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Product Owner / Agile Project Manager
Duration: 6 months with extension
Location: Chicago, IL (hybrid onsite 2 days a week) Key Responsibilities Run Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, retrospectives, and stakeholder reviews.
Manage cross-functional delivery across product teams, business partners, and engineering groups.
Create and refine user stories, acceptance criteria, epics, and program backlogs.
Support enterprise Agile adoption, including preparation for PI Planning and scaled agile workflows.
Coordinate prioritization, manage impediments/risks, track deliverables, and ensure alignment with program objectives.
Develop dashboards, reports, and documentation using Jira and Confluence.
Collaborate on funding requests, requirements intake, and strategic planning with business stakeholders.
Work closely with architects, developers, QA, and leadership to ensure timely feature delivery.
Rapidly onboard to new products and teams, adapting quickly to evolving priorities.
Required Skills & Experience Strong Product Owner experience with user stories, acceptance criteria, backlog ownership.
Hands-on Agile/Scrum execution in enterprise environments; familiarity with SAFe and scaled frameworks.
Project/Program leadership experience managing delivery across multiple workstreams.
Proficiency in Jira (dashboards, sprint reporting, workflows) and Confluence (roadmaps, documentation).
Ability to work closely with engineering teams with an understanding of application development.
Strong analytical and BSA-style skills to break down epics, map business processes, and support functional validation.
Excellent Communication Skills And Stakeholder Engagement Abilities.
Fast learner able to ramp within 2 3 days in high-pressure initiatives.
Preferred Qualifications Experience Supporting Enterprise Agile Transformations.
Background working across multiple product areas in large organizations.
Training or mentorship under experienced Agile practitioners is a plus. Please feel free to reach at gaurav09@kanakits.com
Product Owner / Agile Project Manager
Duration: 6 months with extension
Location: Chicago, IL (hybrid onsite 2 days a week) Key Responsibilities Run Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, retrospectives, and stakeholder reviews.
Manage cross-functional delivery across product teams, business partners, and engineering groups.
Create and refine user stories, acceptance criteria, epics, and program backlogs.
Support enterprise Agile adoption, including preparation for PI Planning and scaled agile workflows.
Coordinate prioritization, manage impediments/risks, track deliverables, and ensure alignment with program objectives.
Develop dashboards, reports, and documentation using Jira and Confluence.
Collaborate on funding requests, requirements intake, and strategic planning with business stakeholders.
Work closely with architects, developers, QA, and leadership to ensure timely feature delivery.
Rapidly onboard to new products and teams, adapting quickly to evolving priorities.
Required Skills & Experience Strong Product Owner experience with user stories, acceptance criteria, backlog ownership.
Hands-on Agile/Scrum execution in enterprise environments; familiarity with SAFe and scaled frameworks.
Project/Program leadership experience managing delivery across multiple workstreams.
Proficiency in Jira (dashboards, sprint reporting, workflows) and Confluence (roadmaps, documentation).
Ability to work closely with engineering teams with an understanding of application development.
Strong analytical and BSA-style skills to break down epics, map business processes, and support functional validation.
Excellent Communication Skills And Stakeholder Engagement Abilities.
Fast learner able to ramp within 2 3 days in high-pressure initiatives.
Preferred Qualifications Experience Supporting Enterprise Agile Transformations.
Background working across multiple product areas in large organizations.
Training or mentorship under experienced Agile practitioners is a plus. Please feel free to reach at gaurav09@kanakits.com
