Company Description

BETSOL is a cloud-first digital transformation and data management company offering products and solutions to both enterprises and consumers. BETSOL’s Data Management product lines include Zmanda (Zmanda.com). BETSOL Global IT Services (BETSOL.com) builds and supports end-to-end enterprise solutions, reducing time-to-market for our customers. Our engineering team, with its several patents, delivers award-winning products and solutions in over 40 countries. Our work locations are set against the vibrant backdrops of Broomfield, Colorado and Bangalore, India. We take pride in being an employee centric organization. Learn more at betsol.com

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Product Owner for a Contact Center Cloud Platform (CCaaS and GCP) to lead backlog ownership, prioritization, work definition, and delivery planning for cloud-based contact center capabilities. This role serves as the primary liaison between Contact Center Operations, Product Management, Engineering, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and third-party technology partners.

You will translate business demand into implementation-ready work, facilitate cross-enterprise prioritization, manage a healthy backlog, and drive successful Program Increment (PI) planning and execution. The ideal candidate combines strong Product Owner execution skills with practical experience supporting Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) platforms, cloud technologies, AI-driven customer engagement solutions, and large-scale Agile delivery practices.

The role focuses on capabilities supporting customer service operations including voice, digital engagement, conversational AI, call recording, workforce optimization, analytics, agent experience, and cloud platform enablement.

Responsibilities

Time is allocated roughly as follows:

Backlog Ownership, Grooming and Prioritization: 35%
User Story Development and Work Definition: 20%
Cross-Enterprise Prioritization and Stakeholder Management: 20%
PI Planning, Dependency Management and Agile Delivery: 15%
Contact Center and CCaaS Platform Ownership: 5%
Governance, Security and Compliance: 5%

Backlog Ownership, Grooming & Prioritization (35%)

Own and maintain the Contact Center GCP backlog.
Lead backlog refinement and grooming sessions across multiple delivery teams.
Ensure a continuous pipeline of implementation-ready work exists for engineering teams.
Prioritize features, enhancements, technical debt, compliance activities, and operational improvements based on business value and strategic objectives.
Establish backlog health standards, work readiness criteria, and prioritization frameworks.
Balance competing priorities across business, operations, architecture, infrastructure, and engineering organizations.

User Story Development & Work Definition (20%)

Translate business demand into actionable user stories.
Write clear, concise, implementation-ready user stories with detailed acceptance criteria.
Partner with CCaaS IT product owners, architects, engineers, and business stakeholders to clarify requirements.
Ensure work meets Definition of Ready standards prior to planning events.
Facilitate requirements workshops and backlog refinement activities.
Validate delivered functionality against business goals and customer outcomes.

Critical success factor: Demonstrated ability to independently create and refine implementation-ready user stories for complex cloud, contact center, and customer engagement solutions.

Cross-Enterprise Prioritization & Stakeholder Management (20%)

Serve as the primary liaison between the GCP scrum teams and technology delivery teams.
Facilitate demand intake and prioritization discussions across enterprise stakeholders.
Manage competing requests and negotiate tradeoffs between business objectives and technical constraints.
Build alignment among Contact Center Operations, Digital Product Teams, Architecture, and CCaaS Platform Partners.
Communicate roadmap priorities, delivery commitments, and dependency impacts.
Drive consensus among diverse stakeholder groups.

PI Planning, Dependency Management & Agile Delivery (15%)

Lead preparation activities for Program Increment (PI) Planning.
Facilitate story readiness reviews and planning workshops.
Coordinate dependency identification and resolution across multiple teams.
Support quarterly planning, release planning, capacity planning, and roadmap execution.
Partner with Scrum Masters, Engineering Managers, Architects, and Release Train Engineers.
Drive risk identification and mitigation planning.
Ensure alignment between strategic objectives and delivery commitments.

Critical success factor: Experience facilitating PI Planning events within SAFe or other scaled Agile frameworks.

