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Are you interested in making a world of difference in cancer care?

Cancer strikes more than 10 million people worldwide each year. As the leading medical society representing doctors who care for people with cancer, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality care.

Who we are:
ASCO is a flexible, high-performance membership organization where employees collaborate to support our mission through evidence, care, and impact. Together with Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation, we foster a culture that prioritizes customer-centricity, emphasizes teamwork, and commits to quality. Our culture, ASCO Works - Our Way of Working, has long enabled workplace flexibility and embraced technology to help us achieve balance. To learn what it's like to work at ASCO, click here.

Total Rewards:

At ASCO, we offer a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package. Our compensation philosophy and structure ensure that payremainsmarket-based, tied to performance,and aligned with our core values. The hiring salary range displayed accounts for a broad spectrum of factors, and the final offer will depend on an evaluation of the selected candidate's experience, training, and specialized skill sets.

In addition to base pay, this position is eligible for our robust total rewards package, which includes health, vision, and dental insurance, a 401(k) with generous contribution, health and wellness benefits, family forming benefits, education support program, generous leave, and much more!

Who we are looking for:

ASCO is in search of a high-performing Product Owner, Commerce Strategy & Platforms to serve as the functional architect and operational lead driving the evolution of ASCO's Adobe Commerce (Magento) platform. Reporting into the Portfolio Leader, this role will act as the definitive customer advocate, ensuring our digital experience remains stable, scalable, and intuitive for a broad global audience of B2C members and customers, B2B partners, and Foundation donors.
The successful candidate will be responsible for translating high-level expansion goals into a high-integrity roadmap, ensuring every enhancement leverages native Magento strength to deliver scalable business value.
Remote candidates welcome or at primary location in Alexandria, VA.

Responsibilities

Product Management

• Act as the voice of the customers and prioritize product backlog epics, features and stories based on ASCO's strategic objectives and committed PI objectives. Ensure the delivery squad's output remains aligned with Adobe Commerce best practices, favoring native configurations and standard integrations over custom code where possible.
• Partner closely with business analysts to co-author high-quality epics, features, and stories, and hone the specific requirements and acceptance criteria with architects and engineering leads.
• Maintain absolute data integrity across all work items (epics, features, and stories) by ensuring mandatory metadata, tags, and mapping are complete, enabling real-time accuracy for sprint and enterprise product roadmap reporting.
• Continuously monitor and evaluate product value and quality delivered to customers and proactively champion product improvements by staying current with Magento security patches, core updates, and performance benchmarks
• Collaborate with other product owners and engineering leads to understand and prioritize technical debt across the enterprise, including coordination of dependent tasks across squads

Delivery Planning and Deployment

• Responsible for meeting defined sprint goals; specifically resolving blockers, dependencies or technical and business challenges.
• Actively participate in and prepare for squad ceremonies (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint review, sprint retrospective), and portfolio-level events (quarterly planning, enterprise-level retrospective and innovation ceremonies, system demos).
• Partner with portfolio leaders, product managers, and stakeholders to define ambitious Program Increment (PI) objectives and key results, establishing rigorous baseline metrics to quantitatively and qualitatively track and report on the business value delivered throughout the product lifecycle.
• Partner with the Portfolio Leader to prepare for quarterly planning events, including but not limited to; draft committed objectives, prepare decks, facilitate planning sessions, prepare sprint planning board, and prepare/participate in Inspect and Adapt ceremonies.
• Collect, prepare and maintain the product backlog for quarterly Product Increment Planning, ensuring that all potential work within the Magento ecosystems well defined, understood by engineers, and contains estimated story points needed for discussion during the actual planning.
• Contribute to the portfolio-level product roadmap by drafting and refining idea's in the lean business case format in the Jira product discovery board.
• Contribute to release planning and coordinating with relevant teams, including marketing, to ensure successful product launches and iterations.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent years of experience
• 5 -7 years of progressive experience in product ownership or digital product management.
• 3+ years of experience managing complex e-commerce ecosystems, with a deep understanding of the Adobe Commerce (Magento) platform. Must demonstrate a "native-first" approach, prioritizing core configurations and standard integrations over custom code.
• Proven experience managing complex checkout flows and multiple payment processor configurations.
• Demonstrated success in developing and executing multi-quarter roadmaps, including feature prioritization, dependency mapping across squads, and timeline management.
• Proven experience in SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), Scrum, or Kanban methodologies.
• Have a track record of leading squad ceremonies and partnering with portfolio leaders to define Program Increment (PI) objectives is a plus.
• Exceptional ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical audiences and facilitate working sessions with "strong-willed" or high-level stakeholders to achieve alignment.
• High proficiency with Jira, Jira Product Discovery, and Confluence for maintaining backlog integrity, metadata tagging, and real-time roadmap reporting.
• Familiarity with Adobe Experience Cloud (AEM, Target) and a working knowledge of integrating AI/GenAI features for personalization and search optimization is a plus.

Preferred Education and Experience

• SAFe product owner certification or PO certification from a recognized organization such as Scrum Alliance, Scrum.org a plus, 2+ years of experience delivering successful products to the market
• Familiarity with other methodologies such as Kanban or Lean
• Experience with SAAS, PAAS, mobile apps, back-office systems, hardware, and services and various product categories a plus
• Ability to synthesize business needs and communicate requirements effectively across technical and non-technical audiences

Competencies

• Strong facilitation, negotiation, communication, and presentation skills
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver value in complex environments
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and technical understanding
• Passion for creating best-in-class products and experiences, driving proven customer value
• Ability to lead without direct authority and influence stakeholders to align on the product vision and objectives
• Ability to think critically and solve multifaceted challenges/opportunities, analyze and solve complex problems
• Ability to understand business goals, market trends, and customer needs
• Excellent time management and prioritization skills

ADA/Physical Requirements

• Extended periods seated or standing at a desk
• High use of computers and other office technology equipment

Travel

11-20 days of travel per year, to include general business travel and approximately quarterly visits to ASCO Headquarters.

Compensation

This is an exempt position. The hiring salary range for this position is 142,500-165,000 annualized.

The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum annualized salary ASCO expects to provide for a new hire for the position across the U.S. We thoughtfully determine and design offers based on the selected candidate's relevant experience and qualifications.

Generous Benefits Package:

• Hybrid Work Environment
• Open Leave Policy
• Paid Family Leave
• 13 Paid Holidays per Calendar Year
• Staff Appreciation Days
• 401(k): 7.5% Employer Contribution
• Medical/Dental/Vision
• Employee Assistance Program
• Fertility and Family Forming
• Healthcare Concierge
• Flexible Spending Account(s)
• Healthcare Savings Account
• Disability and Life Insurance

Applications are accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis. The job posting will remain active throughout the candidate application evaluation process.

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. It is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, and religion.