Senior Product Owner — Enterprise Collaboration & AI Adoption

Hbcu Connect, Llc; Durham (NC); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK is seeking a Senior Product Owner to own the vision, backlog and outcomes for Microsoft 365 adoption across a 50,000-user footprint. You will decide what to build, in what order, and ensure user adoption while balancing governance and information protection.

You will translate the MS 365 roadmap into a sequenced backlog, lead sprint ceremonies, and partner with Cyber Security, Legal and Privacy to land compliant changes. This role is based in the United States on a hybrid basis.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 7+ years in technology delivery, including 4+ years as Product Owner with backlog authority.
• Product ownership serving 10,000+ users across multiple countries.
• Hands-on experience with core Microsoft 365 workloads (Teams, SharePoint/OneDrive, Exchange).
• Experience driving adoption of collaboration capability at scale with measurable results.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a rolling roadmap balancing new capability, adoption, governance and compliance obligations, technical debt and experience improvement.
• Translate platform architecture direction and the Microsoft 365 roadmap into a sequenced backlog for delivery.
• Own business case and benefits realization for product investment, including license cost at large scale.
• Own and prioritise the product backlog as the single source of truth for the squad.
• Write clear user stories and acceptance criteria focused on outcomes and measurable success.
• Lead sprint planning, refinement, review and retrospective with the Scrum Master; validate against acceptance criteria.
• Manage dependencies across adjacent squads and escalate early when threatened.
• Own release approach for user-visible change including pilot rings, communications and training.
• Define adoption metrics, instrument measurement, and act on results to improve outcomes.
• Collaborate with Security, Legal, Privacy on controls and governance for compliance.

Skills

Agile Methodology

Backlogs

Cross-Functional Teams

Design Thinking

DevOps

Product Strategy

Project Management

Requirements Gathering

UX

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft 365

Teams

SharePoint

OneDrive

Exchange

Power Platform

Copilot

Job description

GSK is seeking a Senior Product Owner to own the vision, backlog and outcomes for Microsoft 365 adoption across a 50,000-user footprint. You will decide what to build, in what order, and ensure user adoption while balancing governance and information protection.

You will translate the MS 365 roadmap into a sequenced backlog, lead sprint ceremonies, and partner with Cyber Security, Legal and Privacy to land compliant changes. This role is based in the United States on a hybrid basis.