Contact Center & CCaaS Platform Ownership (5%)

Partner with CCaaS IT product owners to identify opportunities that improve customer and agent experiences.
Support modernization and optimization initiatives across CCaaS and cloud platforms.
Drive prioritization and delivery of capabilities including voice routing, omnichannel engagement, interactive voice response (IVR), digital messaging, call recording, quality management, workforce optimization, speech analytics, agent assist, conversational AI, and reporting and analytics.
Collaborate with vendors and engineering teams to evaluate emerging platform capabilities.

Governance, Security & Compliance (5%)

Ensure security, regulatory, and compliance requirements are incorporated into delivery plans.
Partner with Architecture and Security teams on cloud governance initiatives.
Support resiliency, disaster recovery, and operational readiness objectives.
Ensure platform capabilities align with enterprise standards and controls.

Qualifications

Looking For

5+ years of Product Owner, Technical Product Owner, Product Management, or Agile Product Delivery experience, including 3+ years supporting cloud-based technology platforms.

Mandatory Skills

Expert backlog ownership and backlog grooming
Ability to independently write implementation-ready user stories
Strong cross-enterprise facilitation and prioritization experience
Experience leading PI Planning and quarterly planning events
CCaaS/contact center technology experience
Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Azure experience (GCP preferred)
Ability to manage cross-team dependencies and influence without authority
Strong communication skills with both executive and technical stakeholders
Experience supporting customer experience and contact center transformation initiatives

Skill Detail

A. Agile Product Ownership

Product backlog ownership and refinement.
User story development, feature definition, and acceptance criteria creation.
Sprint planning, release planning, quarterly planning, and Program Increment (PI) Planning.
Dependency management, Agile metrics, and delivery forecasting.
Experience facilitating cross-functional prioritization across business and technology organizations.
Experience supporting large-scale Agile delivery programs.
Proven experience leading backlog grooming, story refinement, and work decomposition.
Experience supporting Contact Center technologies, customer engagement platforms, or customer service operations.

B. Contact Center & CCaaS

Working knowledge of the following contact center capabilities:

Automatic Call Distribution (ACD)
Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
Omnichannel routing and skills-based routing
Agent desktop applications
Workforce Management (WFM) and Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Quality Management (QM)
Call recording
Speech analytics
Email, chat, SMS, and social engagement platforms

C. Cloud (Google Cloud Platform)

Experience with:

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Cloud Run
BigQuery
Pub/Sub
Cloud Functions
Vertex AI
Apigee
Cloud Storage
Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring
Identity and Access Management (IAM)

D. Integration & Engineering

Working knowledge of:

REST APIs
Microservices architecture
Event-driven architecture
Kafka and Pub/Sub messaging
CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
ServiceNow integrations
CRM integrations

E. Analytics & Reporting

Experience utilizing BigQuery, Tableau, Power BI, Looker, contact center analytics platforms, and operational KPI dashboards, with an understanding of contact center metrics including:

Service Level
Average Speed of Answer (ASA)
Average Handle Time (AHT)
First Contact Resolution (FCR)
Abandonment Rate
Customer Satisfaction (CSAT)
Net Promoter Score (NPS)
Agent Utilization

F. Soft Skills

Strong communication with both executive and technical stakeholders.
Ability to influence without authority and manage cross-team dependencies.
Strong facilitation and problem-solving skills.

Good to Have

Preferred certifications: Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM), and/or SAFe Agilist (SA).
Experience supporting one or more preferred CCaaS platforms: Five9, Quality Management (Verint), Workforce Management (Verint, Aspect, NICE).
Experience supporting customer experience and contact center transformation initiatives.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Business, or a related field. Equivalent experience may be considered.

Additional Information

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is an execution-focused Product Owner who excels at writing implementation-ready user stories, facilitating enterprise prioritization discussions, leading PI Planning activities, and managing complex cloud and contact center backlogs. They understand both the business and technology sides of customer engagement and can successfully align Contact Center Operations, engineering teams, and cloud platform capabilities to deliver measurable business outcomes.

Compensation: USD 100000 - USD 120000 - yearly