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