Product Owner

Job Description Job Description 12 month contract for a Product Owner role with a leading client in Peoria, IL. APPLY NOW Title: Product Owner (Digital/Software delivery) Location: Peoria, IL Workplace type:100% onsite Hours: flexible but high preference to someone who has flexibility starting shift at 6 or 7 am CST at times Type: Contract Pay: $46-46.77/hour on w2 Length: 12 months Screenings: no tech, full panel drug and background once hired IV process: 1-2 rounds optional benefits, long term contract with ability to extend or convert to full time Must haves: Comfortable with domestic travel up to 15-25% of role Comfortable with Hours: flexible but high preference to someone who has flexibility starting shift at 6 or 7 am CST at times Bachelor’s degree/ Master’s degree ( engineering, CS and/or Communications) with a minimum with 2-4 years exp- internships can be counted as experience Strong attention to detail/great communication (written, spoken, etc) Someone who has experience with: understand, digest and regurgitate technical info and needs to a development team Experience writing features Experience writing user stories-breaking down a big piece of work (the epic) into smaller, actionable tasks (user stories) User testing experience Project resource will be working on: WSA - VL Acceleration. This Digital Product Owner will be primarily working on VisionLink Mobile requirements spanning across most of the VisionLink Acceleration sub workstreams. Position’s Contributions to Work Group : The VisionLink Acceleration sub workstream of WorkStream A (Support Segment Growth Initiatives) requires Cat Digital to accelerate VisionLink deliverables. Specifically, we need an additional resource to ensure our Mobile application requirements and designs are completed in a timely matter so we can meet our Segment partner's timelines. Interaction with team : Team interactions is 50% of the time with the local team, 25% of the time, interactions with Team in India and 25% of time working with external customers. Teams consists of roughly 7 folks. Work environment : 3 days in office with the possibility of this moving to 5 days eventually, so candidates must be able to do that when required. Education & Experience Required: Degree Required (Y/N) and number of years exp required: Bachelor’s degree/ Master’s degree ( engineering, CS and/or Communications) with a minimum with 2-4 years exp in this capacity is a HARD requirement (internship exp is allowed as well) . Soft Skills (Required) Heavy attention details Collaboration experience ( with teams, working on complex subjects and divided responsibilities amongst team members) Someone who can work independently but also enjoys collaborating with the team to find resolutions. Disqualifiers/Red Flags/Overqualifications : Choppy tenure/ consistent job hoping. Someone who is overqualified and at a senior level, they will get bored with this role. ( Example: Project manager and/or program manager)