Product Operations Manager Jobs in Colorado
Product Operations Manager jobs in Colorado are actively sought across the state's technology, aerospace, and healthcare sectors, with demand at levels from associate product operations coordinator through senior director. Denver, Boulder, and Colorado Springs anchor the bulk of hiring, where established employers like Lockheed Martin, Ball Corporation, and Centura Health consistently maintain product operations teams. Cross-functional process design, data systems management, and agile delivery coordination are the sub-areas drawing the most attention from Colorado hiring managers. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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Position Summary
The Senior Product Owner will join the Digital Operations Product Team within the Natural Gas & Natural Gas Liquids Services Operations Excellence and Insights Product Family. As a Senior Product Owner, you will lead the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of digital products that improve operational visibility, reliability, and decision-making across Marathon Petroleum’s NG&NGLs organization. You will partner with Operations, Reliability, Data Analytics and AI, Engineering, and other Digital teams to transform operational data into actionable insights and predictive maintenance solutions. This role is responsible for defining product vision, prioritizing business outcomes, and driving adoption of digital solutions that enhance asset performance, operational efficiency, and reliability. By aligning business needs with modern analytics, industrial data platforms, AI-enabled insights, and operational intelligence technologies, you will enable field and business teams to make more informed decisions and realize measurable value from digital investments. This role will be expected to identify, collect, and evaluate new technology ideas, strategic extensions, or enhancements to existing products and/or services to determine their potential to address customer needs and to achieve goals in revenue growth and market share. Manages product lifecycles, including intent, definition, design, planning, development, prototyping and testing.
Key Responsibilities
- Builds customer and internal facing products with superior user experience across multiple verticals, accountable for an established or moderate complexity product.
- Ensures alignment between teams to build and prioritize product roadmaps, plan releases, and align them with business objectives.
- Collaborates with Agile teams, stakeholders, and business representatives to address and resolve issues that arise during product development.
- Works collaboratively with cross-functional teams, such as Research and Development, User Experience (UX), and business and operations teams, to align on product strategies, gather insights, and plan releases.
- Identifies product-related issues, makes decisions and continuously does trade-off analyses to ensure development stays on track toward deliverable commitments.
- Prioritizes the short-term feature backlog and releases, as well as the long-term product roadmap for products.
- Conducts customer research, product discovery and synthesizes market factors into a cohesive product strategy.
- Collaborates with customers to understand challenges & opportunities.
- Collects quantitative data and takes a data driven approach to evaluate the viability of product initiatives.
- Writes epics and stories to support completion of initiatives; ensures stories clearly communicate the customer and stakeholder needs to meet key business objectives and strategies for the product; promotes Agile approaches to product development across teams/areas.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, related field or equivalent work experience.
- Product Owner certification preferred.
- 5+ years of relevant experience required
- Experience supporting natural gas, natural gas liquids, midstream, pipeline, terminal, or related industrial operations preferred.
- Experience with industrial data platforms, operational intelligence tools, asset performance management solutions, predictive maintenance technologies, or advanced analytics preferred.
- Experience leading digital product strategy, roadmap development, backlog prioritization, and adoption for operational or data-driven products preferred.
- Experience translating business and field-user needs into epics, user stories, measurable outcomes, and product requirements preferred.
- Experience partnering with Operations, Reliability, Engineering, Data Analytics, or AI teams to deliver cross-functional digital solutions preferred.
Skills
- Agile Methodology - Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle, taking incremental steps towards the completion of a project.
- Authentic Communicator - Expresses ideas and information, both verbally and in writing, clearly and credibly. Listens to understand and fosters constructive dialogue.
- Backlog Management - A prioritized list of work for the development team that is derived from the roadmap and its requirements. The most important items are shown at the top of the product backlog, so the team knows what to deliver first.
- Business Acumen - Applies knowledge of MPC’s business, industry and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals. Makes decisions and recommendations clearly linked to MPC’s strategy.
- Decision Making - Ability to know when and what decisions should be made and to make several decisions simultaneously in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
- Industry Product Knowledge - Industry product knowledge refers to a comprehensive understanding of the products and services within a particular industry. It encompasses familiarity with the features, functionalities, applications, and specifications of the products offered by companies operating in that industry. Industry product knowledge is crucial for
- Product Development - The creation, innovation, enhancement or improvement of an existing product, or developing an entirely new kind of product to satisfy the requirements of its end-users.
- Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) - The handling of a good as it moves through the typical stages of its product life: development and introduction, growth, maturity/stability, and decline.
- User Experience (UX) - User Experience (UX) refers to the overall experience that a person has when interacting with a product, service, or system, especially in terms of how easy or pleasing it is to use.
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Location:
Denver, ColoradoJob Requisition ID:
00024840Pay Min/Max:
$106,900.00 - $160,300.00 SalaryGrade:
11Location Address:
1515 Arapahoe St Twr1 Ste 1600Additional locations:
Findlay, Ohio, Houston, Texas, San Antonio, TexasEducation:
Employee Group:
Full timeEmployee Subgroup:
Regular
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What Colorado Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in product operations manager jobs across Colorado.
- Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, operations management, or a related field
- Three or more years of experience in product operations, program management, or a related role
- Demonstrated proficiency with project management tools such as Jira, Asana, or Monday.com
- Experience partnering with cross-functional teams including engineering, product, and go-to-market
- Strong analytical skills with experience translating data into operational decisions
- Familiarity with agile or scaled agile frameworks in a product development environment
Product Operations Manager Jobs in Colorado: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a product operations manager in Colorado?
Most product operations managers in Colorado enter the role through a bachelor's degree in business administration, operations management, systems engineering, or a related discipline. No state-issued license is required for the role in Colorado. Hiring managers in Denver and Boulder typically look for candidates who have worked in program coordination, product analyst, or business operations roles and who can demonstrate experience improving cross-functional workflows and using data to drive decisions.
Which companies hire product operations managers in Colorado?
Companies currently hiring product operations managers in Colorado include lululemon, HP, and Google, per current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Colorado's technology corridor along the Denver-Boulder axis and its aerospace and defense industry around Colorado Springs and Broomfield make the state a consistent source of product operations openings.
Which Colorado cities have the most product operations manager jobs?
Denver, Boulder, and Arvada have the most product operations manager openings in Colorado. Denver drives volume as the state's commercial and technology hub, while Boulder's concentration of software and life-sciences companies produces steady demand, and Colorado Springs adds openings tied to its defense contractors and growing technology sector.
Are there remote product operations manager jobs in Colorado?
Yes, and more than most fields, because product operations work centers on coordination, data analysis, and process design that translates well to distributed teams. About 60% of product operations manager openings tied to Colorado are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting how widely Colorado technology employers have adopted flexible arrangements. Roles focused on tooling, documentation, and cross-functional alignment are the most likely to be fully remote.
How can I get hired as a product operations manager in Colorado with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is moving into a product operations coordinator or business operations analyst role first, then growing into the manager title. Colorado technology and aerospace employers like those in the Denver Tech Center and the Boulder startup ecosystem regularly hire into associate-level operations and program support positions that build the skills needed for the senior role. A project management certificate, hands-on experience with tools like Jira or Salesforce, and a portfolio showing a documented process improvement give candidates a measurable edge when applying without formal product operations experience.
Where can I find and apply to product operations manager jobs in Colorado?
You can find and apply to product operations manager jobs in Colorado on Migrate Mate, which lists current Colorado openings. Search the listings, find the roles that fit your background and location, and apply directly to the ones that match.
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