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Join a fast-paced and collaborative technology team as a Product Manager – Quality and Release. In this role, you’ll be responsible for ensuring high-quality software delivery through testable, risk-aligned requirements, overseeing UAT processes, and prioritizing defect management. You’ll also lead the Quality Engineering (QE) platform and infrastructure backlog, helping to drive continuous improvement in product quality across the lifecycle.

**Job Title:** Product Manager – Quality and Release

**Location:** Cincinnati, OH (Hybrid, 4 days on-site required)

**Type:** W2 contract (Not open to C2C)

Key responsibilities include:

+ Translate change requests into clear, testable requirements with acceptance criteria.

+ Align QE activities with development timelines and release scopes.

+ Lead defect impact analysis and help prioritize fixes with a customer-centric lens.

+ Prioritize testing efforts based on business value and critical system flows.

+ Own and manage the QE platform backlog, including tools, environments, data, and reporting.

+ Facilitate and manage User Acceptance Testing (UAT), timelines, and stakeholder feedback.

+ Ensure risk-aligned test coverage and integrate learnings from production issues.

+ Partner with infrastructure and strategic QE teams to support test environment strategy.

+ Champion continuous quality improvement through metrics, RCA, and stakeholder feedback.

+ Collaborate across teams and time zones to drive alignment and visibility on release readiness.

+ Lead requirements gathering and refinement using agile practices and tools.

What’s Needed?

+ Experience supporting QA, testing, or product delivery in a fast-paced development environment.

+ Strong skills in prioritization, stakeholder communication, and quality control.

+ Background working with service-oriented teams or infrastructure/platform product management.

+ Experience managing inputs from multiple stakeholders across functional areas.

+ Familiarity with UAT management, defect triage, and release coordination.

+ Experience in the retail industry preferred.

+ Ability to work across distributed teams, including offshore team members.

+ Local to the Cincinnati area and able to work onsite 4 days per week.

What’s in it for me?

+ Competitive W2 contract with opportunity for contract-to-hire conversion.

+ Benefits available through Experis (health, vision, dental, paid holidays after 6 months).

+ Upskilling opportunities through Experis learning and development programs.

+ Chance to work on high-impact releases in a fast-evolving retail technology environment.

If this role interests you and you’d like to learn more, click apply now and a recruiter will be in touch to discuss this exciting opportunity. We look forward to speaking with you!

About ManpowerGroup, Parent Company of: Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells

_ManpowerGroup® (NYSE: MAN), the leading global workforce solutions company, helps organizations transform in a fast-changing world of work by sourcing, assessing, developing, and managing the talent that enables them to win. We develop innovative solutions for hundreds of thousands of organizations every year, providing them with skilled talent while finding meaningful, sustainable employment for millions of people across a wide range of industries and skills. Our expert family of brands –_ **_Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells_** _–_ creates substantial value for candidates and clients across more than 75 countries and territories and has done so for over 70 years. We are recognized consistently for our diversity - as a best place to work for Women, Inclusion, Equality and Disability and in 2022 ManpowerGroup was named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the 13th year - all confirming our position as the brand of choice for in-demand talent.

ManpowerGroup is committed to providing equal employment opportunities in a professional, high quality work environment. It is the policy of ManpowerGroup and all of its subsidiaries to recruit, train, promote, transfer, pay and take all employment actions without regard to an employee's race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.