Product Owner

On-Demand Group; Effingham (IL); Remote; USD 68,880 - 79,900; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Job summary

A leading tech staffing agency is seeking a mid-senior level Product Owner for a remote contract position until December 2026. This role involves leading the product lifecycle and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure product success. Responsibilities include managing the product backlog, facilitating requirements, and participating in agile processes. Ideal candidates should have strong skills in communication, risk management, and the ability to guide cross-functional teams. Competitive hourly pay range of $50 to $58 applies.

Qualifications

• Experience working with product managers on roadmaps and delivery.
• Ability to define product needs through epics and features.
• Experience in facilitating requirements and managing product backlogs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the product lifecycle in alignment with organizational objectives.
• Manage day-to-day activities and communicate product vision to teams.
• Facilitate feedback collection and approval for development deliverables.

Skills

Product road mapping

User stories creation

Stakeholder communication

Risk management

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

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Base pay range

$50.00/hr - $58.00/hr

On-Demand Group is currently seeking for a Product Owner for a 1 year contract engagement.

Title: Product Owner

Duration: Contract through 12/2026

Location: Remote

JOB SUMMARY

The Product Owner is responsible for leading a product or set of product features through road mapping, design, and development phases of product lifecycle in support of organizational objectives. The Product Owner is responsible for a complex product domain or multiple smaller product domains and partners with Product Managers to create the product roadmap to deliver product value. The Product Owner is responsible for the internal, day-to-day management of the product line and for defining product needs in a release through epics and features in alignment with product strategy. This role works closely with product stakeholders to develop specifications for consumption by the development teams and clearly communicates the product vision, roadmap, and customer value to all necessary technical teams. This role identifies and facilitates the implementation of best practices for the product owner role.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Work in partnership with Product Manager to draft, manage and maintain a roadmap based upon product and release strategy
• Responsible for creating and facilitating feature requirements, user stories and user interface design changes when working with technical teams to ensure readiness for development
• Gather input from Product Manager and key stakeholders in order to refine, prioritize, and maintain product backlog.
• Ensure solutions meet the product requirements and enables the overall product health
• Participate in sprint demonstrations, gather feedback from stakeholders, and approve or reject sprint deliverables
• Partner with Product Manager to provide input on timing and readiness of planned production releases
• Coordinate and assist with beta process and resolution of product release issues across stakeholders and with development team
• Identify and manage risks at the release and iteration level in partnership with team managers
• Participate in (and in some cases lead) daily stand-ups, refinement, story review, sprint planning, and retrospectives
• Provide customer production issue escalation assistance and oversight to ensure resolution
• Ensure that training content is created and delivered for new product functionality
• For products under scope of regulatory quality management, assist with quality related tasks and complete quality training as required
• Identify and facilitate (and in some cases lead) cross-functional product process initiatives to implement best practices

ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS

• Provide domain expertise to assist with user experience planning
• Participate in (and in some cases lead) customer meetings
• Mentor product owner team members

The projected hourly range for this position is $50 to $58.

On-Demand Group (ODG) provides employee benefits which includes healthcare, dental, and vision insurance. ODG is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Contract

Job function

Product Management