Product Owner

cai; Pennsylvania; Remote; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

CAI is seeking a motivated Product Owner for a 3-month contract with remote work options. The role involves aligning product vision with development delivery, translating requirements into user-focused features, and maintaining a healthy backlog across multiple sprints.

A strong background in product ownership, strategic consulting, or design thinking is preferred. The candidate should have a Bachelor's degree and at least 3 years in related roles, including collaboration with external clients.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 3+ years in Product Ownership, Strategic Consulting, Design Thinking, Product Development & Management, or Project/Program Management.
• 3+ years of experience with external clients and fostering positive relationships.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to streamlining the execution of program priorities while maintaining conceptual and technical integrity for features or components.
• Collaborate with Solution Architect, Business Architect, Product Manager, and others to break down features into user stories.
• Translate the product manager's vision into business and functional requirements focusing on user outcomes.
• Maintain a well-groomed and prioritized backlog for multiple sprints and ensure backlog health.
• Accept stories as Done from the team and verify they meet acceptance criteria.
• Communicate product vision, strategy, and roadmap to stakeholders and track status for leadership.
• Work with product managers to understand problems the product aims to solve.
• Manage relationships with external vendors and align roadmaps for delivery.
• Serve as a Servant-Leader for cross-functional teams leveraging agile metrics.
• Communicate release contents and expected capabilities to stakeholders.
• Contribute to high-level release plans and continuously reprioritize tasks.
• Write user stories for new features and improvements and ensure test scripts cover stories.

Skills

Product ownership

Strategic consulting

Design thinking

Product development

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or related field

Job description

Who we are

CAI is a global services firm with over 9,000 associates worldwide and a yearly revenue of $1.3 billion+. We have over 40 years of excellence in uniting talent and technology to power the possible for our clients, colleagues, and communities. As a privately held company, we have the freedom and focus to do what is right-whatever it takes. Our tailor-made solutions create lasting results across the public and commercial sectors, and we are trailblazers in bringing neurodiversity to the enterprise.

Job Summary

We are looking for a motivated Product Owner ready to take us to the next level! If you have experience with product ownership, strategic consulting, or design thinking, and are looking for your next career move,

Job Description

We are looking for a Product Owner to drive alignment between product vision and development execution, ensuring delivery of user-focused outcomes and business value. This position will be Full-Time, 3 month contract, and Remote.

What You’ll Do

• Contribute to streamlining the execution of program priorities while maintaining conceptual and technical integrity for features or components
• Collaborate with Solution Architect, Business Architect, Product Manager, and others to break down features into user stories
• Act as a bridge between product and development teams by translating the product manager's vision into business and functional requirements, focusing on user outcomes
• Maintain a well-groomed and prioritized backlog to support optimal team allocation for multiple (3+) sprints, ensuring backlog health and enforcing definition of ready and done
• Recommend resolution paths to domain leadership if backlog health becomes insufficient
• Accept stories as "Done" from the team, ensuring they meet defined acceptance criteria
• Collaborate with stakeholders to create, maintain, and communicate product vision, strategy, and roadmap. Represent the product in team or minor governance meetings and track status for leadership
• Work with product managers to understand problems they aim to solve with the product
• Manage relationships with external vendors and align roadmaps for delivery execution and scope
• Serve as a Servant-Leader for cross-functional teams, leveraging agile program and team metrics
• Communicate product release contents and expected capabilities/behavior to stakeholders
• Contribute to high-level release plans and continually reprioritize team tasks based on new information and discussions with stakeholders
• Write clearly defined user stories for new product features, issues, and enhancements. Work with the team to implement improvement stories that enhance program quality
• Review, update, and sign off test scripts for both in-track and regression testing to ensure full coverage of user stories

What You’ll Need

• Required
• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Healthcare Discipline, Information Management, or closely related field
• 3+ years of experience in Product Ownership, Strategic Consulting, Design Thinking, Product Development & Management, or Project/Program Management
• 3+ years of experience working with external clients and fostering positive relationships and outcomes
• Preferred
• Agile certification from a recognized vendor (Scrum.org, SAFe, Scrum Alliance, etc.)
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to distill research and apply it to reach beneficial solutions

Physical Demands

Ability to safely and successfully perform essential job functions consistent with ADA and other federal, state, and local standards

Ability to conduct repetitive tasks on a computer, utilizing a mouse, keyboard, and monitor

Sedentary work that involves sitting or remaining stationary most of the time, with occasional need to move around the office to attend meetings

Reasonable accommodation statement

If you require a reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employment selection process, please direct your inquiries to [e-mail] or (888) 824 - 8111.

EEO Statement

It is the policy of Computer Aid, Inc.(CAI) not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or because he or she is a protected veteran. It is also the policy of CAI to take affirmative action to employ and to advance in employment, all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, dem