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

Work arrangement
Yes