Product Owner

E-COMMERCE Product Owner

Vaan, A Verndale Company, is a brand and commerce agency built for the DTC era. We partner with category-defining, digitally native brands to design, build, and optimize high-performing commerce experiences where brand and conversion are inseparable. Our approach—Brand Conversion Design—blends world-class creative, rigorous UX, and deep Shopify Plus expertise to turn storytelling into growth at scale. As part of Verndale, we bring enterprise-grade thinking with the speed, taste, and performance mindset of a modern DTC growth partner.

The Role:

We are looking for an E-commerce Product Owner to join our team and play a crucial role in the delivery and optimization of e-commerce web experiences for our clients. As an E-commerce Product Owner, you will be responsible for the success of your projects, with a focus on efficiency, timeline, and budget. You will work closely with our development team, designers, strategists, solutions architects, and stakeholders to ensure that the product backlog is well-defined, prioritized to maximize value and ROI, and executed in a timely fashion with the highest standards of quality.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 3 years of experience as a Product Owner or Project Manager

• Extremely detailed oriented and organized

• Experience with e-commerce platforms and technologies, Shopify a plus

• Strong knowledge of managing website project builds and ongoing retainers

• Exceptional communication and leadership skills, including leading meetings and regularly speaking with clients as the face of the agency

• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to work proactively and independently

• Advanced or Native-level English proficiency (both spoken and written)

Preferred (not required) Qualifications:

• Shopify knowledge

• Experience with web design and development. 

• Knowledge of site optimization best practices.

• Familiarity with Jira

Responsibilities:

• Act as the main point of contact and Product Owner for all stakeholders, including clients and internal team members

• Manage the budget and timeline of the project and regularly report hours to internal and external stakeholders

• Lead and organize a squad of developers who will work with you on 4-7 projects at one time

• Write detailed tickets with acceptance criteria for a team of developers and

Recruitment process after your application:

1. HR interview

2. Tech interview

3. Cultural interview

4. Offer letter

Other things you should know: 

• This is a full-time long-term position

• Salary commensurate with experience

• Although we are accepting applications from candidates located anywhere in the world, this position will require that the candidate is able to accommodate some remote internal team and client-facing meetings in North American/European time zones.

Benefits after the third month of employment: 

• Once  per year, the entire team meets in one place (all the costs will be covered by the company)

• 500 usd for equipment 

• 20 PTOs

• 10 holidays from your country of residence (you choose which one) 

• Bonus depending on the performance of the company