Product Owner

Location: Hoboken, NJ
Duration: 1 year (onsite)

About the role

We are seeking a Product Owner with 5–7+ years of experience in product ownership, product management, or related roles supporting software products and digital platforms. The ideal candidate will translate customer, stakeholder, and business needs into requirements, roadmap priorities, backlog decisions, and measurable outcomes. Strong customer-facing experience incorporating Voice of Customer into product direction is essential. Experience with web-based, enterprise, platform, or data-driven products is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Conduct current-state assessment and prioritize the product backlog for assigned product areas.
• Define epics, user stories, requirements, and acceptance criteria aligned to product strategy.
• Provide release and sequencing recommendations with documented tradeoffs and dependencies.
• Deliver regular status and progress reporting using delivery data, feedback, and stakeholder input.
• Summarize Voice of Customer and stakeholder research with validated problems and opportunities.
• Develop a product roadmap aligned to business priorities and technology strategy.
• Document product vision and future-state, including MRDs/PRDs or equivalent artifacts as needed.
• Ensure cross-functional alignment on roadmap themes, workstreams, and client-facing messaging.
• Provide a final summary of product decisions, process improvements, and backlog/roadmap refinements.
• Offer guidelines and recommendations to inform continued product ownership, discovery, and planning efforts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Product Ownership, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline; equivalent experience accepted. Related graduate degree or advanced certification preferred.
• 5–7+ years of experience in product ownership, product management, or related roles.
• Deep understanding of product discovery, roadmap development, backlog prioritization, release planning, agile delivery, and tradeoff analysis balancing customer value, business impact, technical feasibility, and operational considerations.