Product Owner, Agile – Contract-to-Hire
Job Description
Job Description:
• Responsible for product delivery, including regular enhancements and major new capabilities.
• Engages with sponsors, business leaders, and end users to translate high-level product vision and business requirements into actionable user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Owns and refines product backlog, ensures well-defined, prioritized user stories, ready for development.
• Maintains enhancement request process, capability of roadmaps and deployment schedules.
• Communicate priorities, trade-offs, and progress to stakeholders.
• Accept or reject completed stories per acceptance criteria and quality standards.
• Actively participates in sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives, providing clarifications and accepting/rejecting deliverables.
• Focuses on delivering incremental value through frequent releases, ensuring alignment with strategic direction.
• Makes day-to-day decisions on feature scope, priorities, and trade-offs during the development cycle.
• Coordinates with training, and business leaders for successful rollouts and adoption.
Requirements:
• 3+ years working as a Product Owner in Agile environments
• Experience working with cross-functional teams (engineering, QA, UX, DevOps)
• Product Owner Certification; SAFe Product Owner Certification preferred
• PDLC
• Out Systems
• MS 365 (including MS Dynamics, Copilot)
• ServiceNow
• Azure Dev Ops
Benefits:
• Generous benefit package including travel benefits and retirement.
• Travel and/or in-office presence may be required at times.