Product Owner #1063459

FastTek Global; Okemos (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and Dental

Vision

Personal Time Off (PTO)

Long Term Disability

Life Insurance

401(k) with immediate vesting

Job summary

Okemos, Michigan — FastTek Global seeks a Product Owner to bridge business needs with technology delivery. You will own the product backlog, lead discovery with stakeholders, and guide agile ceremonies to deliver customer value across domains.

Responsibilities include defining goals, maintaining roadmaps, prioritizing work, and ensuring acceptance criteria are met. Collaboration with analysts, developers, UX, and QA is essential to success.

Qualifications

• Experience leading product discovery with business owners, customers, and operational teams.
• Ability to own and order product backlog based on value and regulatory requirements.
• Proven ability to guide Agile ceremonies and align stakeholders around priorities.

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.

Skills

Backlog management

Product discovery

Stakeholder management

Agile ceremonies

SQL queries

Tools

SQL

Job description

Okemos, Michigan Product Owner #1063459

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.

Additional Info

At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories.Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra. We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.

We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashionedhard work for 24 years!

FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused.

We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest. Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.

Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match

Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.

FastTek Global was named one of the Top Work Places in Michigan by the Detroit Free Press in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023!

To view all of our open positions go to: https://www.fasttek.com/fastswitch/findwork

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