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Purple Wave has grown from a regional online equipment auction company into a national platform, now operating as a subsidiary of Copart, the global leader in online vehicle auctions. As a Product Owner, you\'ll help shape how thousands of bidders, buyers and sellers experience our marketplace - from listing and bidding to payment and logistics.

This is a hands-on role. You\'ll work with stakeholders to set roadmap priorities and deliver value through iterative releases that directly impact our business. Product serves as the bridge between stakeholders and our technology departmenttranslating business objectives into well-defined product initiatives and ensuring those objectives are met. We build together product, tech, and the business as one team, not handoffs between silos.

Reporting to the Director of Product, you\'ll help guide our tech initiatives to ensure they align with business needs and stated objectives. This will include responsibilities such as:

What to Expect:

• You\'ll own a meaningful slice of a complex marketplace with real autonomy and real accountability for outcomes.
• You\'ll be hands-on from day one writing requirements, talking to users, digging into data, and delivering work that moves the business forward.
• You\'ll need to build relationships quickly; this role only works if your stakeholders trust your judgment and your team understands your decisions.
• You\'ll collaborate regularly with the rest of the Product team sharing best practices, working through dependencies, and contributing to a product org that\'s still maturing.
• You\'ll be expected to immerse yourself in the Purple Wave business not just your product area, but how the whole operation works. The best POs here won\'t just know their backlog; they\'ll understand why their team exists, how their work connects to the broader marketplace, and what it means for the people on both sides of every transaction.
• Expect ambiguity. We\'re evolving our platform and you\'ll help shape what your area becomes.*\ \ \ *

Discovery & Strategy:

• Develop a deep understanding of Purple Wave\'s business, your product area\'s role within it, and the upstream and downstream implications of your team\'s work including how decisions impact our bidders, buyers, sellers, and internal teams.
• Lead product discovery initiatives using data-driven methodologies including AI-assisted tools for research, synthesis, and validation.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify opportunities, define problems, and validate solutions.
• Create and maintain product roadmaps for your product area that are understood across the organization and are aligned with stakeholder input and company strategic intents.
• Develop clear, measurable metrics for your product area.\ \ \

Product Development:

• Own the product backlog, ensuring items are well-defined, prioritized, and aligned with business goals.
• Work closely with designers and engineers to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Partner with the Scrum Master and team in Scrum ceremonies, owning backlog refinement and contributing to daily standups, sprint planning, reviews/demos, and retrospectives.
• Make stakeholder and data-informed decisions about feature development and prioritization and be able to communicate the reasoning behind them.
• Validate ideas quickly using modern prototypes and direct user feedback.

Stakeholder Management:

• Build strong relationships with leadership, technology teams, and business stakeholders communicating effectively and maintaining a clear understanding of their needs and pain points.
• Particip te in periodic business reviews.
• Actively collaborate with fellow Product Owners to share best practices, strengthen shared processes, and work through cross-team dependencies contributing to a product org that\'s stronger than the sum of its parts.\ \ \

Technical Partnership:

• Partner with the technology team to ensure technical feasibility, constraints, and architectural alignment.
• Understand and leverage data analytics to drive product decisions.

Balance technical debt with new feature development