Remote Product Owner - Agile, Outcome-Driven

CAI; Augusta (ME); Remote; USD 90,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401k retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

CAI is seeking a Product Owner to align product vision with development execution, delivering user-focused outcomes and business value. The role is a full-time, remote 3-month contract, with a strong focus on backlog grooming and stakeholder collaboration.

You will bridge product management and engineering, translate visions into actionable requirements, and lead a cross-functional team through multiple sprints, ensuring acceptance criteria are met and roadmaps are followed.

Qualifications

• 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.

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
• 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

Skills

Product Ownership

Strategic thinking

Design thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Healthcare Discipline, Information Management, or related field

Tools

Agile certification

Job description

CAI is seeking a Product Owner to align product vision with development execution, delivering user-focused outcomes and business value. The role is a full-time, remote 3-month contract, with a strong focus on backlog grooming and stakeholder collaboration.

You will bridge product management and engineering, translate visions into actionable requirements, and lead a cross-functional team through multiple sprints, ensuring acceptance criteria are met and roadmaps are followed.