New 
Product Owner
 Spectraforce Technologies | |
$25K to $1M.
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 United States, Illinois, North Chicago | |
 Jul 15, 2026 | |
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Job Title: Product Owner
Assignment Duration: Until July 2027 Location: Lake County, IL 60064 In this role you'll be responsible for: * Overseeing a portfolio of technology products from ideation to operation, including securing cross-functional alignment on project scope, benefits, cost, and timeline. * Proactively understand business strategies, educate business stakeholders on existing technology capabilities, and influence/develop capability roadmaps and investment. * Identifying current and emerging unmet business needs and evaluating technology solutions to balance short-term and long-term objectives. * Proposing, initiating, and leading programs that transform the focus Business function's processes or technology capabilities. * Project intake, scope clarification, epic and story grooming, estimating, generating cost and timeline plans, defining UAT and testing strategy, release management, and overseeing engineering decisions. * Supervising a matrix team of Product Analysts, Business Systems Analysts, Scrum Masters, Project Managers, Architects, Engineers, Testers to deliver technology products to the business. * All BRM (business relationship management) activities, including serving as the single point of contact for initiatives in your portfolio. * Making sure that as BTS we are consistent in applying our core capabilities to deliver technology solutions with speed, agility, and efficiency. * Identifying re-use opportunities and proposing viable pilot and MVP solutions. * Responsible for compliance with applicable client Policies and procedures. * Managing an IT investment budget of $25K to $1M. Experiences that are required for this role: Required: * Bachelor's Degree with 8 years' experience; Master's Degree with 7 years' experience; or PhD with 3 years' experience. * Experience developing and/or managing the development of technology applications, regardless of tech stack. * Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a keen ability to build trust, listen, and ask effective questions with the goal of creating a scalable and reusable business solution along with forming effective partnerships. * Ability to interact with business leaders to demystify complex concepts without relying on technical language. * Thorough understanding of and hands-on experience with SLC (Software Life Cycle) phases, including Build and Run aspects of a Technology Product. * Demonstrable working knowledge of Agile methodology, process and ceremonies. * 1-2 years of experience managing or coaching cross-functional resources - employees or contract resources. * Ability to self-manage time and priorities. Beneficial: * Understanding of or experience within the life sciences and biopharmaceutical landscape, including role of manufacturers, providers, patients, payers, distributors and policy makers. * Understanding of financial planning, forecasting and data management concepts and systems. * Demonstrable interest in technology trends and application of technology to improve end user's experience through innovation or disruption. * Experience in leading and managing Agile teams and/or projects. * Hands on experience with JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNOW and Smartsheet. | |