Product Owner

Product Owner

BCforward is currently seeking a highly motivated Product Owner for an opportunity in Houston, TX!

Position Title: Product Owner

Location: Houston, TX

Anticipated Start Date: 03/24

Please note this is the target date and it is subject to change. BCforward will send official notice ahead of a confirmed start date.

Expected Duration: 6+ months contract + Renewable

Job Type: [FULL TIME (>%3D40 HRS WEEKLY) [CONTRACT], [HYBRID]

Pay Range: $50 - $51/hr.

Please note that actual compensation may vary within this range due to factors such as location, experience, and job responsibilities, and does not encompass additional non-standard compensation (e.g., benefits, paid time off, per diem, etc.).

Required Skills:

• 7 years of experience.
• Define & communicate the overall vision, objectives, and goals of the product or service.
• Articulate the minimum viable product needs.
• Identify subject matter experts and create focus groups relevant to initiatives
• Contribute to the maturity, performance, and growth of the Agile team, ensuring that a definition of ready and definition of done exists at the epic and story level
• Work daily with scrum teams to accept stories and bugs for implementation
• Organize and facilitate UAT testing
• Represent the team, as needed, to external stakeholders, leaders, and other teams to ensure alignment and understanding progress of the teams' work
• Identify opportunities for process optimization and redesign that will allow us to accomplish objectives more quickly and at a higher level of probability
• Partner with cross-functional teams to build, prioritize, and define workflows and requirements
• Create dynamic partnerships and a spirit of teamwork and collaboration
• Communicate effectively with internal stakeholders to identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions and strategies
• Continually defines ways to increase customer satisfaction and deepen business relationships

Benefits:

BCforward offers all eligible employees a comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to major medical, HSA, dental, vision, employer-provided group life, voluntary life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and 401k.

Keywords:

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About BCforward:

Founded in 1998 on the idea that industry leaders needed a professional service, and workforce management expert, to fuel the development and execution of core business and technology strategies, BCforward is a Black-owned firm providing unique solutions supporting value capture and digital product delivery needs for organizations around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN with an Offshore Development Center in Hyderabad, India, BCforward's 6,000 consultants support more than 225 clients globally.

BCforward champions the power of human potential to help companies transform, accelerate, and scale. Guided by our core values of People-Centric, Optimism, Excellence, Diversity, and Accountability, our professionals have helped our clients achieve their strategic goals for more than 25 years. Our strong culture and clear values have enabled BCforward to become a market leader and best in class place to work.

BCforward 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 based on disability.

To learn more about how BCforward collects and uses personal information as part of the recruiting process, view our Privacy Notice and CCPA Addendum. As part of the recruitment process, we may ask for you to disclose and provide us with various categories of personal information, including identifiers, professional information, commercial information, education information, and other related information. BCforward will only use this information to complete the recruitment process.

This posting is not an offer of employment. All applicants applying for positions in the United States must be legally authorized to work in the United States. The submission of intentionally false or fraudulent information in response to this posting may render the applicant ineligible for the position. Any subsequent offer of employment will be considered employment at-will regardless of the anticipated assignment duration.

Interested candidates please send resume in Word format Please reference job code 236386 when responding to this ad.

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