Tech Product Owner IV
About The Position
The Technical Product Owner (TPO) is the tactical owner of a team’s backlog and capacity. While the Technical Product Manager (TPM) sets strategic direction at the capability level, the TPO ensures the team delivers the highest-value work in alignment with capability priorities. Acting as the single-threaded owner of the team backlog, the TPO bridges business, technology, and delivery execution, consolidating responsibilities traditionally split between a Product Owner and Scrum Master. The TPO champions MDF principles by fostering transparency, enabling disciplined delivery, and ensuring predictable flow of work. They shield the team from external disruptions, maintain clarity on priorities, and ensure commitments align with proven capacity.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in related field
- 7+ years of related work experience beyond degree
- Solid background on health care organizations, especially working knowledge of HR systems
- Working knowledge of Data Warehouse Systems to support enterprise analytics
- Collaborating with stakeholders to define data requirements and translate them into technical specifications
- Proficient use of SQL
Responsibilities
- Translate prioritized capability epics (from TPM) into clear backlog items (features, user stories, technical enablers)
- Define acceptance criteria in partnership with the Technical Lead (TL) and ensure backlog items are “ready” for development
- Maintain a healthy backlog sequenced based on value, risk, and dependencies
- Reject or escalate any “backdoor” requests that bypass MDF intake
- Partner with the Delivery Leader to ensure backlog aligns to actual team capacity
- Respect and enforce WIP limits so the team is never overcommitted
- Actively remove work when urgent items are added per EDC governance
- Represent the team during prioritization sessions and ensure EAC and EDC decisions are reflected in the backlog
- Ensure RTB (Run-the-Business) items, enhancements, and strategic initiatives are prioritized together within the backlog
- Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, and iteration reviews
- Ensure team goals tie back to capability and enterprise priorities
- Lead all Scrum Master activities, including facilitating ceremonies and promoting agile practices
- Partner with the Technical Lead (TL) on delivery—the TPO owns the “what/why,” at the feature level while the TL owns the “how"
- Make trade-off decisions daily if necessary to keep delivery aligned with priorities
- Coordinate dependencies with other teams and escalate blockers or capacity issues to EDC
- A point of contact for business stakeholders
- Provide transparency into progress, risks, and delivery metrics
- Ensure feedback loops with TPM, business users are fast and continuous to validate outcomes early
- Capture learnings from retrospectives and incorporate them into future sprints
- Track delivery metrics: say/do ratio, cycle time, throughput
- Validate delivered stories/features against acceptance criteria and business outcomes
- Report progress and risks to TPM, Delivery Leader, and stakeholders
Benefits
- competitive medical, dental, vision, PTO, Holidays, paid volunteer time off, 401K contributions, caregiver services
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
