Product Owner (Agile) Contract-to-Hire (Conversion Opportunity)

Group Voyagers•Remote, US,

18d•$103,000 - $150,000•Remote

About The Position

The Agile Product Owner is responsible for one or more Agile teams maximizing value delivery within each Program Increment (PI). The Agile Product Owner is focused on translating a product vision into an actionable backlog and ensuring that the agile development team delivers high-quality, business-relevant features. This tactical role within the Agile delivery team is responsible for defining user stories, prioritizing the backlog, and ensuring the development team delivers value in alignment with the product vision and stakeholder needs. The Agile Product Owner plays a pivotal role in Scrum teams, serving as the "voice of the customer" and ensuring solutions evolve to meet changing business needs. The role is responsible for the following results: 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

Deep understanding of user-centric design.
Strong business analysis and process mapping capabilities and capacity to balance strategic vision with detailed execution.
Excellent project management skills.
Excellent communication skills to bridge technical and business domains.
Proficiency in product management frame works Agile methodologies and Scrum practices.
Solution packaging and deployment (managed/unmanaged solutions).
ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) (e.g., using Azure DevOps).
Release management and rollback strategies.
3+ years working as a Product Owner in Agile environments
Experience working with cross-functional teams (engineering, QA, UX, DevOps)
PDLC
Out Systems
MS 365 (including MS Dynamics, Copilot)
ServiceNow
Azure Dev Ops

Nice To Haves

Product Owner Certification
SAFe Product Owner Certification preferred

Responsibilities

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.