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Product Owner / Contract / Hybrid / Mettawa, IL

Kelly Services

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At a glance

Compensation
$99.05/hr
Location
Mettawa, ILHybrid
Schedule
Contract
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Product Owner will oversee technology products from ideation through implementation, partnering with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams to define scope, budgets, and timelines. The role leads technology initiatives, identifies business needs, evaluates solutions, and manages teams to deliver products while overseeing business relationships, compliance, and IT investments. This is an eight-month hybrid W2 contract with benefits and possible extension.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Technology Application Development, requiredCommunication, requiredInterpersonal Skills, requiredTrust Building, requiredActive Listening, requiredEffective Questioning, requiredBusiness Communication, requiredSoftware Life Cycle, requiredAgile Methodology, requiredCross-Functional Team Management, requiredTime Management, requiredLife Sciences, nice to haveBiopharmaceuticals, nice to haveFinancial Planning, nice to haveForecasting, nice to haveData Management, nice to haveTechnology Trends, nice to haveUser Experience, nice to haveAgile Team Leadership, nice to haveJIRA, nice to haveConfluence, nice to haveServiceNOW, nice to haveSmartsheet, nice to have

Qualifications

Bachelor's+8, Master's+7 or PhD+3 Years, required1+ Years Cross-Functional Resource Management, requiredFull-Time Work Authorization, required

Full job description

$99.05 - $99.05

In this role, you’ll oversee a portfolio of technology products from ideation through implementation, working with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams to establish project scope, budgets, and timelines. You’ll lead technology initiatives, identify business needs, evaluate solutions, and manage teams to ensure successful product delivery while overseeing business relationships, compliance, and IT investments.

This is an 8-month W2 contract with benefits and a possibility of extension! It is a hybrid role in Mettawa, IL

Required:

  • Bachelor's Degree with 8 years’ experience; master's degree with 7 years’ experience; or PhD with 3 years’ experience.

  • Experience developing and/or managing the development of technology applications, regardless of tech stack.

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a keen ability to build trust, listen, and ask effective questions with the goal of creating a scalable and reusable business solution along with forming effective partnerships.

  • Ability to interact with business leaders to demystify complex concepts without relying on technical language.

  • Thorough understanding of and hands-on experience with SLC (Software Life Cycle) phases, including Build and Run aspects of a Technology Product.

  • Demonstrable working knowledge of Agile methodology, process and ceremonies.

  • 1-2 years of experience managing or coaching cross-functional resources – employees or contract resources.

  • Ability to self-manage time and priorities.

Beneficial:

  • Understanding of or experience within the life sciences and biopharmaceutical landscape, including role of manufacturers, providers, patients, payers, distributors and policy makers.

  • Understanding of financial planning, forecasting and data management concepts and systems.

  • Demonstrable interest in technology trends and application of technology to improve end user’s experience through innovation or disruption.

  • Experience in leading and managing Agile teams and/or projects.

  • Hands on experience with JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNOW and Smartsheet.

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.

How this job compares

Set against the 1,324 open Product Owner jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$99.05/hr
  • US median$65–75/hr72 hourly ranges

This rate, $99.05/hr, is 42% above the US median midpoint ($70/hr) — in the top quarter of Product Owner hourly ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 40 open Product Owner jobs in Illinois and 1,324 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Illinois
Experience
This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience — less than three in four Product Owner postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 1,134 postings).
Education
393 of the 1,324 open Product Owner jobs (30%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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