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# Product Owner

- **Company:** Spectraforce
- **Location:** North Chicago, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Starter
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Confluence, JIRA, Business Systems, Scrum Methodology, Release Management, Strategies of Testing, Smartsheet, Data Management, Servicenow
- **Published:** November 11, 2026
- **Apply:** http://leoforce.us/Careers/Spectraforce/JobDetails.html?jobid=75f6f3ab-e0f5-4241-b06e-afdb0db0e871&OrgId=1&UserId=2044

## About the Role

· Bachelor's Degree with 8 years' experience; Master's Degree with 7 years' experience; or PhD with 3 years' experience.

· Experience developing and/or managing the development of technology applications, regardless of tech stack.

· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a keen ability to build trust, listen, and ask effective questions with the goal of creating a scalable and reusable business solution along with forming effective partnerships.

· Ability to interact with business leaders to demystify complex concepts without relying on technical language.

· Thorough understanding of and hands-on experience with SLC (Software Life Cycle) phases, including Build and Run aspects of a Technology Product.

· Demonstrable working knowledge of Agile methodology, process and ceremonies.

· 1-2 years of experience managing or coaching cross-functional resources - employees or contract resources.

· Ability to self-manage time and priorities.

Beneficial:

· Understanding of or experience within the life sciences and biopharmaceutical landscape, including role of manufacturers, providers, patients, payers, distributors and policy makers.

· Understanding of financial planning, forecasting and data management concepts and systems.

· Demonstrable interest in technology trends and application of technology to improve end user's experience through innovation or disruption.

· Experience in leading and managing Agile teams and/or projects.

· Hands on experience with JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNOW and Smartsheet.

## Description

· Overseeing a portfolio of technology products from ideation to operation, including securing cross-functional alignment on project scope, benefits, cost, and timeline.

· Proactively understand business strategies, educate business stakeholders on existing technology capabilities, and influence/develop capability roadmaps and investment.

· Identifying current and emerging unmet business needs and evaluating technology solutions to balance short-term and long-term objectives.

· Proposing, initiating, and leading programs that transform the focus Business function's processes or technology capabilities.

· Project intake, scope clarification, epic and story grooming, estimating, generating cost and timeline plans, defining UAT and testing strategy, release management, and overseeing engineering decisions.

· Supervising a matrix team of Product Analysts, Business Systems Analysts, Scrum Masters, Project Managers, Architects, Engineers, Testers to deliver technology products to the business.

· All BRM (business relationship management) activities, including serving as the single point of contact for initiatives in your portfolio.

· Making sure that as BTS we are consistent in applying our core capabilities to deliver technology solutions with speed, agility, and efficiency.

· Identifying re-use opportunities and proposing viable pilot and MVP solutions.

· Responsible for compliance with applicable client Policies and procedures.

· Managing an IT investment budget of $25K to $1M.