Product Group Owner

Job Title: Product Group Owner

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Job Location: Mt. Laurel, NJ, or New York, NY, or Toronto, ON (2 days/week onsite)

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# Positions: 1

Employment Type: W2

Duration: Long term

# of Layers: 0

Work Eligibility: All Work Authorizations are Permitted – No Visa Transfers

Job Responsibilities

• Ensure the co‑creation and refinement of requirements (business value)
• Understand and anticipate the needs of the stakeholders and customers.
• Represent the Business stakeholders to the team.
• Understand the technical scope of the Cloud Service(s) required for your product.
• Act as primary communicator and liaison between the stakeholders and the team and ensure all channels of communication are open as required.
• Ensure that the product group is always working towards delivering the highest business value.
• Inspect progress at the end of every iteration (sprintly/bi‑sprintly) with complete authority to accept or reject work done.
• Capture stakeholder feedback during reviews to refine existing product backlog items or create new ones for future consideration.
• Change the course of the increment at the end of every iteration, as necessary, to ensure that the desired business value is delivered.
• Help the team prioritize risk mitigation and technical debt reduction.
• Ensure that cross‑product group impacts related to their initiatives are communicated to other product group(s) when applicable.
• Ensure that cross‑product group impacts that have been communicated by other product group(s) are discussed and addressed as applicable.
• Convey the initiative vision/objective and key results; and ensuring it is understood by the Pod Product Owners.
• Convey the objectives at the beginning of every release/iteration and ensure it is understood by the team.
• Generate and maintain the list of work to be completed by the pod(s).
• Write product backlog items along with acceptance criteria.
• Ensure the refinement of requirements (work) occurs so that the development team can confidently commit to the completion/delivery of work.
• Continuously prioritizing and sequencing the backlog to ensure that the team can deliver the highest business value iteratively and incrementally.
• Participate in the check‑ins, planning meetings, reviews, retrospective and refinement as determined and defined by the team.
• Make the work visible and transparent to the team.
• Mitigate identified risk, taking inputs from all members of the team and prioritizing risk backlog items appropriately.

Skills and Experience Required

• 7+ years of experience.
• Experience leading and mentoring other Product Managers.
• Demonstrated knowledge in product development, backlog management, stakeholder integration.
• Experience influencing at senior levels across matrixed structures to drive outcomes.
• Solid grounding in Cloud technologies across one or more Cloud Service providers (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Experience in using tools such as JIRA/Confluence for managing backlogs.
• Proven experience building long‑term roadmaps for complex technical products.