Product Owner

Job title: Product Owner - Circle K Fuel & QSR Domain
Role is hybrid (3 days/wk)
Client address: Tempe, Arizona 85284

Years of experience required: 12+
Role Purpose: Own product vision, priorities, and business outcomes for AI-led use cases across Circle K fuel/forecourt and QSR restaurant operations, delivered on Google Cloud.

Key Responsibilities
· Translate fuel pump, forecourt, convenience retail, and QSR operational challenges into prioritized AI/GenAI use cases, epics, features, and user stories.
· Bring domain understanding across fuel/POS/payment journeys, pricing and promotions, store operations, food service, inventory, order management, and customer experience.
· Identify opportunities where Gemini/Vertex AI-powered assistants, agents, automation, and intelligent workflows can improve business outcomes.
· Own and prioritize the product backlog based on value, feasibility, risk, customer/employee impact, and adoption.
· Define business KPIs, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes for AI use cases.
· Partner with Circle K business stakeholders, Google/GCP teams, AI architects, engineers, and data teams through discovery, MVP, pilot, and scale.
· Lead sprint reviews and business demos, driving adoption and value realization.

Preferred Responsibilities:
Product ownership experience in convenience retail, fuel retail, QSR, or adjacent retail domains; familiarity with GenAI/agentic AI and Google Cloud solutions desirable