Product Manager / Proxy Product Owner

EPAM Systems, Inc. is seeking a Product Manager / Proxy Product Owner to lead product delivery for a life sciences cold-chain IoT platform. In this onsite Boston role, you will act as the day-to-day product partner for a distributed engineering team, aligning business stakeholders, product leadership, and delivery execution around clear priorities and outcomes.

What you’ll do

• Serve as a Proxy Product Owner, managing day-to-day backlog activities and maintaining delivery focus
• Lead product discovery, define MVP scope, prioritize capabilities, and drive roadmap execution
• Convert business objectives into prioritized epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Keep the backlog ready by maintaining detailed requirements in Jira and Confluence
• Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint reviews, demos, and planning sessions
• Manage scope, evaluate change requests, and balance competing priorities across stakeholders
• Coordinate milestone acceptance activities with business, quality, and technical stakeholders
• Partner with UX/UI teams to define and optimize key user journeys
• Support pilot launches, onboarding, UAT, and product adoption initiatives
• Define and track product KPIs and business success metrics
• Use AI-assisted product management practices to improve analysis and requirements quality

What you bring

• 7+ years of experience in Product Management or Product Ownership for enterprise software or B2B SaaS
• At least 3 years delivering in Agile environments using Scrum, SAFe, or similar frameworks
• Proven experience as a client-facing Product Manager, Product Owner, or Proxy PO working with distributed delivery teams
• Strong backlog management using Jira and Confluence
• Experience defining MVPs and managing scope within modernization, transformation, or platform consolidation programs
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, and workshop leadership skills
• Ability to translate business requirements into actionable product roadmaps and delivery plans
• Working knowledge of cloud-based SaaS platforms and related topics including APIs, integrations, multi-tenancy, permissions, reporting, and data-driven products
• Experience collaborating closely with engineering, architecture, UX, and business teams

Technologies

• Azure
• Agile, Scrum, SAFe
• Jira, Confluence
• AI-assisted product management
• APIs

Compensation and location

Boston, MA (onsite). Salary range: USD 120,000 - 160,000 per year.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (Subsidized)
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter)
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability (Company Provided)
• Life and AD&D Insurance (Company Provided)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
• Matched 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Paid Time Off
• Legal Plan and Identity Theft Protection
• Accident Insurance
• Employee Discounts
• Pet Insurance
• Employee Stock Purchase Program

Nice to have

• Experience in Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical Supply Chain, Cold Chain, Logistics, or IoT domains
• Experience with regulated software environments and compliance-driven products
• Knowledge of GxP standards and validation processes
• Background in platform modernization or digital transformation initiatives