[Remote] Program Manager Contractor

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Deloitte is seeking a Program Manager Contractor to support product direction for a broad personalization platform. The role will prioritize and maintain backlogs, translate business objectives into actionable delivery work, coordinate dependencies across engineering teams, and communicate priorities and trade-offs to technical and business audiences.

Responsibilities

• Prioritize and maintain the product backlog across multiple platform capabilities and engineering teams
• Translate business objectives into well-defined epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Support in Developing and maintain a working understanding of the end-to-end solution, including Data and data pipelines, Streaming and event processing, Decisioning and personalization, Business rules, Orchestration services, User interfaces and business-facing tools
• Determine which platform component and engineering team should address each business request
• Break down broad or ambiguous requirements into appropriately scoped and sequenced work
• Define clear acceptance criteria and completion expectations that minimize rework and clarification cycles
• Coordinate sequencing, dependencies, and delivery priorities across engineering teams
• Partner with engineering representatives to assess feasibility, delivery risks, and capacity implications
• Use Claude and comparable AI tools to draft stories, analyze requirements, review documentation, explore technical concepts, and accelerate planning
• Communicate priorities, trade-offs, delivery status, and decisions clearly to technical and business audiences
• Continuously refine the backlog as the platform expands into new use cases and business areas
• Represent business needs in planning sessions, demonstrations, roadmap discussions, and prioritization forums
• Balance business value, technical feasibility, platform scalability, and available team capacity

Skills

• • 4-5 years of experience in product ownership or product management
• • Strong experience with backlog management, prioritization, requirements definition, and user story development
• • Experience working directly with engineering teams across multiple technical domains, such as data, machine learning, backend services, and front-end applications
• • Solid technical fluency, including the ability to read architecture diagrams and participate effectively in technical discussions
• • Ability to connect business requirements to the appropriate technical component and delivery team
• • Demonstrated ability to convert ambiguous business needs into clear, actionable, and sequenced work
• • Experience writing acceptance criteria and completion expectations for engineering delivery
• • Practical, hands-on experience using Claude or comparable AI tools in day-to-day product work
• • Strong written and verbal communication skills
• • Ability to operate effectively in a complex, multi-team environment
• Candidates interested in applying for this opportunity must be geographically based in the United States and must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship
• • Experience with personalization, marketing technology, next-best-action, recommendation, or decisioning platforms
• • Experience in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or another regulated industry
• • Familiarity with streaming architectures, event-driven systems, rules engines, machine learning services, or workflow orchestration
• • Experience supporting platforms with multiple integrated technical components
• • Experience working in large-scale programs where requirements must be accurately routed across teams

Benefits

• Remote work

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