**Job Title: Product Owner** **Contract Length: 1 year (Possibility for extension)** **Location: Golden Valley (Hybrid, 3 days onsite)** **Compensation Range: 55-65/hr Depending on Experience (W2 ONLY)** A Product Owner you will help define what work is important to be delivered and why. This is a cross-functional role that spans from technology capability to stakeholder alignment and storytelling. This tends to be a person that can understand complex problems and help translate those into a feasible solution on behalf of business. **Responsibilities** + Articulate and help identify the vision, benefits, and roadmap for the Annuity product capability. + Collaborate with prospective users, and across multiple delivery teams to understand needs and translate them into product requirements, user stories, and sprint/iteration plans. + Ensure the product backlog is transparent, visible and understood and stories are defined and prioritized + Understands impacts and trade-offs related to dynamic and ever-changing priorities + Oversee work throughout the entire development life cycle. + Communicates with leadership and business at all levels on work progress, roadmap updates, and risks/issues + Customer proxy responsible for working with the delivery team, Product Management, and other stakeholders - including other Product Owner **Qualifications:** + 3-5 years Product Owner Experience + Strong soft skills, can communicate effectively at all levels + Proactive + Negotiation skills + Stakeholder management + Decision making + Able to influence without authority + Self-motivator / driver + Self-organizer + Maintains a solution focus, facilitating “here’s how we can” versus “here’s why we can’t” mindset + Experience with external vendors **Preferred:** + 5+ years Product Owner Experience + Strong leadership ability, with experience coaching other product owners + Experience with the Agile framework (SAFe, Scrum, KanBan) + Knowledge of Jira and/or Polarion (epics, user stories, tasks, subtasks) + In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry, with specific long term care experience preferred If this is a role that interests you and you’d like to learn more, click apply now and a recruiter will be in touch with you to discuss this great opportunity. We look forward to speaking with you! **About ManpowerGroup, Parent Company of:** **Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells** _ManpowerGroup® (NYSE: MAN), the leading global workforce solutions company, helps organizations transform in a fast-changing world of work by sourcing, assessing, developing, and managing the talent that enables them to win. We develop innovative solutions for hundreds of thousands of organizations every year, providing them with skilled talent while finding meaningful, sustainable employment for millions of people across a wide range of industries and skills. Our expert family of brands –_ **_Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells_** _–_ creates substantial value for candidates and clients across more than 75 countries and territories and has done so for over 70 years. We are recognized consistently for our diversity - as a best place to work for Women, Inclusion, Equality and Disability and in 2022 ManpowerGroup was named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the 13th year - all confirming our position as the brand of choice for in-demand talent. ManpowerGroup is committed to providing equal employment opportunities in a professional, high quality work environment. It is the policy of ManpowerGroup and all of its subsidiaries to recruit, train, promote, transfer, pay and take all employment actions without regard to an employee's race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.