Senior Technical Product Owner
About The Position
The Senior Technical Product Owner will collaborate with Product Managers or the enablement team to define a clear tactical vision for product development or implementation. This role will focus on end-user experience and maintain clarity for the team to ensure successful delivery or client implementation of new and existing digital capabilities. Additionally, this role will align to a delivery team and drive the feature backlog. Lastly, this role may drive BAU support post enablement, including analysis on reported production issues, influencing correction, and optimizing processes in addressing changes to in-market requirement changes.
Requirements
- High School Diploma or GED.
- 5+ years of experience as a Scrum master, project manager, business/systems/QA analyst, or software engineer.
- 5+ years of experience in a technology field and with agile and scrum principles.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s Degree in information technology or business analysis or related field of study or equivalent, relevant work experience
- Related field certifications
- 7+ years of experience in product management, business analysis, information technology, financial services, payment, online and mobile platforms, or digital and tech platforms.
Responsibilities
- Influence the technical roadmap by identifying new features and adding to the backlog.
- Stay updated with industry developments, analyze market data, and use insights for technical decisions.
- Assist in the break down initiatives into Epics and support Feature creation sessions.
- Identify and lead optimization opportunities, increasing initiative throughput.
- Prioritize and maintain product backlog.
- Lead multiple agile teams while managing relationships with key stakeholders and leadership.
- Present product updates, gather feedback, and ensure alignment with the overall business strategy.
- Manage activities for requirements documentation, risk identification, and mitigation.
- Identify and implement process improvements to enhance product development, enablement, and/or BAU support efficiency.
- Streamline workflows, adopting new tools and methodologies, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- Build partnerships within the Scrum team, ensure stable and operational capabilities, and manage cross-functional team dependencies.
- Build partnerships across enablement and cross-functional teams, maintaining adherence to implementation timelines and standards.
- Continually look to optimize processes and the customer experience.
- Train and mentor product owners, this includes offering advice, sharing best practices and helping them develop their skills and knowledge.
- Participate in recruitment and associate engagement efforts.
Benefits
- medical
- prescription drug
- dental
- vision
- other voluntary benefits (including basic and optional life insurance, supplemental medical plans, and short and long-term disability)
- Six weeks of 100% paid parental leave
- 401(k) plan
- 11 paid holidays
- Flexible Time Off (FTO) program
- 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time (“PSST”)
- 40 hours of Illinois PSST
- 40 hours of Illinois Paid Leave
- annual incentive bonus
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
High school or GED
