Product Manager / Proxy Product Owner with IoT and life sciences /pharma supply chain domain -W2role

Role: Product Manager / Proxy Product Owner

Location: Beverly, MA (Onsite from Day 1)

Job Type: W2 Contract

ONSITE ROLE AT THE CLIENT OFFICE IN BEVERLY, MA. WORKING SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE CLIENT PRODUCT TEAM.

Description:

• We are looking for an experienced Product Manager / Proxy Product Owner to be EPAM's onsite product lead for a life-sciences cold-chain IoT platform .
• The client, a global leader in cold-chain monitoring for pharmaceutical and life-sciences shipments, is consolidating capabilities from several legacy products into one unified platform built on its existing Azure-based IoT platform . The 1-year program targets an MVP launch in November 2027 . The MVP covers new capabilities and functional requirements shipment setup, product and lane profiles, live monitoring and alarming, investigations and reporting, regulated audit trail and e-signatures, and product release and stability decisions.
• One cross-functional team delivers in two-week sprints aligned with the client's PI planning and quarterly releases , against an agreed, milestone-based scope . The client's Product Team keeps final priority and acceptance decisions; you keep the backlog ready and the product moving every day.

Responsibilities:

• Act as the onsite proxy Product Owner : manage the day-to-day backlog on behalf of the client Product Owner and make product decisions within the agreed mandate.

• Lead the product side of discovery : confirm the MVP requirement baseline, capability sequencing and dependencies, Definition of Ready/Done and the acceptance matrix.

• Turn the product vision and roadmap into prioritized epics and features ; with the Business Analysts, keep user stories and acceptance criteria in Jira ready at least one sprint ahead.

• Facilitate PI planning , backlog refinement, sprint reviews and demos with client stakeholders and the EPAM team.

• Protect the agreed scope : assess new requests, trade-offs and impacts, and route changes through change control.

• Prepare milestone acceptance with the client's product, architecture and quality/compliance owners, and drive fast decisions on blocking questions.

• Shape key user journeys with the UX/UI Designer and the client design team: shipment setup, alarm handling, investigations, release and disposition.

• Support pilot customer readiness : onboarding setup, migration priorities, UAT and launch.

• Define product KPIs and executive dashboard measures with the client.

• Use AI-assisted product practices with client-approved tools for analysis, story drafting and acceptance-criteria review.

Required skills:

• 7+ years in product management or product ownership for B2B SaaS or enterprise platforms, including 3+ years as PO/PM in Agile teams (Scrum, SAFe).

• Proven experience as a client-facing proxy PO or product lead working with distributed / offshore delivery teams .

• Strong backlog management in Jira and Confluence : epics, user stories, acceptance criteria and prioritization (e.g., WSJF, MoSCoW).

• Experience defining an MVP and managing scope in platform consolidation or modernization programs.

• Excellent stakeholder management , workshop facilitation and communication with business, technical and executive audiences.

• Good understanding of cloud SaaS concepts APIs and integrations, multi-tenancy, roles and permissions, data and reporting to discuss trade-offs with architects.

Additional skills:

• Domain knowledge of life sciences / pharma supply chain , cold chain , logistics or IoT monitoring.

• Experience with GxP -regulated software