Product Owner
Company: S3
Location: Charlotte
Posted on: April 3, 2026
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Job Description:
Job Description Strategic Staffing Solutions is currently
looking for a Product Owner , a W-2 contract opportunity, for one
of its clients Product Owner - Outage Data & Reporting
Modernization Locations: Charlotte, NC Type: W-2 Contract Initial
assignment: 18 months, with strong potential to extend/convert
Schedule: Hybrid Location: Prefer Charlotte, NC area. In order to
convert, the candidate would need to be local to corporate
locations, including Raleigh, NC; Charlotte, NC; St. Petersburg,
FL; Cincinnati, OH; and Plainfield, IN . The 2 main skill sets are:
1) Experience with modern data architecture product management and
2) Experience with outage management, utility operations,
reliability reporting, SAIDI, SAIFI, CMI Role Overview We are
seeking a senior Product Owner to lead and govern the delivery of a
large-scale outage data and reporting modernization initiative.
This role sits at the intersection of business stakeholders and IT
delivery teams, ensuring that complex operational needs are
translated into clear, prioritized requirements that enable
successful implementation of modern, cloud-based data solutions.
The Product Owner III will be responsible for organizing,
prioritizing, and driving delivery across multiple stakeholder
groups, serving as the central point of coordination between outage
management users, subject matter experts, and IT teams executing
the technical work. This role does not perform hands-on development
but requires deep experience guiding data-centric products and
reporting solutions through delivery. Key Responsibilities • Serve
as the primary Product Owner for outage data and reporting
modernization initiatives. • Act as the central liaison between
business users, operational SMEs, and IT delivery teams. • Elicit,
define, and manage business requirements, user stories, and
acceptance criteria. • Translate outage management and operational
reporting needs into structured, prioritized product backlogs. •
Govern delivery to ensure alignment with business objectives,
timelines, and quality expectations. • Facilitate cross-functional
collaboration across enterprise IT, analytics, and operational
teams. • Support migration from legacy reporting infrastructure to
cloud-native data platforms. • Ensure reporting solutions support
key outage and reliability metrics (SAIDI, SAIFI, CMI). •
Participate in roadmap planning, backlog refinement, sprint
reviews, and stakeholder communications. • Provide clarity and
prioritization in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment.
Required Qualifications • 5–8 years of experience as a Product
Owner or Senior Product Owner. • Strong experience operating as a
traditional product owner in enterprise environments. •
Demonstrated success working between business stakeholders and
IT/data engineering teams. • Experience with data-centric products,
reporting platforms, or analytics solution s. • Strong
communication skills with both technical and non-technical
audiences. • Excellent organizational, prioritization, and delivery
governance skills. Preferred / Highly Desired Experience •
Experience with outage management, utility operations, or
reliability reporting. • Familiarity with outage metrics such as
SAIDI, SAIFI, and CMI. • Experience with modern data architectures
(data lakes, data fabrics, cloud reporting). • Exposure to cloud
data platforms (AWS or similar). • Experience in regulated or
critical-infrastructure environments “Beware of scams. S3 never
asks for money during its onboarding process.”
Keywords: S3, Winston-Salem , Product Owner, IT / Software / Systems , Charlotte, North Carolina
