The final salary or hourly wage, as applicable, paid to each candidate/applicant for this position is ultimately dependent on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate’s/applicant’s qualifications, skills, and level of experience as well as the geographical location of the position.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Sponsorship not available.

Our client is seeking a Technical Product Owner in Denver, CO.

Role Description

Responsibilities:
• Partner with stakeholders and clients to articulate solutions to business issues.
• Promote, track and ensure the adoption and success of workflow systems.
• Craft a vision for a digital product or short to long-term capabilities and convert them into a concrete strategy.
• Collaborate with internal teams to define and maintain a backlog of detailed requirements.
• Guide communication plans to ensure adoption and engagement with digital capabilities.
• Appraise ongoing enhancements and efficiencies to prioritize the highest value outcomes through data driven analysis

Skills & Requirements

Required Skills:
• 5+ years of Product Manager experience in Agile development environments in Telecom domain
• Experience as Product Manager in Cloud Infrastructure or Platform as a Service.
• Incorporating feature requests: Integrating new product features into the product roadmap.
• Define and prioritize product roadmap in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Experienced in creating Features as well as user stories for UI, APIs and backend design/business logic
• Grooming and prioritizing backlog: Organizing and ranking product backlog items based on their importance, grooming, and refinement efforts.
• Developing user stories: Creating concise descriptions of user needs for the development team.
• Organize epics, features and user stories in Jira to enable status tracking and requirements traceability
• Setting sprint goals: Determining objectives for each sprint cycle. Agile velocity. Guide agile development and maintain a healthy Product Backlog.
• Writing acceptance tests: Creating tests to confirm the product meets predefined criteria.
• Planning releases and upgrades: Scheduling product launches and updates. End client Demo, presentation, documentation skills.
• Following progress of work: Monitoring the progress of sprints and addressing issues. Continuously improve product features and performance.
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing/Operational Testing (UAT/OT) to develop UAT plans and coordinate execution across teams.
• Excellent communication, leadership, interpersonal and collaboration skills with stakeholders at all levels of the organization, including executives, business users, and technical teams.
• Knowledge of technology to better understand business needs and Driving resolution of master data pain points, assessing business impact and value for initiatives, collaborating with cross-functional teams, monitoring market trends, and ensuring the competitiveness and innovation, solution.
• Continuous learning mindset to stay updated on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices.

Benefits/Other Compensation

This position is a contract/temporary role where Hays offers you the opportunity to enroll in full medical benefits, dental benefits, vision benefits, 401K and Life Insurance ($20,000 benefit).

Why Hays?

You will be working with a professional recruiter who has intimate knowledge of the industry and market trends. Your Hays recruiter will lead you through a thorough screening process in order to understand your skills, experience, needs, and drivers. You will also get support on resume writing, interview tips, and career planning, so when there’s a position you really want, you’re fully prepared to get it.

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Hays is committed to building a thriving culture of diversity that embraces people with different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better we serve our candidates, clients, and employees. We are an equal employment opportunity employer, and we comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, genetic information, HIV-positive status, as well as any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. One of Hays’ guiding principles is ‘do the right thing’.
We also believe that actions speak louder than words.
In that regard, we train our staff on ensuring inclusivity throughout the entire recruitment process and counsel our clients on these principles. If you have any questions about Hays or any of our processes, please contact us.

In accordance with applicable federal, state, and local law protecting qualified individuals with known disabilities, Hays will attempt to reasonably accommodate those individuals unless doing so would create an undue hardship on the company. Any qualified applicant or consultant with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should call or text 813.336.5570.

Drug testing may be required; please contact a recruiter for more information.

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