Product Owner

About this role

Now more than ever, our world needs mental health professionals. Day in and day out, they’re doing their best to provide exceptional care to an increasing number of patients. But, they’re working with generic or simplistic tools that limit their potential and growth. We want to change all that – by giving behavioral health organizations everything they need to thrive.


Valant is an established market-leading, software-as-a-service organization serving the unique needs of the behavioral healthcare industry. Our purpose is to make our world a mentally healthier place and we’re seeking enthusiastic, passionate individuals to join us as we transform the industry! If that sounds like you, we’d like to hear from you.


What You’ll Do


As a Product Owner at Valant, you are the engine that keeps your engineering squad moving at full speed. This role was purpose-built to separate delivery execution from product strategy — giving engineers a dedicated product partner so they always have high-quality, ready-to-build work, and freeing Product Managers to focus on customer research, roadmap, and market intelligence.


You own three critical functions simultaneously: building and maintaining a deep, well-groomed backlog so engineering always has high-quality work ready; leading the agile ceremonies that keep your squad aligned and unblocked; and serving as the embedded execution partner who ensures that what gets built precisely matches what was intended. You receive high-level feature definitions and handoff packages from a Product Manager — and you are responsible for everything that happens from that point through story completion and acceptance testing.


You'll also work with cutting-edge AI tools as part of your daily workflow. Valant uses Replit prototypes so you can interact with a working version of a feature before writing a single story, and Codelligence — a custom tool that queries our codebase — so you can answer "how does it work today" questio...