Product Owner Jobs in San Diego, CA
Product Owner jobs in San Diego are in strong demand, concentrated in Sorrento Valley, Downtown's Core-Columbia district, and Torrey Pines across defense technology, biotech, and enterprise software companies. Employers hiring right now include Intuit, Qualcomm, and ServiceNow. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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Job Description
What you get to do in this role:
- Own the roadmap, vision and requirements for conversational AI features.
- Turn customer feedback into product improvements and roadmap priorities.
- Guide product strategy that sets us up for success as we look to grow to $10B+ in revenue
- Communicate product priorities and build consensus
- Assume leadership responsibilities as an accountable owner who is committed to the outcome regardless of the role or organizational boundaries
- Work with multiple teams to guide projects through development and bring high-quality products to life
- Integrate usability studies, research and market intelligence into product requirements to enhance user satisfaction
- Communicate complex problems into easily understood requirements and provide solutions
- Develop multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the needs of different audiences
- Guide the promoting of efforts across different groups of team members, along with the ability to influence inside and outside of your team
- Create clear PRDs, epics, stories, acceptance criteria, and success metrics.
Steer AI features including:
- Disambiguation and clarification
- AI Processing and progress messages
- Document and multimodal experiences
- Slot filling and information collection
- Feedback intelligence
- Fallback and error experiences
- Identify and prioritize feature gaps across AI orchestrators.
- Partner with engineering and design to deliver effective end-to-end customer experience.
- Define testing, telemetry, quality, and performance requirements.
- Support strategic customers, pilots, go-lives, and product escalations.
- Coordinate dependencies and guidance across multiple teams
Qualifications
To be successful in this role you have:
- Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-derived insights, or exploring AI's potential impact on the function or industry.
- 12+ years of software or enterprise product management experience
- Strong prioritization skills and the discipline to focus on high impact activities
- Experience defining and capturing product requirements and transforming them into a product roadmap
- Deep curiosity about customer needs and a track record in building customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions
- Strong understanding of conversational AI, generative AI, agentic systems, or related technologies.
- Experience being an enterprise customer or supporting enterprise customers through pilots, UAT, go-live, stabilization, or critical escalations.
- Experience designing evaluation datasets, conducting comparative AI evaluations, and interpreting model-quality results.
- Understanding of retrieval, knowledge bases, citations, prompt engineering, context engineering, and conversational orchestration.
- Familiarity with design and collaboration tools such as Figma and Miro, and product-planning systems
- Experience with enterprise AI products, including ServiceNow or similar Virtual Agent, Search, or AI Agent solutions.
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Additional Information
Work Personas
We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here. To determine eligibility for a work persona, ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third-party service.
Equal Opportunity Employer
ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.
Accommodations
We strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, or are unable to use this online application and need an alternative method to apply, please contact globaltalentss@servicenow.com for assistance.
Export Control Regulations
For positions requiring access to controlled technology subject to export control regulations, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR), ServiceNow may be required to obtain export control approval from government authorities for certain individuals. All employment is contingent upon ServiceNow obtaining any export license or other approval that may be required by relevant export control authorities.
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Product Owner Jobs in San Diego: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a product owner job in San Diego?
Start by targeting San Diego's strongest hiring sectors: defense technology contractors in Sorrento Valley, biotech and health IT firms along the Torrey Pines corridor, and fintech and SaaS companies Downtown. Candidates who combine Agile or SAFe certification with domain knowledge in defense systems, life sciences platforms, or financial products stand out in this market. Networking through San Diego's local tech meetup scene and PDMA chapter also opens doors that cold applications rarely do.
Which companies hire product owners in San Diego?
Employers hiring product owners in San Diego right now include Intuit, Qualcomm, and ServiceNow, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. San Diego's employer mix skews toward established defense primes, mid-size biotech firms, and venture-backed SaaS companies, many of which maintain dedicated product teams locally.
Are there remote product owner jobs in San Diego?
Yes, though availability depends on the sector. About 78% of product owner openings tied to San Diego are remote or hybrid as of September 2026, reflecting how common distributed product teams have become in software and SaaS. Defense and regulated biotech roles tend to require on-site presence, while enterprise software and fintech positions in the Downtown and Sorrento Valley corridors more often allow remote or hybrid schedules.
How can I get a product owner job in San Diego with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path in San Diego is moving laterally from a business analyst, QA, or project coordinator role at a mid-size tech or health IT company, where cross-functional exposure is easier to earn. Local defense contractors and biotech firms sometimes hire junior product analysts as a stepping stone. Completing a recognized Agile or CSPO certification and contributing to a side project with a measurable outcome gives you concrete evidence for San Diego hiring managers who otherwise see thin resumes.
Which industries hire the most product owners in San Diego?
Most product owner openings in San Diego sit in Technology & Software, Medical Devices, and Electronics & Hardware, per current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. San Diego's concentration of defense primes, life sciences companies, and a growing SaaS ecosystem makes these sectors the consistent drivers of local product owner hiring throughout the year.
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