Job Description
Founded in 1986, KPA is a leading provider of Workforce Compliance software and consulting services. We succeed if our clients can send their employees home at night, having not experienced a workplace accident or injury. The combination of software, consulting, and training helps clients identify, remedy, and prevent workplace safety and compliance problems so they can focus on what’s important – their core business.
Help us help keep people safe and businesses working efficiently. Named as one of Built In Colorado’s Best Places to Work for seven years in a row, KPA is made up of talented individuals working together for the greater good. We’re here to help our clients build safe, thriving organizations, and we’re looking for people with a common goal to help us do it.
Position Overview
At KPA, we’re on a mission to help organizations strengthen their safety and compliance culture, protect their people, and reduce risk. As a Product Owner, you’ll play a critical role in turning product strategy into meaningful, customer-loved solutions.
If you thrive at the intersection of customer needs, business strategy, and technical execution — and you love seeing your work ship to real users — we’d love to meet you.
What You’ll Do
Turn Vision into Value
- Partner closely with the Product Manager and UX to understand strategic priorities, customer challenges, and business objectives.
- Translate big-picture strategy into clear, actionable user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Own and continuously refine the product backlog to maximize customer impact and business value.
Be the Voice of the Customer
- Champion the end user throughout the development lifecycle.
- Make thoughtful trade-offs between usability, customer value, and technical feasibility.
- Gather and incorporate feedback from customers, internal stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.
Drive Execution
- Lead backlog refinement and sprint planning sessions to keep engineering focused and aligned.
- Collaborate daily with engineering, UX, and QA to clarify requirements and ensure high-quality solutions.
- Ensure shipped functionality meets acceptance criteria and solves real-world problems.
- Support release readiness and clearly communicate progress, updates, and outcomes.
Continuously Improve
- Use data, feedback, and curiosity to uncover opportunities for improvement.
- Help evolve product and team processes to increase speed, clarity, and quality.
- Bring a mindset of ownership — always looking for ways to elevate both the product and the team.
Qualifications (Required):
- 3+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or similar product delivery role in a SaaS environment.
- Strong working knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies and backlog management best practices.
- Demonstrated ability to write clear, detailed requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Familiarity with EHS, compliance, risk, or regulatory-driven software strongly preferred.
- Excellent communication skills — able to confidently collaborate with engineers, designers, stakeholders, and customers.
- A strong sense of ownership and accountability. You don’t just manage tasks — you drive results.
Compensation:
- Annual Base Salary Range of 110-130k
- Annual Bonus Opportunity of 10%
Physical Requirements:
- Working on a computer, typing, and viewing a screen - all of the time
- Stationary sitting or standing - all of the time
- Hearing and listening - most of the time
- Ability to travel to local, regional, or national events - infrequently
$110,000 - $130,000 a year
Don’t meet every job requirement? At KPA, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply unless they meet every requirement. If you’re excited about the role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we still encourage you to apply! You might just be the right candidate for this or other roles.
As a growing company KPA values its employees by supporting them with a full benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible Spending Accounts, PTO, Paid and Floating Holidays, 401k with Company match and immediate vesting, Company-funded Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Programs, and No-cost Mental Health Benefits.
About KPA
Founded in 1986, KPA is a leading provider of Environment, Health & Safety (EHS), and Workforce Compliance software and consulting services. KPA solutions help clients identify, remedy, and prevent workplace safety and compliance problems across their entire enterprise. The combination of KPA’s software, consulting services, and award-winning training content helps organizations minimize risk so they can focus on what’s important—their core business.
We are passionate about what we do, how we do and why we do it. Our culture is driven by the KPA core values – Integrity, Helpful, Excellence, Agile, Respectful, and Teamwork. Success will be determined by the capabilities, energy and character of the people we bring into our organization and the performance they achieve.
KPA, with headquarters in Colorado and teammates throughout the United Sates, is recognized as one of Colorado’s Best Places to Work to Work by Built In Colorado for 2025, making the list seven years running.
KPA is committed to providing equal opportunity in all of our employment practices, including selection, hiring, promotion, transfer, and compensation, to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, religion, religious dress/grooming, color, ethnicity, sex (including sex stereotyping), sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, creed, uniform service member status, military or veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, breast-feeding and/or pregnancy-related conditions, age, protected medical condition, leave status, physical or mental disability, genetic characteristics, or any other legally-protected status in accordance with the requirements of all federal, state and local laws. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.
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