Contract Product Owner
Contract Product Owner
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30-07-2025
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Job Description
This is a 6-12-month W2 contract. It is a 100% remote role based anywhere in the United States.
Our client is in the midst of a major acquisition and is looking for experienced Product Owners who can embed quickly into agile teams and ensure continuity in backlog creation & management prioritization and stakeholder alignment in anticipation of the acquisition. Potential for contract to hire as long-term strategy unfolds.
The surge Product Owner(s) will be responsible for:
- Acting as the primary point of contact for one or more agile delivery teams.
- Creating managing and refining the team backlog in alignment with the following strategies:
- Employee Experience Program
- Billing Experience
- Mid-Market Experience
- Customer Experience (non-mid market)
- Data Migration
- Writing clear actionable user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Prioritizing work based on value delivery dependencies and team in key agile ceremonies (e.g. sprint planning reviews retrospectives daily stand-ups).
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive successful product delivery during organizational transitions.
- Partner with business SMEs for domain knowledge transfer
- Engaging with business stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into product features.
- Ensuring delivered functionality meets business expectations and acceptance criteria.
- Escalating risks or blockers that impact delivery timelines or scope.
- Serve as the voice of the customer and internal stakeholders throughout the M&A lifecycle ensuring business continuity and minimal service disruption.
- Monitor and communicate KPIs related to product performance user adoption and operational readiness in the context of post-merger integration.
Deliverables:
- A groomed and prioritized product backlog for assigned teams
- Documented user stories with clear acceptance criteria
- Participation in all agile ceremonies
- Weekly progress reports or updates to key stakeholders
- Clear articulation of risks blockers and mitigation plans
Qualifications
- 3 years of experience as a Product Owner in an agile environment
- Strong understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum SAFe or equivalent)
- Proven experience translating business requirements into technical deliverables
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience with tools such as Jira Confluence LucidChat or similar
Preferred:
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM)
- Experience working with decentralized or offshore agile teams
- Familiarity with telecom or similar infastructure systems like OSS/BSS network inventory service activation and billing
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