Product Owner, College Pads

Job description

**About StarRez** StarRez is the global leader in student housing software, providing innovative solutions for on and off-campus housing management, resident wellness and experience, and revenue generation. Trusted by 1,400+ clients across 25+ countries, StarRez supports more than 4 million beds annually with its user-friendly, all-in-one platform, delivering seamless experiences for students and administrators. With offices in the United States, Australia, the UK, and India, StarRez blends the robust capabilities of a global organization with the personalized care and service of a trusted partner. **The Role** StarRez is seeking a Product Owner based out of the UK to join the College Pads team. This is not a typical Product Owner role. You’ll help evolve a high visibility, customer-facing platform, partnering closely with cross-functional teams across the UK, US, and India. You’ll translate product direction into high-quality delivery, owning the backlog, driving day-to-day execution, and helping the team make sound trade-offs across customer value, business impact, speed, scope, and risk. You’ll operate in a fast-moving, AI-first environment, and play an active role in validating solutions with customers and stakeholders across markets. **Role Details** - **Work Location:** Remote (UK) - **Travel:** 5% (The percentage of travel is an estimation and may vary based on business needs.) - **Reporting Structure:** This role reports to the Principal Product Manager. **What You’ll Do** - **Own product delivery:** Translate product direction into clear, actionable work and own backlog refinement, sprint planning, day-to-day execution, and release readiness. - **Turn strategy into shipped product:** Partner with Product, Engineering, and Design to break priorities into deliverable increments and make clear trade-offs across customer value, business impact, speed, scope, and risk. - **Validate with customers:** Work with universities, students, and internal stakeholders to test solutions, gather feedback, and incorporate insights into product decisions. - **Drive measurable outcomes:** Keep the team focused on improvements to acquisition, conversion, engagement, and business outcomes rather than simply delivering features. - **Operate AI-first:** Use AI to improve requirements, acceptance criteria, scenario planning, prototyping, research synthesis, and product collaboration. - **Enable effective multi-market delivery:** Work across UK, US, and India teams while accounting for customer, market, release, and communication differences. **Required Qualifications** - 2+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Analyst, or similar role, with strong backlog management, prioritization, and the ability to translate product direction into clear, actionable requirements - Experience working across multiple markets or regions, with an understanding of how customer needs, market differences, release considerations, and stakeholder expectations can influence product delivery - Experience across B2B and B2C products, or within a B2B2C or other multi-sided product environment - Experience working directly with customers or users to validate needs, test solutions, and incorporate feedback into product decisions - Experience partnering closely with Engineering and Design to shape solutions, navigate constraints, and make informed trade-offs - Demonstrated use of AI to improve aspects of the product development lifecycle - Clear and confident communication with internal and external stakeholders - Ability to work effectively across geographically distributed teams **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience with marketplace, listings, PropTech, ILS-style, or other multi-sided products - Understanding of integrations, ecosystem dependencies, and how a marketplace or platform creates value and monetizes - Background in scale-ups or high-growth environments **Reasons to join our Team:** - Opportunity to be a part of a well-established, high-performance company that has been in business for over 30+ years - A supportive team environment with emphasis on learning and development opportunities - Our Promise: You will learn, grow, and be appreciated for your impact and contributions. - Z-Factor: Our most celebrated value, you will work with a team of caring, high-performing, and passionate people who have fun supporting our vision, innovation, and continuous improvement. StarRez is an equal opportunity employer.