Senior Product Owner

Aleron; New York (NY); Remote; USD 146,000 - 197,000; Full time

Job summary

Acara Solutions seeks a hands-on Senior Product Owner to lead the design, configuration, and implementation of an Enterprise Knowledge Management platform. The time-bound engagement focuses on governance, content lifecycle, and practical solutions across SharePoint Online, Power BI, and a low-code workflow platform.

You will own the product vision, manage backlogs, and drive agile delivery with stakeholders, ensuring audit-ready readiness and smooth transition to a permanent team.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED.
• 5+ years of SharePoint Online configuration including content types and taxonomy.
• 5+ years with Power Platform and low-code tools (Appian also acceptable).
• 5+ years translating business needs into executable solutions and release docs.
• 5+ years in content development, metadata, governance and lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision, backlog, and prioritization, translating business needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, workflows, and test scenarios.
• Design, configure, and enhance the EKM ecosystem, including SharePoint Online, metadata, taxonomy, permissions, and lifecycle automation.
• Build Power BI dashboards and reporting models to track content quality and platform effectiveness.
• Partner with stakeholders and technology teams to align requirements, manage dependencies, and remove blockers in agile fashion.
• Lead end-to-end quality, testing, release management, documentation, and production readiness with regulatory compliance.

Skills

SharePoint Online

Power Platform

Content Governance

Power BI Dashboards

Agile / Stakeholder Mgmt

Low-Code Platforms

Education

High School Diploma

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Power Apps

Power Automate

Dataverse

Appian

Job description

Job Title: Senior Product Owner

Location: Remote, NY

Employment Type: Temp (11 Months)

Industry: Banking

Compensation: $125.00/Hour

Schedule: 40 Hours/Week

About the Opportunity

• We're seeking a hands-on Senior Product Owner to lead the design, configuration, and implementation of an Enterprise Knowledge Management (EKM) platform. This time-bound engagement offers the opportunity to shape a governed knowledge ecosystem, streamline content lifecycle management, and deliver practical solutions across SharePoint Online, Power BI, and a low-code workflow platform. You'll combine product strategy, technical execution, and stakeholder collaboration to build an audit-ready solution that can be seamlessly transitioned to a permanent team.

Why You'll Love Working Here

• Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
• Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
• People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
• Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.

Why This Opportunity is Exciting

This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritises both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.

About Acara Solutions

Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customise visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.

What You'll Do

• Own the product vision, delivery backlog, and prioritization, translating business needs into actionable user stories, acceptance criteria, workflows, and test scenarios.
• Design, configure, and enhance the EKM ecosystem, including SharePoint Online, governed content catalogs, metadata, taxonomy, permissions, publishing workflows, lifecycle automation, and approval processes.
• Build Power BI dashboards and reporting models to track content quality, lifecycle health, compliance, usage, and platform effectiveness.
• Partner with business stakeholders, subject-matter experts, and technology teams to align requirements, manage dependencies, remove blockers, and drive delivery through agile practices.
• Lead end-to-end solution quality, testing, release management, documentation, production readiness, and ongoing platform improvements while ensuring compliance with risk, regulatory, and audit requirements.

Job Requirements

What You'll Bring

• High School Diploma or GED
• Minimum 5+ years of SharePoint Online configuration experience beyond site and page authoring, including content types, managed metadata and term store, list and view JSON formatting, search configuration, permission patterns and audience-based visibility.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in building, configuring or supporting workflow and automation solutions using Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse), Appian or comparable low-code technologies, including solution and environment management
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in developing business requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process documentation, testing scenarios and release documentation while translating business needs into executable solutions.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience with content development, content assessment, information architecture, metadata, taxonomy, search optimization, governance and lifecycle management concepts.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience operating in regulated environments, including financial services, fintech or comparable industries.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience with Microsoft 365 technologies, including Microsoft Search and Copilot, and with building reporting and dashboards in Power BI or comparable tools.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in SharePoint Online - Advanced Configuration and Power BI - Data Modeling & Dashboards
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in Low Code Platform - Power Apps, Power Automate and Appian
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in Agentic AI and AI-assisted development tools

What Sets You Apart

• Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum of 5 years of business, analytical, technical, digital product, transformation, product ownership, content management, knowledge management or related experience, with demonstrated senior-level ownership of technical delivery
• Experience applying content quality standards, editorial standards, accessibility standards or governance frameworks at scale.
• Experience using agentic AI or AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Codex or similar technologies to support analysis, prototyping, documentation, automation or testing activities.
• Experience with advanced Power Platform or Appian development, solution management, deployment and environment management practices.
• Experience in trust services, institutional services, legal operations, compliance or other document-intensive environments.
• Experience partnering with user experience, design, architecture, cybersecurity, risk, legal, compliance, operations or other enterprise shared-service functions.
• Knowledge of Agile, Lean, design thinking, systems thinking and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Working knowledge of AI-assisted tools and the ability to apply them responsibly to improve analysis, content drafting, tagging, documentation, testing or operational efficiency.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to bridge business and technical teams, manage competing priorities and work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to learn new platforms quickly and independently.

Additional Information

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.

Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.

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