Product Owner

1 day ago


Chicago, IL, United States Aditi Consulting Full time
Payrate: $84.00 - $85.00/hr.

Position's Contributions to Work Group:
  • This position should be familiar with project management methodologies as they will participate in multiple projects representing expertise for the application or process.
  • Strong ability to communicate across various groups and at all levels of the business that include stakeholders, business partners, customers and vendors.
  • Manages software product change requests from customers, vendors, and internal staff.
  • Knowledge of software engineering concepts that include development, testing, integrations and deployment of software or applications.
  • Experience with managing products using Cloud technologies.
  • Experienced with the business aspects and operation of digital products that include developing system software and integration platforms.
  • Thorough understanding of UAT activities, tasks, tools and techniques; ability to design, implement and evaluate acceptance tests for end-users

Typical task breakdown:
  • Responsible for maximizing the value of the product and the work of the Development Team.
  • Responsible for acting as Product Owner for larger, more complex projects with high value for the organization.
  • Responsible for creating, maintaining and prioritizing the Product Backlog according to business value for the life of the project.
  • Communicate Product Backlog prioritizes the team.
  • Act as the key decision-maker regarding what features the product will have.
  • Responsible for the vision of what is to be built and conveying that vision to the team.
  • Collaborate with Lead Engineers on decomposition of epics and features into user stories that are small enough, or granular enough, to be achieved in a single sprint.
  • Negotiate business requirements and their release dates with Product and development teams.
  • Responsible for conveying the vision and goals at the beginning of every sprint.
  • Responsible for defect management and prioritization.
  • Work closely with key stakeholders throughout the organization.
  • Responsible for making decisions on release dates and content.
  • Represent the customer, interfacing and engaging with the customer.
  • Leading the Daily Scrum.
  • Lead the sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives and sprint demos.
  • Inspect the product progress at the end of every Sprint and accept or reject the work that has been done by the Development Team.
  • Act as the voice of the team, communicating status externally.
  • Be a good role model of Scrum values; understand the framework and the roles of each team member.

Education & Experience Required:
  • Degree requirement: Degree is required with 8+ years' experience / master's degree is required to have 6+ years exp

Required Technical Skills:
  • 3+ years of experience as a technical product owner.
  • Previous experience in leading a technical team while simultaneously managing multiple projects.
  • Must have a strong understanding and proven experience in software development, including Java 17 or newer, RESTful APIs, databases, and AWS cloud development, with a focus on designing and developing cloud-native software solutions on scale.
  • Experience managing product backlogs using Agile software tools such as Azure DevOps, JIRA, Mingle, VSTS, Team Services, Rally.
  • Experience working with onshore/offshore team models.
  • Experience using GenAI tools like GitHub Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, etc

Soft Skills:
  • Excellent communication skills (spoken and written)

Pay Transparency: The typical base pay for this role across the U.S. is: $84.00 - $85.00 /hour. Non-exempt positions are eligible for overtime at a rate of 1.5 times the base hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a work week, or as required by state or local law. Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education and experience. Full-time employees are eligible to select from different benefits packages. Packages may include medical, dental, and vision benefits, health savings accounts with qualified medical plan enrollment, 10 paid days off, 3 days paid bereavement leave, 401(k) plan participation with employer match, life and disability insurance, commuter benefits, dependent care flexible spending account, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, accommodations and reimbursement for work travel, and discretionary performance or recognition bonus. Sick leave and mobile phone reimbursement provided based on state or local law.

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