Own and evolve UL Solutions' pricing engine: define vision and roadmap, translate business needs into user stories, collaborate with engineering and design, manage backlog and releases, facilitate sprints and demos, produce technical collateral, and drive adoption of data-driven pricing practices across the organization.
JOB DESCRIPTION
This role is hybrid, 3 days a week in office to the Northbrook or Chicago, IL UL Solutions office.
This role offers a unique opportunity to shape how pricing decisions are made across UL Solutions. As the Product Owner, you will own the enhancement of UL Solutions' pricing engine, a critical platform that enables scalable, data-driven pricing decisions across the enterprise.
This role exists to define, govern, and continuously evolve the pricing engine, acting as the single accountable owner for the platform, its roadmap, and the pricing rules, data, and capabilities that support commercial teams globally.
You will directly influence how pricing is executed at scale, with measurable impact on revenue growth, margin performance, pricing consistency, operational efficiency, and the adoption of value-based pricing practices across the organization.
RESPONSIBILITIES
QUALIFICATIONS
What you'll experience working for ULS
UL Solutions has been pioneering change since 1894 and we're still leading the way. From day one, we've blazed a trail protecting the planet and everyone on it. Our teams have influenced billions of products, plus services, software offerings and more. We break things, burn things and blow things up. All in the name of safety science.
That's where you come in - because none of it could happen without you. It takes passion to protect people, problem-solving to safeguard personal data and conviction to make the world a more sustainable place. It takes bold ideas and brilliant minds to build a better world for future generations across the globe.
This is more than a job. It's a calling. A passion to use our expertise and play our part in creating a more secure, sustainable world today - and tomorrow. As a member of our safety science community, you'll use your ideas, your energy and your ambition to innovate, challenge and ultimately, help create a safer world.
Everyone here is unique. But we're also a global community, working together to help create a safer world. Join UL Solutions and you can connect with the brightest minds in the business, all bringing their distinct perspectives and diverse backgrounds together to deliver real change.
Empowering our customers to keep the world safe means thinking ahead. It means investing in training and empowering our people to learn and innovate. At UL Solutions, we help build a better future - one where everyone benefits.
Join UL Solutions to be at the center of safety. To learn more about us and the work we do, visit UL.com
Total Rewards: We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. The estimated salary range for this position is $100,000 to $127,000 USD and is based on multiple factors, including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, as well as other factors. This position is eligible for annual bonus compensation with a target payout of 10% of the base salary. This position also provides health benefits such as medical, dental and vision; wellness benefits such as mental and financial health; and retirement savings (401K) commensurate with the standard rewards offered in each individual location or country. We also provide full-time employees with paid time off including vacation (15 days), holiday and personal days (totaling 12 days) and sick time off (72 hours).
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ABOUT US
A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS) transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 110 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers' product innovation and business growth. The UL Mark serves as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers' products and reflects an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.
This role is hybrid, 3 days a week in office to the Northbrook or Chicago, IL UL Solutions office.
This role offers a unique opportunity to shape how pricing decisions are made across UL Solutions. As the Product Owner, you will own the enhancement of UL Solutions' pricing engine, a critical platform that enables scalable, data-driven pricing decisions across the enterprise.
This role exists to define, govern, and continuously evolve the pricing engine, acting as the single accountable owner for the platform, its roadmap, and the pricing rules, data, and capabilities that support commercial teams globally.
You will directly influence how pricing is executed at scale, with measurable impact on revenue growth, margin performance, pricing consistency, operational efficiency, and the adoption of value-based pricing practices across the organization.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Guide the development team by defining the vision, value and context of "why" behind product capabilities/features and help to plan "how" to best deliver them
- Work closely with the Pricing Director and software engineering, following Agile principles, to help define requirements/user stories, incorporate feature requests, estimate development effort and prioritize/groom backlog items
- Collaborate with the Pricing Director on roadmap management and release planning.
- Work with UI/UX/Designers to generate wireframes and prototypes to support user stories and product demonstrations
- Facilitate sprint planning and work alongside the Scrum Master to ensure that commitments are met and any re-prioritization decisions are fully informed
- Support the development team throughout the development cycle by elaborating user stories and advising on priorities. Keep track of industry best practices and continuously suggest process efficiencies for the development team.
- Organize the end-of-sprint demos to communicate to internal stakeholders the output of each sprint. Validate whether features have been completed and decide when they will be released
- Support development of the technical product collateral, such as release notes and online help content
- Support an efficient cross-functional matrix structure to enable effective product development lifecycle
- Execute a robust set of processes, focused on product development, release management and product support
- Leverage a standard set of product management and software development tools
QUALIFICATIONS
- Facilitation skills - ability to lead small to medium groups of internal stakeholders towards desired outcomes in order to meet business objectives
- Strong communication and presentation (PowerPoint) skills
- Product management tools - product design (e.g. Invision, Zeplin), development task management (e.g. Jira, Azure DevOps), documentation and knowledge (e.g. Confluence, SharePoint), collaboration (e.g. Microsoft Teams, Slack), roadmap and portfolio management (e.g. Aha!, Daptiv)
- Scrum/Agile training and/or certification is highly preferred
- Formal training and/or certification in Product Management is a plus
- University Degree (Equivalent to Bachelor's degree) in Computer Science, Business, or a related discipline
- 5 years or more of related discipline experience or demonstrated competency
- Working with remote teams is highly preferred
What you'll experience working for ULS
UL Solutions has been pioneering change since 1894 and we're still leading the way. From day one, we've blazed a trail protecting the planet and everyone on it. Our teams have influenced billions of products, plus services, software offerings and more. We break things, burn things and blow things up. All in the name of safety science.
That's where you come in - because none of it could happen without you. It takes passion to protect people, problem-solving to safeguard personal data and conviction to make the world a more sustainable place. It takes bold ideas and brilliant minds to build a better world for future generations across the globe.
This is more than a job. It's a calling. A passion to use our expertise and play our part in creating a more secure, sustainable world today - and tomorrow. As a member of our safety science community, you'll use your ideas, your energy and your ambition to innovate, challenge and ultimately, help create a safer world.
Everyone here is unique. But we're also a global community, working together to help create a safer world. Join UL Solutions and you can connect with the brightest minds in the business, all bringing their distinct perspectives and diverse backgrounds together to deliver real change.
Empowering our customers to keep the world safe means thinking ahead. It means investing in training and empowering our people to learn and innovate. At UL Solutions, we help build a better future - one where everyone benefits.
Join UL Solutions to be at the center of safety. To learn more about us and the work we do, visit UL.com
Total Rewards: We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. The estimated salary range for this position is $100,000 to $127,000 USD and is based on multiple factors, including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, as well as other factors. This position is eligible for annual bonus compensation with a target payout of 10% of the base salary. This position also provides health benefits such as medical, dental and vision; wellness benefits such as mental and financial health; and retirement savings (401K) commensurate with the standard rewards offered in each individual location or country. We also provide full-time employees with paid time off including vacation (15 days), holiday and personal days (totaling 12 days) and sick time off (72 hours).
#LI-SG2
#LI-Hybrid
ABOUT US
A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS) transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 110 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers' product innovation and business growth. The UL Mark serves as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers' products and reflects an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.
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