This article was co-authored by Kira Kessel, Associate at Metis Strategy. You’ve seen the virtues of transforming from a project to a product operating model: value-driven work, delivered by dedicated teams rather than through projects led by disparate team members. But as you embark on this transformation, you’ll have to remember one thing: you can’t do it without a product owner. The strategist, the technical expert, the business savvy leader—those with all three commonly called unicorns, or rock stars—is a person not easy to find. Why are they unicorns?Product owners are the linchpin of the…