Product Owner

AB2 Consulting, Inc.; Okemos (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

AB2 Consulting, Inc. is seeking a Product Owner focused on customer service, eligibility, and claims domains to align technology with business objectives. You will lead discovery, define goals, and manage roadmaps while coordinating across analysts, developers, and UX professionals.

You will own the backlog, refine user stories, and ensure acceptance criteria are met through Agile ceremonies. Strong collaboration and analytical skills are essential for success.

Responsibilities

• Lead product discovery with business owners, customers, account relationship managers, operations teams, and other stakeholders to identify problems, opportunities, needs, and outcomes.
• Define and communicate the product goal for an assigned domain and maintain the roadmap within organizational strategies; act as SME for one or two domains.
• Serve as product decision authority by resolving conflicts, evaluating alternatives, communicating tradeoffs, and escalating when needed.
• Own and refine the product backlog based on value, benefit, operational impact, risk, regulatory requirements, and constraints.
• Collaborate with analysts, developers, testers, architects, and UX professionals to evaluate options and assess enterprise impacts.
• Lead backlog refinement and ensure user stories, acceptance criteria, and business rules are understood by the Agile team.
• Represent the product in Agile ceremonies and coordinate sequencing and priorities across teams.
• Review increments to verify they meet acceptance criteria and business needs; lead demos, readiness, and release planning.
• Track product measurements and analyze adoption, performance, quality, incidents, and realized value.
• Identify opportunities to improve products, customer experiences, and processes within domain authority.
• Oversee AI initiative implementations within domain scope with appropriate oversight and compliance.
• Sign off on story cards and defects prior to production migration, ensuring readiness and release alignment.
• Assist in creating and executing basic SQL queries to validate product behavior and data issues with Business Analysts and engineering teams.

Job description

Summary

We are looking for Customer Service/CRM Product Owner, An Eligibility Product Owner, and a Claims and Provider Product Owner serves as the primary liaison between stakeholders and technology delivery teams, ensuring products, platforms, and processes are aligned with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and operational needs.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead product discovery with business owners, customers, account relationship managers, operational teams, and other stakeholders to identify customer problems, business opportunities, product needs, and desired outcomes.


• Establish and communicate the product goal for an assigned product, capability, or domain, and maintain the roadmap within approved organizational strategies; operate as a subject matter expert for one or two assigned domain areas.


• Serve as the product decision authority for assigned scope by resolving conflicting stakeholder needs, evaluating alternatives, communicating tradeoffs, and escalating decisions that exceed delegated authority.


• Own and continuously order the product backlog based on customer value, business benefit, operational impact, risk, regulatory requirements, dependencies, and delivery constraints.


• Collaborate with Business Analysts, developers, testers, architects, user-experience professionals, and other delivery partners to evaluate business and technology alternatives and identify enterprise impacts and constraints.


• Lead backlog refinement and ensure user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, and intended outcomes are sufficiently understood by the Agile team.


• Represent the product in Agile ceremonies and sprint, release, program, and roadmap-planning activities; coordinate sequencing, dependencies, and implementation of priorities across teams.


• Review completed increments and determine whether delivered work satisfies product intent, acceptance expectations, and business needs; lead or support demonstrations, readiness activities, implementation planning, communications, and training.


• Ensure agreed product measurements are tracked and evaluate product adoption, customer impact, operational performance, product quality, incidents, and realized business value using product metrics and analytics.


• Identify and lead opportunities to improve products, customer experiences, and business processes within the bounds of assigned product authority (typically one or two domains based on team assignments).


• Implementation of approved AI initiatives within assigned domain scope, including prototypes and domain-specific roadmaps, with appropriate human oversight and compliance.


• Be accountable for final signoff on story cards and defect fixes before migration to production, confirming acceptance criteria, business readiness, and release alignment.


• Support creation and execution of basic SQL queries to validate product behavior, confirm acceptance criteria outcomes, and investigate routine data issues in partnership with Business Analysts and engineering teams.