Job Title: Product Owner II
Location: Buffalo, NY
Employment: Contract (8 months)
Industry: Banking
Compensation: $60.00/hr.
Schedule: 40 hours/week
About the Opportunity:
- Lead and manage high-priority, complex projects impacting multiple businesses or functional areas
- Oversee end-to-end project lifecycle from initiation to closure
- Ensure alignment with project scope, objectives, and stakeholder expectations
Why You'll Love Working Here:
- Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability
- Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries
- People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work
- Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates
Why This Opportunity is Exciting:
- This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.
About Acara Solutions
- Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.
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What You'll Do:
- Build and own the large product or set of products vision and roadmap that aligns with the overall strategic intent and communicate them with the team and all stakeholders.
- Prioritize the backlog(s) based on the overall product vision and strategy.
- Represent the voice of the customer within the team and convey story details to the team; make autonomous decisions, quickly and thoughtfully, to move delivery forward in alignment with overall product vision and strategy.
- Write user stories and groom the backlog in partnership with the team.
- Specify acceptance criteria for each user story in support of moving the team to Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD).
- Work directly with the delivery team to create appropriate information radiators and other communication tools for internal team and stakeholder use to show progress on a large product or multiple products.
- Participate in all team activities and ceremonies.
- Use a matrixed influencing approach to work with essential business partners throughout the organization, often at a more senior level and irrespective of hierarchy or divisions, advocating for the benefit of the customer.
- Understand and engage with your customers.
- Focus on outcomes over outputs, incorporating design thinking methods and analytics to inform product design.
- Due to the scope of these product(s), these efforts are often more complex.
- Collaborate across teams and with other Product Owners to align the customer journey and dependent backlogs.
- May act on behalf of the Senior Product Owner as required by absence.
- Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls in accordance with the Company's Risk Appetite.
- Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
- Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the client Bank brand.
- Maintain client internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.
- Complete other related duties as assigned.
- No direct management responsibility, but while an individual contributor, the job holder must manage activities through influence, accountability and ownership, functioning in an agile environment.
What You'll Bring:
- High School Diploma or GED.
- Minimum of 6+ years of business, analytical, technical or product experience
- Minimum of 6+ years of backlog grooming and refinement in partnership with delivery teams
- Minimum of 6+ years of outcomefocused decision making
- Minimum of 6+ years of product vision & roadmap ownership
What Sets You Apart:
- Bachelor Degree
- Prior experience prioritizing across competing priorities and quickly-changing landscape.
- Prior experience actively seeking out multiple opinions, yet making independent decisions and influencing positive outcomes.
- Understanding of Design Thinking principles.
- Knowledge of product design and development best practices.
- Knowledge of Agile and Lean principles and practices.
- Experience working in partnership with user experience teams on product design.
- Experience developing/managing digital capabilities.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Specific subject matter expertise as required by assigned product.
Additional Information:
- Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.
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Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.
Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.
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Apr 24, 2026