Your Job
As a Product Owner for Persona-based Applications, you will be accountable for maximizing the value delivered through persona-based frontline applications by defining product vision, prioritizing features, managing product roadmaps, and ensuring outcomes align with business objectives.
You will work closely with environmental, operations, and maintenance stakeholders to identify opportunities, prioritize work, and deliver scalable digital inspection and workflow solutions that improve compliance, operational discipline, precision maintenance practices, and frontline execution across Georgia-Pacific facilities.
This role requires someone who understands both manufacturing operations and digital product delivery—someone who can connect strategic business objectives to product execution while driving adoption, value realization, and continuous improvement across Georgia-Pacific facilities.
Location: Atlanta, GA onsite three days per week.
Our Team
The Connected Worker team delivers Industry 4.0 capabilities through persona-based frontline applications that improve safety, quality, reliability, and productivity in our mills and converting facilities.
Our focus is building and scaling connected worker solutions—digital tools that help operators, technicians, and leaders execute standard work consistently and make better decisions in the moment. These applications are designed around distinct frontline personas and real plant conditions, providing the right workflow, data, and context at the point of work.
We work closely with operations leaders and cross-functional technology partners to ensure solutions integrate with core manufacturing systems and align with GP’s broader smart factory roadmap—moving beyond pilots to sustainable, repeatable capabilities deployed across our global network.
What You Will Do
- Define and execute the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and backlog for persona-based frontline applications
- Lead a cross-functional team of Business Analysts, Developers, and vendor partners to deliver high-value digital solutions
- Partner with Operations, Capability Leaders, IT, and vendors to identify opportunities, prioritize investments, and drive measurable business outcomes
- Own backlog prioritization, balancing business value, user feedback, support needs, and technical improvements
- Drive product delivery, manage dependencies, and remove barriers to execution across multiple teams
- Lead product discovery and engage frontline users to improve inspection, operational, and maintenance workflows
- Manage product rollout, user adoption, training, and change management activities across the enterprise
- Monitor product health, adoption, and business outcomes while driving continuous improvement and value realization
- Communicate roadmap progress, priorities, risks, and results to business and Digital Manufacturing leadership
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Delivery Lead, or similar role delivering digital products and business outcomes
- Experience working with Agile delivery teams and multi-team environments
- Experience aligning stakeholders and driving decisions across business and technical organizations
- Experience supporting manufacturing, operations, maintenance, reliability, quality, or environmental processes
- Willingness to travel up to 15%
- Must have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship
What Will Put You Ahead
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Information Systems, Engineering, Business, Industrial Technology, Operations, or a related field
- Experience working in manufacturing, with an understanding of frontline workflows, operational processes, and continuous improvement practices
- Experience using Azure DevOps or similar tools to manage backlogs, epics, features, user stories, dependencies, and delivery status
- Experience supporting UAT, adoption planning, training content, rollout readiness, or site hypercare for manufacturing applications
- Leads cross-functional alignment through strong facilitation and influence, translating business requirements and technical constraints into measurable value
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day – to make everyday products even better.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).
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