Product Manager III

Location: Westwood, MA

Work Arrangement: Hybrid – 3 days onsite / 2 days remote

Schedule: Monday–Friday

Contract: 12+ months

Compensation: $70–$80/hour

Travel: Up to 10%

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced IT Product Manager / Product Owner to lead product enablement initiatives and translate business priorities into clear product vision, actionable backlogs, and measurable delivery outcomes.

This role will serve as a key liaison between business stakeholders and cross-functional teams including IT, Data, AI, Architecture, Cybersecurity, and Delivery. The ideal candidate will be comfortable operating in a complex, matrixed environment and balancing business objectives with technical feasibility, governance requirements, and delivery realities.

This is a contract-to-permanent opportunity, with potential for extension or conversion based on business needs and performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Own an assigned product or capability area within the Product Enablement portfolio.
• Translate strategic business priorities, user needs, and operating requirements into product plans, features, and backlog items.
• Define and maintain a prioritized product backlog based on business value, risk, dependencies, readiness, and enterprise alignment.
• Develop and refine epics, features, and user stories with clear business context and acceptance criteria.
• Partner with delivery teams on planning, backlog refinement, testing readiness, release coordination, and execution decisions.
• Collaborate across business, IT, Data, AI, Architecture, Cybersecurity, and Operations teams to align priorities, dependencies, and delivery sequencing.
• Support product vision, roadmap development, and release planning.
• Ensure product initiatives align with governance, compliance, architecture, intake, and enterprise platform standards.
• Communicate product priorities, roadmap updates, delivery progress, business impact, and key risks to stakeholders and leadership.
• Define and monitor success measures, adoption indicators, and performance metrics.
• Gather user and stakeholder feedback and translate insights into product improvements and backlog priorities.
• Support launch readiness, stakeholder adoption, and continuous product improvement.
• Escalate material risks, unresolved decisions, and delivery blockers in a timely manner.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in product ownership, product management, business analysis, program delivery, or a related discipline.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments.
• Strong experience with backlog management, prioritization, requirements development, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into structured product requirements and executable delivery plans.
• Experience working with both business and technical stakeholder groups.
• Strong product ownership and prioritization skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, and decision-making abilities.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Ability to balance strategic business objectives with technical constraints and delivery realities.
• Strong understanding of AI concepts and experience working with AI-related products, capabilities, or initiatives.
• Ability to lead through influence in complex, matrixed environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with enterprise governance, intake, and delivery processes.
• Experience with Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, or similar product/delivery tools.
• Experience working with enterprise platforms, data products, or AI-enabled solutions.
• Experience in highly regulated or complex enterprise environments.
• Experience developing product roadmaps and managing products through the full lifecycle.

Work Environment

This is a hybrid role based in Westwood, MA, with an expectation of approximately three days onsite and two days remote each week.

Travel may be required periodically, with an estimated travel requirement of up to 10% for meetings at other company locations.