Product Owner

About Inhabit

Inhabit operates a unique collective of tech-forward companies serving the residential and short-term rental industries. We deliver best-in-class software solutions and services that empower property managers, investors, and communities through innovation, collaboration, and deep industry expertise. Come help build the company you want to Inhabit. To learn more, visit .

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Product Owner to define, prioritize, and manage the product backlog, ensuring development efforts align with business objectives and customer needs. The Product Owner will serve as a key liaison between stakeholders, design, development, QA, support, sales, marketing, and subject matter experts to translate strategic goals and customer requirements into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and actionable work for development teams. This role is responsible for helping deliver high-quality features and enhancements through agile execution, continuous collaboration, and strong ownership of the product lifecycle. The ideal candidate will bring a strong product background, an innovation mindset, the ability to drive change in a matrixed environment, and experience working with both B2B and B2C software products. This person should be comfortable balancing customer needs, business priorities, technical feasibility, and delivery timelines while communicating effectively across cross-functional teams.

Inhabit is an AI-driven, AI-first organization. Ideal candidates are comfortable using AI tools to improve efficiency, accelerate discovery and analysis, document requirements, draft user stories and acceptance criteria, prototype ideas, summarize feedback, and support faster, higher-quality decision-making.

Industry experience in multifamily property management software is a plus. This role is within ResMan’s Affordable Product Team; knowledge of Federal LIHTC regulations and Tax Credit state agency requirements is highly desirable.

What You’ll Do (Functions & Responsibilities)

• Own, manage, prioritize, refine, and maintain the product backlog to ensure the team works on the highest-value items.
• Translate product strategy, customer needs, business requirements, and stakeholder input into well-defined user stories, acceptance criteria, and actionable development tasks.
• Collaborate with engineering throughout sprint planning, daily standups, backlog grooming, sprint reviews, retrospectives, demos, and release preparation.
• Clarify requirements, answer development questions, remove ambiguity, and make timely decisions to support delivery progress.
• Partner with Training, Support, SMEs, Sales, and Marketing to support knowledge transfer, customer readiness, internal enablement, release communications, webinars, and go-to-market execution.
• Validate completed work against acceptance criteria, customer expectations, usability standards, and product goals.
• Communicate delivery status, risks, dependencies, trade-offs, and bottlenecks to stakeholders and leadership.
• Continuously seek opportunities to improve product quality, customer experience, operational efficiency, and business value.