Agile Product Owner - Remote Eligible

Agile Product Owner

An opportunity is available for a Product Owner to support a new initiative. This individual will be responsible for driving development efforts from a product perspective, ensuring that work is well-organized, prioritized, and aligned with business needs. The role involves representing business stakeholders to elicit, understand, analyze, and communicate business requirements for the delivery team.

Location: Charlotte, North Carolina (Partial Remote) Employment Type: Contract

Key Responsibilities

• Own and manage product workstreams for a new banking initiative.
• Organize and guide development efforts from a product ownership standpoint.
• Partner closely with development teams and stakeholders to ensure clarity of requirements.
• Translate business needs into actionable product direction and create prioritized stories.
• Support Agile delivery and product lifecycle execution.
• Serve as the day-to-day decision-maker and provide continual business guidance for an Agile team.
• Work with management to understand and validate business strategy and customer needs.
• Facilitate user acceptance testing prior to the release of application updates.

Required Qualifications

Experience: Approximately 5 years of experience in a Product Owner or Product Manager role with a strong background in product management and business analysis. Proven experience driving projects from a product perspective and organizing development efforts is required. Experience working in Agile environments is highly preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• SAFe Practitioner (SP), SAFe Agilist, or SAFe Product Owner/Manager certification.
• Experience with Jira or other SDLC/SPLC platforms.

Pay Rate: $60.00/hr - $70.00/hr

This employer is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.