Hybrid IT Program Manager & Product Owner Lead

WideNet Consulting Group; Bellevue (WA); Hybrid; USD 103,000 - 114,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Medical Benefits

401K

Employee Assistance Program

Sick Time

Job summary

WideNet Consulting Group in Bellevue seeks a Senior IT Project Manager to lead a full project lifecycle, translating business needs into clear requirements and actionable user stories. The role combines program discipline with business analysis and product ownership in a fast-paced environment.

You will manage scope, schedule, resources, risks, and budget across multiple workstreams, coordinate with stakeholders and partners, and drive sprint planning, governance, and change management.

Qualifications

• Strong program and project management experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience managing multiple workstreams, dependencies, risks, timelines, and deliverables.
• Strong business analysis and requirements facilitation experience.
• Experience translating business needs into actionable requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments, including sprint planning and backlog refinement.

Responsibilities

• Manage the full project lifecycle including scope, schedule, resources, risks, dependencies, milestones, budget, quality, and implementation.
• Drive the program roadmap and maintain alignment between business objectives, project priorities, workstreams, and delivery activities.
• Coordinate across multiple workstreams and teams, including business stakeholders, technical teams, data/integration teams, and implementation partners.
• Establish and maintain effective communication with project teams, stakeholders, and leadership.
• Prepare and facilitate recurring project meetings, status meetings, sprint ceremonies, and Steering Committee meetings.
• Identify project risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions and drive appropriate mitigation and resolution.
• Support change management throughout the project lifecycle.
• Develop project plans, status reports, decision materials, documentation, and other program artifacts.
• Lead requirements workshops with business and technical stakeholders to identify, clarify, prioritize, and document business and functional requirements.
• Translate business needs into SMART, actionable requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria that delivery teams can execute against.
• Ask effective questions, identify ambiguity and gaps, and help stakeholders move from concepts and desired outcomes to clearly defined requirements.
• Partner with business and technical teams to refine the product backlog and support prioritization of requirements and capabilities.
• Facilitate sprint planning and execution in collaboration with project leadership, solution architects, and delivery teams.
• Support development of foundational processes, governance, and Center of Excellence capabilities as appropriate.
• Communicate program status, key decisions, risks, and escalations effectively to executive and senior leadership.

Skills

Program management

Project management

Business analysis

Agile/Scrum

Stakeholder communication

Requirements facilitation

Tools

Microsoft Project

Visio

Excel

Word

Job description

WideNet Consulting Group in Bellevue seeks a Senior IT Project Manager to lead a full project lifecycle, translating business needs into clear requirements and actionable user stories. The role combines program discipline with business analysis and product ownership in a fast-paced environment.

You will manage scope, schedule, resources, risks, and budget across multiple workstreams, coordinate with stakeholders and partners, and drive sprint planning, governance, and change management.