Senior Product Owner

Product Manager – AI Platform (Contract) - Contract: 6–12 months minimum, extension possible - Location: 100% Remote (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina) - Hours: Full-time, US Central Time core hours, flexible around critical releases - Rate: $20 – $35 USD per hour This is a remote contract for our US-based client. The contractor works from Mexico, Brazil or Argentina for a US team. The team works in English, so Professional Fluency in English (minimum) is required. About the Client An established US-based company providing billing, payroll and compliance technology to large enterprise customers. They are replacing an existing product with a new AI-native platform and need a product lead to take it from prototype to full production release. Role Overview You will own product for the new platform end to end, reporting to a senior executive. You'll shape the roadmap, close the gaps between prototype and launch, and keep product, delivery and engineering teams aligned. You'll also lead a small quality and compliance team and be the main day-to-day product contact for the engineers building the platform. Responsibilities - Own the product vision and a living roadmap with quarterly goals and monthly deliverables - Define MVP scope and priorities using impact and effort frameworks - Turn business outcomes into PRDs with user stories, flows and security, privacy and performance requirements - Maintain a single source of truth for requirements, acceptance criteria and change history - Work daily with an external engineering pod of four and internal engineering leads - Run backlog grooming, sprint planning and release readiness, cutting scope when needed - Validate API contracts and data mappings for integrations with payroll, staffing and finance systems - Hire and manage a QC Lead and two QC Engineers, and set the QA strategy, defect SLAs and go/no-go criteria - Plan migration, backfill and validation from the existing product's data model - Work with compliance specialists to build wage and labour compliance rules into the platform - Own auditability, including logs, lineage and reconciliation views for billing and compliance reporting - Define alpha, beta, MVP and GA criteria, coordinate phased cutovers, and prepare runbooks and training - Track post-launch KPIs and lead fast triage and stabilisation Required Skills and Experience - Proven product management experience taking a product from prototype to production - Experience writing PRDs, user stories and acceptance criteria - Hands-on experience managing engineering backlogs and sprints - Experience validating APIs and data mappings for system integrations - Experience leading or building QA/QC functions, including hiring - Comfort working with compliance-driven data, billing and reporting - Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Figma, GitHub, Postman or Swagger, and Datadog or Grafana