Senior Product Owner

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Product Owner to join the delivery team of Kaldway Technology Group (KTG), a U.S. technology partner that builds and runs digital products for several clients at once, including e-commerce and consumer-health brands. You’ll own the backlog and roadmap for one or more client products, turning business goals and stakeholder requests into clear, developer-ready work, and making the trade-offs that keep delivery focused on what matters most.

This is a hands-on, client-facing role. You’ll work alongside KTG’s project managers, engineers, designers, and QA with U.S. time-zone overlap, and you’ll use AI every day to speed up discovery, refinement, investigation, and documentation — with your own judgment as the final check.

What You’ll Own

Product Strategy & Roadmap

• Own the roadmap and backlog for one or more client products, prioritizing by business impact, ROI, technical effort, and user experience.
• Define success metrics and KPIs with stakeholders, and use product data and customer feedback to adjust priorities.
• Make and communicate trade-offs — including saying no, with a reason and an alternative — so the team builds what matters most.

Requirements & Backlog Craft

• Turn fuzzy business requests into developer-ready work: epics, user stories, and testable acceptance criteria.
• Run discovery and refinement with engineering, design, and QA, and partner with UX on wireframes and user flows.
• Map dependencies and risks early across teams and products, before they become delivery blockers.

Delivery & Release

• Plan releases and coordinate rollout to production, including change control and release cycles across concurrent products.
• Support the team through delivery: champion shift-left testing, validate features functionally, and flag slippage early with options.
• Keep stakeholders informed with clear, honest progress updates and early warnings.

AI-Assisted Product Work

• Use AI daily in product work — Claude Code, Jira AI, and similar tools — to draft stories and acceptance criteria, prototype ideas, summarize context, and accelerate refinement.
• Build and improve AI workflows for the team, such as defect triage and root-cause investigation, with confidence levels and human review before anything is shared.

How You Work

• Embedded in KTG’s multi-client model. You adapt cadence, format, and tone to each client and stakeholder.
• Partnered with a project manager. A KTG PM triages and tracks delivery; you own the product side — what gets built, why, and in what order.
• Plans, not just problems. When something slips, you come with options and a recommendation.
• Evidence over opinion. You influence through data, prototypes, and trust rather than formal authority.
• Transparent and team-aware. You avoid overcommitting the team, keep the board honest, and document decisions.

Requirements

Required

• 5+ years as a Product Owner or Product Manager on digital products, with real backlog and roadmap ownership.
• Proven stakeholder management: aligning business and technical stakeholders with competing priorities, including executives.
• Strong requirements craft: epics, user stories, and testable acceptance criteria that engineering trusts.
• Experience with Scrum and agile delivery, including sprint and release planning across multiple teams or products.
• Hands-on AI use in product work (e.g., Claude Code, Jira AI), with clear judgment about when to verify the output.
• Comfort working with engineers on technical topics — defect reports, trade-offs, and system constraints.
• Excellent English (C1+), written and spoken, for daily client communication.

Nice to Have

• Experience in a vendor, consultancy, or staff-augmentation model serving U.S. or European clients.
• Building AI agent workflows, prompt frameworks, or skills and commands for a team.
• Product analytics: SQL, Power BI, or telemetry and user-behavior analysis.
• E-commerce, consumer-health, or regulated-product experience.
• Scaled agile (e.g., Nexus) and coordinating several development pods.
• CSPO or another Product Owner certification, and an engineering background (systems, industrial, or similar).

Tools

Jira · Confluence · Azure DevOps · Claude Code · Jira AI · Figma · SQL · Power BI · Slack

AI-First Product Culture

At NearShift, AI isn’t a side project — it’s how we work. KTG is moving toward agent- and skills-based workflows, and the Product Owner is central to that shift: you’ll use AI to move faster on discovery and refinement, help the team adopt it, and keep a human checkpoint on everything that reaches a client or an engineer.

Core Competencies

• Judgment in prioritization — clear trade-offs, defended with data.
• Saying no constructively, with a reason and an alternative.
• Ownership of outcomes, not just activity — you know how your work is measured.
• Clear, concise communication: the headline first, detail on request.
• Empathy for stakeholders and for the team’s capacity.
• Proactivity, continuous improvement, and AI-first thinking.

What We Offer

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary based on your experience and skills.
• Full-time employment contract with NearShift S.A.S. under Colombian labor law.
• Prepaid health plan (Sura).
• A day off on your birthday, plus the Colombian holiday calendar.
• Flexibility in vacations, schedules, and work policies.
• USD 300 referral bonus for every referred candidate who joins NearShift.
• Fully remote work with U.S. time-zone overlap, and access to cutting-edge AI tools and platforms.

Career Growth

• Long-term placement with Kaldway Technology Group and the clients it serves.
• Direct work with U.S. client stakeholders and leadership.
• A hand in shaping how KTG uses AI across its product process.
• A path to grow into lead product and product-management roles.

Hiring Process

• Intro call (30 min). Get to know each other, the role, and KTG.
• Soft skills & fit interview. Stakeholders, prioritization, saying no, and how you work — grounded in real examples from your experience.
• Product & AI deep dive. Walk us through how you use AI in your product work, and a product result you’re proud of and how you measured it.
• Final conversation with the KTG team.

About NearShift

NearShift places AI-first engineering talent from Latin America with leading North American companies — vetted, embedded, and ready to ship. We pair strong engineers with U.S. clients across full time-zone overlap, so our people work as true members of the client’s team, not an offshore vendor at arm’s length. We care about clean pipelines, data people can trust, and engineers who keep getting better at their craft.