Product Owner - Contractor

Beyond Sports; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Part time

Job summary

Beyond Sports seeks a freelance Product Owner to drive CMS-driven platforms for major sporting organizations. You will own the roadmap, define technical requirements, and manage the backlog for CMS-driven websites and apps.

You will collaborate daily with engineers, designers, and QA to translate client and fan needs into actionable tasks and deliver value within a 3-month window. You will lead CMS decisions, model content, manage editorial workflows, and orchestrate platform configurations.

Qualifications

• Experienced Product Owner/PM with a background in the digital sector.
• Comfortable working closely with engineering teams.
• CMS experience with ownership/delivery of CMS-based products.
• Understanding of content models, editorial workflows, integrations and CMS impact on engineering/content teams.
• Strong track record in delivering consumer-facing digital platforms.
• Experience writing technical requirements and detailed user stories for engineers.
• Experience with backlog and ticket management in JIRA; Confluence for documentation.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the product roadmap aligned with client objectives and delivery capacity.
• Define technical requirements and convert them into epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Manage the backlog end-to-end, including ticket creation, refinement, prioritisation and keeping JIRA up to date.
• Collaborate with engineers to clarify requirements, unblock issues and make scope/feasibility trade-offs.
• Lead CMS-related product decisions, including content models, workflows, integrations and platform configuration.
• Lead agile ceremonies: backlog refinement, sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives.

Skills

CMS experience

Backlog management

Agile/Scrum

Technical requirements writing

Stakeholder management

Tools

WordPress

Contentful

Drupal

Sitecore

Adobe Experience Manager

Job description

Описание

Product Owner (Contractor) Contract/freelance basis Location: Hungary, Remote (Must be based in Hungary) Duration: 3 months We’re looking for a freelance Product Owner with strong CMS experience to work on the digital platforms of some of the biggest sporting organisations in the world. For the next three months you’ll own the roadmap, technical requirements and ticketing for CMS-driven websites and mobile apps used by millions of fans worldwide. You’ll work day to day with engineers, designers and QA. Your job is to turn client and fan needs into clear, buildable requirements and keep delivery moving. You should be able to get up to speed quickly, make decisions and start adding value from week one.

Задачи

• Own and maintain the product roadmap, keeping it aligned with client objectives and delivery capacity.
• Define technical requirements and turn them into well-structured epics, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Manage the backlog end to end, including ticket creation, refinement, prioritisation and keeping JIRA accurate and up to date.
• Work closely with engineers to clarify requirements, unblock issues and make pragmatic trade-offs on scope and feasibility.
• Lead CMS-related product decisions, including content models, editorial workflows, integrations and platform configuration.
• Run or contribute to agile ceremonies: backlog refinement, sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews and retros.
• Act as the main point of contact between engineering and client stakeholders, translating business needs into technical tasks.
• Use analytics and user feedback to prioritise improvements and measure outcomes.

Требования

• You’re an experienced Product Owner or technical Product Manager with a background in the digital sector, ideally from an agency or client-facing delivery environment.
• You’re comfortable working closely with engineering teams.
• CMS experience.
• You must have owned or delivered products built on a CMS (e.g. WordPress, Contentful, Drupal, Sitecore, Adobe Experience Manager or similar headless/traditional platforms).
• You understand content models, editorial workflows, integrations and how CMS decisions affect engineering and content teams.
• A strong track record in the digital market, delivering consumer-facing websites and/or mobile apps.
• Experience writing technical requirements and detailed user stories that engineers can build from.
• Strong backlog and ticket management skills in JIRA, with Confluence for documentation.
• A solid working understanding of web and app technologies (APIs, integrations, front-end/back-end concepts), so you can hold your own in technical discussions.
• Experience in agile/Scrum teams, including sprint planning, refinement and iterative delivery.
• Clear, structured communication that you can adapt for engineers, designers and clients.
• Comfortable with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Slack and Miro.
• Experience in sports, media or high-traffic content platforms.
• Familiarity with headless CMS architectures.
• Experience with analytics tools (e.g. GA4, Adobe Analytics, Amplitude).
• Pragmatic and focused on delivery. You keep tickets moving and sprints on track.
• Quick to build trust with engineering teams and client stakeholders.
• Hands-on and detail-oriented, willing to roll up your sleeves on the backlog.
• You know when to push back on scope, when to compromise and when to just get it shipped.