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# Product Owner

- **Company:** BC Forward
- **Location:** Wilmington, DE, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $106,080.0 - $114,400.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Business Systems, Scrum Methodology, System Testing
- **Published:** August 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jofdav.com/jobs/59149636-product-owner

## About the Role

We are seeking a Product Owner to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in backlog and sprint ownership, requirements elicitation and story shaping, and cross-functional coordination and a proven ability to translate business needs into prioritized, ready work that ships predictably., * End-to-end sprint and backlog ownership with evidence of predictable delivery and risk management.

 * Strong story shaping and requirements quality, including user stories, acceptance criteria, slicing, and dependency mapping.
 * Discovery skills that translate into prioritized backlogs with measurable outcomes and success metrics.
 * Clear communication and influence across stakeholders without direct authority, including effective sprint ceremonies.
 * 3-6 years of relevant business analysis or product-focused experience in agile settings.

Preferred Skills:

 * Experience coordinating intake, refinement, sprint planning, execution, and release with engineering and QA.
 * Background in systems testing and UAT management with traceable acceptance criteria to delivery.

## Description

* Perform and coordinate analysis and design of business systems, from discovery through delivery.
 * Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of customer needs from business and technical perspectives.
 * Capture business requirements and see them through implementation with engineering and QA partners.
 * Develop, execute, and coordinate systems testing with clear acceptance criteria and Definition of Done.
 * Act as a liaison between business user groups and technical systems teams, aligning scope and timing.
 * Own sprint ceremonies and backlog health, keeping work unblocked and prioritized for upcoming sprints.


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