer Success teams by providing integration documentation, requirements clarity, and deployment guidance.
  • Engage directly with customers and internal stakeholders to gather integration feedback and ensure solutions meet institutional needs.
  • Step in flexibly to support implementations, sales enablement, or feature demos when deeper integration expertise is required.
Internal Stakeholder Collaboration
  • Communicate regularly with internal stakeholders (Customer Success, Sales, Support) regarding integration features, releases, and roadmaps.
  • Capture insights from institutional and internal feedback loops to inform backlog refinement and roadmap evolution.

Skills Knowledge and Expertise
  • Higher Education Integrations Expertise: Direct experience working with one or more Student Information Systems (SIS):
    • Ellucian Banner
    • Ellucian Colleague
    • Ellucian Ethos Integrations
    • Oracle PeopleSoft
    • Workday Student
  • Product Ownership Proficiency: 1–3 years as a Product Owner (or hybrid PO/BA) in an Agile environment, with a proven track record of backlog ownership and delivering software.
  • Integration Requirements Writing: Experience authoring detailed technical requirements for APIs, database integrations, and system-to-system wiring.
  • Agile Execution: Deep understanding of Agile methodologies (backlog refinement, story writing, acceptance criteria definition, sprint execution).
  • Collaboration & Communication: Strong ability to communicate across Product, Engineering, Customer Success, and institutional stakeholders.
  • Analytical & Problem-Solving: Data-driven mindset with the ability to break down complex workflows and design clear integration solutions.
  • EdTech Domain Aptitude: Experience with SaaS platforms in higher education is required. Understanding of university operational workflows a plus.

Working at Coursedog
Healthcare, Dental & Vision
We follow a fixed contribution model to ensure equity and transparency. Each employee receives the same annual dollar amount to allocate toward their medical, dental, and vision coverage. This empowers you to select the plan that best meets your needs — whether it’s a base-level plan or a more comprehensive option.

Depending on the selected coverage level, the company covers:
  • Employee-only coverage: 99% to 55% of monthly premiums
  • Employee + dependents: 77% to 43% of monthly premiums
We proudly partner with Aetna and Guardian, and offer access to best-in-class wellness perks including:
  • Spring Health (mental health support)
  • XP Health (vision benefits)
  • Carrot Fertility (family planning)
  • One Medical (primary care)
We also support pre-tax savings through Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA).

Retirement Planning
To support long-term financial health, we offer a 401(k) plan from day one of employment.
Beginning January 1, 2026, we’ll provide a 4% employer match on your annual salary (subject to federal limits) for employees contributing to a tax-advantaged retirement account.

Paid Time Off

We trust our employees to manage their time responsibly. That’s why we offer an unlimited Paid Time Off policy — because flexibility and balance are critical for sustained excellence and personal well-being.

Remote-First Since Inception

We were built for distributed work. Our culture emphasizes flexibility over rigidity, outcomes over hours, and transparency over gatekeeping. We are committed to being a remote-first organization indefinitely, empowering you to work where and how you thrive best.

Equity
As a valued contributor to our collective success, you’ll participate in the upside. All employees are granted equity in the company, with vesting aligned to your role and tenure. Equity grants are reviewed and adjusted with promotions to reflect your evolving impact.

Paid Parental Leave
We proudly support working parents with industry-leading benefits.
  • Primary caregivers are eligible for 12 weeks of paid leave
  • Secondary caregivers receive 6 weeks of paid leave
This time is fully paid and available to all eligible employees regardless of gender or family structure.