Contract Product Owner
Job Description:
- Establish collaborative partnerships with key stakeholders to assess and recommend Agile practices and business and technical solutions
- Lead cross-functional delivery teams to deliver business outcomes
- Drive product vision while considering downstream impacts of new features across programs
- Develop, monitor, manage, and report integrated IT project plans, milestones, and deliverables
- Support triage and resolution of critical project issues and scope changes
- Prepare and deliver verbal and written project-status communications for internal and client teams
- Influence stakeholders at all organizational levels and implement recommended changes
- Perform hands-on project work, including analysis, design, process engineering, and change management
- Adapt to diverse client engagements, including consultative senior-management advising and highly visible technical projects
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, MIS and/or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 5 years experience in an Agile product ownership or project/program management role, preferably with full development life cycle experience
- 3 years experience with Scrum and/or Kanban frameworks
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) experience
- Experience in digital product management or agile product coaching
- Demonstrated track record of successfully managing large and complex consulting engagements
- Ability to assess user requirements, identify omissions and gaps, and design optimal solutions
- Creative thinking and innovative solutions to complex technical/business problems
- Ability to establish immediate credibility with clients, build consensus, and achieve goals through influence
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Must be authorized to work directly for any employer in the United States without visa sponsorship
Benefits:
- Generous PTO
- Health coverage
- Disability insurance
- Paid family leave
- Remote and hybrid workforce support with daily flexibility (CapFlex)
- Certification and tuition support
- Digital on-demand learning courses
- Mentorship and skill development paths
- Mental health and well-being platform with 1:1 care, group support sessions, and self-serve resources (Modern Health)
- Fertility and family-forming coverage, including adoption, surrogacy, fertility treatments, and pregnancy (Carrot Fertility)
- Company-paid personalized lifestyle benefits stipend (Fringe)
- Employee Resource Groups
- Philanthropic partnerships and pro-bono project opportunities
- 401(k) matching with no vesting period