Product Owner

Key Responsibilities

• Product Backlog & User Stories: Own the functional product backlog. Write clear, detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and process workflows to ensure external technical teams have unambiguous specifications.
• Project Governance & Progress Reporting: Keep modernization projects strictly on track. Track feature delivery against timelines, run status updates, communicate risks early, and present progress dashboards to executive leadership.
• AI-Accelerated Discovery and development support: Utilize AI and modern discovery tools to draft requirements, analyze user pain points, and iterate on feature designs efficiently.
• Scope & Priority Management: Facilitate prioritization workshops, evaluate change requests, and protect project timelines by balancing user needs against phase-one deliverables.
• Stakeholder Management & Alignment: Serve as the primary/secondary product liaison between working level teams and other stakeholders on updates and other issues as needed.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Education: Prefer Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline (provides the background to communicate seamlessly with dev teams without needing to manage execution).
• Experience: Minimum 10 years of experience in digital product management or IT consulting, with a strong track record as an augmented expert in client-facing or public-sector engagements.
• Modernization Background: Previous experience navigating legacy-to-cloud application modernization or major system transformation projects from a functional/business perspective.
• AI Discovery Tooling: Excellent proficiency in using AI tools to streamline product discovery, generate backlog items, and run research workflows.
• Functional PM Expertise: Outstanding skills in stakeholder facilitation, user story authoring, progress tracking, and vendor alignment (hands-on technical delivery/DevOps managed separately).