Product Owner

Product Owner

BCforward is currently seeking a highly motivated Product Owner in Reston, VA

Position Title: Product Owner

Location: Reston VA

Anticipated Start Date: 15th Sep 2025 - 22nd Sep 2025

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

Expected Duration: 6 months contract

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

Pay Range: $55/hr - $60/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.).

Description

Have an end-to-end understanding of your product and how it fits into the larger client ecosystem to anticipate impacts from changes in other parts of the business. Own several components of Agile team deliverables, including: requirements gathering and documentation, story & feature writing, product planning & refinement, data & process modeling, and story mapping. Source and synthesize customer discovery efforts to develop customer personas, understand customer pain points, aspirations and builds hypotheses around key problems to solve. Support software development team by communicating requirements, addressing questions and providing business background for enhancements.

Qualifications

• Minimum Required Experiences
• At least 4 years of relevant experience
• Knowledge of the mortgage servicing process and experience in the mortgage product development lifecycle, especially Escrow and Delinquency Report/Loan Defaults
  
  

Desired Experiences

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent Investor Reporting understanding and experience
• Customer Focused Data Insights
• Go to Market Experience preferred
• Exceptional Communication Skills

Skills

• Experience helping an organization to plan and manage change in effort to meet strategic objectives.
• Skilled in presenting information and/or ideas to an audience in a way that is engaging and easy to understand.
• Risk Assessment and Management including evaluating and designing controls, conducting impact assessments, identifying control gaps, remediating risk, etc.
• Communication including communicating in writing or verbally, copywriting, planning and distributing communication, etc.
• Develop communication and outreach materials for internal and external audiences.
• Influencing including negotiating, persuading others, facilitating meetings, and resolving conflict.
• Relationship Management including managing and engaging stakeholders, customers, and vendors, building relationship networks, contracting, etc.
• Product Development including designing products, developing product roadmaps, translating design requirements, prototyping, etc.
• Product Management including managing demand, releases, and backlog.

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.

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.
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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 243618 when responding to this ad.

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