Remote Technical Product Owner

IG is seeking a highly technical Product Owner to support a legacy modernization initiative with a strong focus on Mainframe systems and reverse engineering. This role sits at the intersection of engineering teams and business stakeholders, with a heavy emphasis on translating complex legacy logic into actionable stories that enable forward engineering.
The Product Owner will partner closely with a Business Analyst and engineering teams to champion the reverse engineering of existing applications and ensure alignment, prioritization, and delivery readiness for agile sprints.
Key Responsibilities
• Serve as the primary Product Owner for a reverse engineering workstream, focused on legacy Mainframe applications
• Act as a connector between teams with differing urgency levels, keeping all parties aligned, focused, and moving forward
• Translate outputs from reverse engineering efforts into clear, well-defined user stories and backlog items
• Partner closely with a Business Analyst and reverse engineering team to refine requirements and technical flows
• Create, prioritize, and groom stories to ensure sprint readiness
• Analyze legacy logic and technical flows, including pseudo code, to understand current-state behavior
• Work hands-on with engineering teams to clarify requirements and technical intent
• Support roadmap execution where the modernization strategy is already defined
• Balance engagement across ~70% technical team collaboration / ~30% stakeholder interaction
• Document requirements, workflows, and decisions using Jira, Confluence, and Miro

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• 7+ years of exp as technical product owner
• Able to work on refinements and backlogs to move project through deliverables
• Strong API – understands and can work processes around it
• Demonstrated analytical reasoning to interpret technical flows and business rules
• Experience working closely with engineering teams in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Jira
• Healthcare domain experience highly preferred
• Drives clarity and problem definition: Doesn’t just take requirements — pushes to define what problem we’re solving and why it matters now
• Thinks end-to-end and manages complexity well
• Looks beyond features to full system impact (upstream, downstream, dependencies)
• Strong at identifying and sequencing dependencies to keep teams unblocked
• Owns delivery outcomes, accountable for what happens in production — not just getting stories delivered
• Executes with high-quality backlog discipline
• Writes clear, actionable stories including edge cases and failure scenarios
• Leads cross-team alignment (not just coordination)

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.