Remote Product Manager/Owner

Required Skills & Experience

7+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or related role supporting technical products or platforms. Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and product management best practices. Experience partnering directly with software engineering and technical operations teams. Hands-on experience using GitHub, including repository management, issue tracking, and workflow collaboration. Ability to translate business requirements into detailed technical requirements and user stories. Experience managing complex cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders. Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills. Strong analytical mindset with the ability to evaluate operational and technical issues.

Job Description

The Product Owner will partner closely with a Business Analyst and engineering teams to champion the reverse engineering of existing applications and ensure alignment, prioritization, and delivery readiness for agile sprints.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary Product Owner for a reverse engineering workstream, focused on legacy Mainframe applications
• Act as a connector between teams with differing urgency levels, keeping all parties aligned, focused, and moving forward
• Translate outputs from reverse engineering efforts into clear, well-defined user stories and backlog items
• Partner closely with a Business Analyst and reverse engineering team to refine requirements and technical flows
• Create, prioritize, and groom stories to ensure sprint readiness
• Analyze legacy logic and technical flows, including pseudo code, to understand current-state behavior
• Work hands-on with engineering teams to clarify requirements and technical intent
• Support roadmap execution where the modernization strategy is already defined
• Balance engagement across ~70% technical team collaboration / ~30% stakeholder interaction
• Document requirements, workflows, and decisions using Jira, Confluence, and Mir