Senior Product Owner, Midstream Logistics

Help shape the digital future of Marathon Petroleum's Midstream operations. As a Senior Product Owner on the Midstream Logistics Digital IT team, you'll play a pivotal role in driving technology strategy and delivering innovative digital solutions that support Marine, Rail, and Trucking operations, and connected business segments across the enterprise. In this highly collaborative role, you'll partner with business leaders, operations teams, vendors, and technology professionals to identify opportunities, define product vision, and deliver capabilities that improve efficiency, increase visibility, strengthen compliance, and enable data-driven decision making.

You will lead products throughout their lifecycle, from strategy and ideation through design, development, implementation, and continuous improvement. Leveraging design thinking principles and customer-centered practices, you'll translate business challenges into valuable technology solutions, prioritize investments, and guide cross-functional teams in delivering outcomes that create measurable business value. Your work will directly contribute to the safe, reliable, and efficient movement of energy and products across Marathon Petroleum's transportation network.

• Builds customer and internal-facing products with superior user experience across multiple verticals, accountable for an established or moderate complexity product.
• Ensures alignment between teams to prioritize product roadmaps, plan releases, and align them with business objectives.
• Collaborates with Agile teams, stakeholders, and business representatives to address and resolve issues that arise during product development.
• Works collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including R&D, UX, and business and operations teams, to align product strategies, gather insights, and plan releases.
• Identifies product-related issues, makes decisions, and continuously does trade-off analyses to ensure development stays on track toward deliverable commitments.
• Prioritizes the short-term feature backlog and releases, as well as the long-term product roadmap for products.
• Conducts customer research, and product discovery and synthesizes market factors into a cohesive product strategy.
• Collaborates with customers to understand challenges & opportunities.
• Collects quantitative data and takes a data-driven approach to evaluate the viability of product initiatives.
• Writes epics and stories to support completion of initiatives; ensures stories clearly communicate the customer and stakeholder needs to meet key business objectives and strategies for the product; promotes Agile approaches to product development across teams/areas.

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, related field or equivalent work experience.
• Product Owner certification preferred.
• 5+ years of relevant product owner experience required.
• Experience partnering with logistics and transportation business stakeholders, with demonstrated knowledge of marine, rail, trucking, and/or supply chain operations preferred.
• Experience translating operational business processes and customer needs into product strategy, roadmaps, and prioritized backlogs.
• Proven experience leading multidisciplinary teams and driving digital innovation across business and technology functions.

• Agile Methodology – Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle, taking incremental steps towards the completion of a project.
• Authentic Communicator – Expresses ideas and information, both verbally and in writing, clearly and credibly. Listens to understand and fosters constructive dialogue.
• Backlog Management - A prioritized list of work for the development team that is derived from the roadmap and its requirements. The most important items are shown at the top of the product backlog so the team knows what to deliver first.
• Business Acumen – Applies knowledge of MPC’s business, industry and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals. Makes decisions and recommendations clearly linked to MPC’s strategy.
• Decision Making – Ability to know when and what decisions should be made and to make several decisions simultaneously in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Industry Product Knowledge – Industry product knowledge refers to a comprehensive understanding of the products and services within a particular industry. It encompasses familiarity with the features, functionalities, applications, and specifications of the products offered by companies operating in that industry. Industry product knowledge is crucial for professionals working in sales, marketing, customer service, product development, and various other roles within a company. It enables individuals to effectively communicate the value propositions of products, address customer inquiries, identify market trends, make informed business decisions, and contribute to the development and improvement of products and services within the industry. This knowledge often requires staying updated with the latest advancements, technologies, and market dynamics within the specific industry domain.
• Product Development – The creation, innovation, enhancement, or improvement of an existing product, or developing an entirely new kind of product to satisfy the requirements of its end-users.
• Product Lifecycle Management - The handling of a good as it moves through the typical stages of its product life: development and introduction, growth, maturity/stability, and decline.
• User Experience (UX) – User Experience (UX) refers to the overall experience that a person has when interacting with a product, service, or system, especially in terms of how easy or pleasing it is to use.