Product Manager / Proxy Product Owner

EPAM Systems•Boston, MA

About The Position

The Product Manager / Proxy Product Owner leads product delivery for a life sciences cold-chain IoT platform. The role serves as the key liaison between business stakeholders, product leadership, and a distributed engineering team, setting a clear product vision, defining priorities, and ensuring delivery of business outcomes. The platform consolidates capabilities from multiple legacy solutions into a unified Azure-based ecosystem. It supports shipment setup, product and lane management, live monitoring and alerting, investigations and reporting, audit trails, electronic signatures, and release decision workflows. Development uses Agile practices, including two-week sprints, PI planning, and milestone-based execution.

Requirements

At least 7 years of experience in Product Management or Product Ownership for enterprise software or B2B SaaS products.
At least 3 years of experience working in Agile environments using Scrum, SAFe, or similar frameworks.
Proven experience serving as a client-facing Product Manager, Product Owner, or Proxy PO working with distributed delivery teams.
Strong backlog management experience using Jira and Confluence.
Expertise in defining MVPs and managing scope within modernization, transformation, or platform consolidation programs.
Strong stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, and workshop leadership skills.
Experience translating business requirements into actionable product roadmaps and delivery plans.
Good understanding of cloud-based SaaS platforms, APIs, integrations, multi-tenancy, permissions, reporting, and data-driven products.
Experience collaborating closely with engineering, architecture, UX, and business teams.

Nice To Haves

Experience in Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical Supply Chain, Cold Chain, Logistics, or IoT domains.
Experience with regulated software environments and compliance-driven products.
Knowledge of GxP standards and validation processes.
Background in platform modernization or digital transformation initiatives.

Responsibilities

Act as a Proxy Product Owner and manage day-to-day backlog activities.
Drive product discovery, MVP definition, capability prioritization, and roadmap execution.
Translate business objectives into prioritized epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
Ensure backlog readiness and maintain detailed requirements in Jira and Confluence.
Facilitate backlog refinement sessions, sprint reviews, demos, and planning activities.
Manage scope, assess change requests, and balance competing priorities.
Coordinate milestone acceptance activities with business, quality, and technical stakeholders.
Collaborate with UX/UI teams to define and optimize key user journeys.
Support pilot launches, onboarding activities, UAT, and product adoption initiatives.
Define and track product KPIs and business success metrics.
Leverage AI-assisted product management practices to improve analysis and requirements quality.