CCaaS GCP Product Owner

BETSOL•Broomfield, CO

7d•$100,000 - $120,000

About The Position

We are seeking an experienced Product Owner for a Contact Center Cloud Platform (CCaaS and GCP) to lead backlog ownership, prioritization, work definition, and delivery planning for cloud-based contact center capabilities. This role serves as the primary liaison between Contact Center Operations, Product Management, Engineering, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and third-party technology partners. You will translate business demand into implementation-ready work, facilitate cross-enterprise prioritization, manage a healthy backlog, and drive successful Program Increment (PI) planning and execution. The ideal candidate combines strong Product Owner execution skills with practical experience supporting Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) platforms, cloud technologies, AI-driven customer engagement solutions, and large-scale Agile delivery practices. The role focuses on capabilities supporting customer service operations including voice, digital engagement, conversational AI, call recording, workforce optimization, analytics, agent experience, and cloud platform enablement.

Requirements

5+ years of Product Owner, Technical Product Owner, Product Management, or Agile Product Delivery experience, including 3+ years supporting cloud-based technology platforms.
Expert backlog ownership and backlog grooming
Ability to independently write implementation-ready user stories
Strong cross-enterprise facilitation and prioritization experience
Experience leading PI Planning and quarterly planning events
CCaaS/contact center technology experience
Google Cloud Platform experience
Ability to manage cross-team dependencies and influence without authority
Strong communication skills with both executive and technical stakeholders
Experience supporting customer experience and contact center transformation initiatives
Product backlog ownership and refinement.
User story development, feature definition, and acceptance criteria creation.
Sprint planning, release planning, quarterly planning, and Program Increment (PI) Planning.
Dependency management, Agile metrics, and delivery forecasting.
Experience facilitating cross-functional prioritization across business and technology organizations.
Experience supporting large-scale Agile delivery programs.
Proven experience leading backlog grooming, story refinement, and work decomposition.
Experience supporting Contact Center technologies, customer engagement platforms, or customer service operations.
Automatic Call Distribution (ACD)
Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
Omnichannel routing and skills-based routing
Agent desktop applications
Workforce Management (WFM) and Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Quality Management (QM)
Call recording
Speech analytics
Email, chat, SMS, and social engagement platforms
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Cloud Run
BigQuery
Pub/Sub
Cloud Functions
Vertex AI
Apigee
Cloud Storage
Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
REST APIs
Microservices architecture
Event-driven architecture
Kafka and Pub/Sub messaging
CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
ServiceNow integrations
CRM integrations
Experience utilizing BigQuery, Tableau, Power BI, Looker, contact center analytics platforms, and operational KPI dashboards, with an understanding of contact center metrics including:
Service Level
Average Speed of Answer (ASA)
Average Handle Time (AHT)
First Contact Resolution (FCR)
Abandonment Rate
Customer Satisfaction (CSAT)
Net Promoter Score (NPS)
Agent Utilization
Strong communication with both executive and technical stakeholders.
Ability to influence without authority and manage cross-team dependencies.
Strong facilitation and problem-solving skills.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Business, or a related field. Equivalent experience may be considered.

Nice To Haves

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM), and/or SAFe Agilist (SA).
Experience supporting one or more preferred CCaaS platforms: Five9, Quality Management (Verint), Workforce Management (Verint, Aspect, NICE).
Experience supporting customer experience and contact center transformation initiatives.

Responsibilities

Own and maintain the Contact Center GCP backlog.
Lead backlog refinement and grooming sessions across multiple delivery teams.
Ensure a continuous pipeline of implementation-ready work exists for engineering teams.
Prioritize features, enhancements, technical debt, compliance activities, and operational improvements based on business value and strategic objectives.
Establish backlog health standards, work readiness criteria, and prioritization frameworks.
Balance competing priorities across business, operations, architecture, infrastructure, and engineering organizations.
Translate business demand into actionable user stories.
Write clear, concise, implementation-ready user stories with detailed acceptance criteria.
Partner with CCaaS IT product owners, architects, engineers, and business stakeholders to clarify requirements.
Ensure work meets Definition of Ready standards prior to planning events.
Facilitate requirements workshops and backlog refinement activities.
Validate delivered functionality against business goals and customer outcomes.
Serve as the primary liaison between the GCP scrum teams and technology delivery teams.
Facilitate demand intake and prioritization discussions across enterprise stakeholders.
Manage competing requests and negotiate tradeoffs between business objectives and technical constraints.
Build alignment among Contact Center Operations, Digital Product Teams, Architecture, and CCaaS Platform Partners.
Communicate roadmap priorities, delivery commitments, and dependency impacts.
Drive consensus among diverse stakeholder groups.
Lead preparation activities for Program Increment (PI) Planning.
Facilitate story readiness reviews and planning workshops.
Coordinate dependency identification and resolution across multiple teams.
Support quarterly planning, release planning, capacity planning, and roadmap execution.
Partner with Scrum Masters, Engineering Managers, Architects, and Release Train Engineers.
Drive risk identification and mitigation planning.
Ensure alignment between strategic objectives and delivery commitments.
Partner with CCaaS IT product owners to identify opportunities that improve customer and agent experiences.
Support modernization and optimization initiatives across CCaaS and cloud platforms.
Drive prioritization and delivery of capabilities including voice routing, omnichannel engagement, interactive voice response (IVR), digital messaging, call recording, quality management, workforce optimization, speech analytics, agent assist, conversational AI, and reporting and analytics.
Collaborate with vendors and engineering teams to evaluate emerging platform capabilities.
Ensure security, regulatory, and compliance requirements are incorporated into delivery plans.
Partner with Architecture and Security teams on cloud governance initiatives.
Support resiliency, disaster recovery, and operational readiness objectives.
Ensure platform capabilities align with enterprise standards and controls.