Technical Product Owner

Toyota North America•Plano, TX

About The Position

The Technical Product Owner serves as the product manager and strategic liaison between business stakeholders, application teams, cloud engineering, information security, architecture, and platform engineering teams. Reporting to the National Manager, Technical Product Leadership, this role defines and executes the product vision, roadmap, and adoption strategy for Toyota's enterprise integration platforms, including API Management, Event Streaming, Entitlement Services, and Managed File Transfer solutions. The position drives platform modernization, enables self-service capabilities, improves developer experience, and helps ensure secure, scalable, and resilient integration services that support enterprise business outcomes. It partners with engineering teams to translate business needs into actionable product requirements while balancing customer experience, operational excellence, security, compliance, and technical debt reduction. The role is the primary point of contact for platform customers, identifying ways to improve onboarding, streamline governance, increase platform adoption, and enhance reliability and observability. The ideal candidate combines product leadership, technical expertise, business acumen, and stakeholder management skills to advance enterprise-scale platform capabilities and secure, reusable integration solutions.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Analytics, Statistics, Finance, Accounting, Math, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, or a similar analytical or STEM field.
A minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience.
Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional projects.
Experience with best practices for data science and data engineering.
Project management and presentation skills, including proposing strategic recommendations to management and clearly explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
Experience working directly with engineering teams in an Agile environment to ensure delivered solutions match the product vision effectively.
Extensive professional experience with Excel and PowerPoint.
Practical experience using, developing, and deploying statistical models.
Ability to engage technical audiences at the working level and translate concepts for executive stakeholders.
Ability to apply business acumen to technical and analytical challenges, understanding how data, models, and processes affect business performance, risk exposure, and strategic goals.

Nice To Haves

Experience in automotive, financial services, banking, insurance, or another highly regulated industry.
Advanced degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
Experience building and managing enterprise platform products, including API Management, Event Streaming, Identity and Access Management, Integration Platforms, or Managed File Transfer solutions.
Experience leading cloud transformation initiatives and delivering cloud-native solutions on AWS, Azure, or another public cloud platform.
Knowledge of enterprise security, governance, and compliance frameworks, including IAM, OAuth, OpenID Connect, API security, data protection, and audit controls.
Experience working with regulatory, risk, compliance, or cybersecurity stakeholders to implement secure-by-design platform capabilities.
Familiarity with software architecture, microservices, event-driven architecture, and modern integration patterns.
Experience with Agile product management practices, product discovery, roadmap planning, value stream management, and platform adoption strategies.
Working knowledge of observability, monitoring, reliability engineering, and operational excellence practices.
Experience with enterprise integration technologies such as MuleSoft, Kafka, AWS MSK, API Gateway, Okta, SailPoint, IBM Sterling, or similar products.
Experience leveraging automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), self-service capabilities, and DevOps practices to improve developer experience and operational efficiency.
Familiarity with analytics and reporting tools such as SQL, Power BI, Tableau, Grafana, Dynatrace, or similar platforms.

Responsibilities

Define and execute the strategic vision, roadmap, and priorities for enterprise integration platforms, including API Gateway, Event Streaming, Entitlement Services, and Managed File Transfer solutions.
Lead cross-functional initiatives with business stakeholders, architecture, engineering, cloud infrastructure, information security, and operations teams.
Elicit, analyze, and prioritize business and technical requirements, translating them into roadmaps, epics, features, and user stories for Agile delivery teams.
Drive modernization of legacy integration solutions toward secure, cloud-native, scalable, and self-service architectures.
Partner with engineering teams to deliver developer-centric capabilities that simplify onboarding, improve operational efficiency, and accelerate time-to-market.
Develop and evolve platform governance, standards, and best practices to support consistency, security, compliance, and operational excellence.
Work with information security and architecture teams to incorporate security controls, identity and access management, API security, encryption, and compliance requirements.
Establish and monitor platform success metrics, adoption KPIs, reliability targets, customer satisfaction indicators, and operational performance measures.
Engage with business domains and application teams to understand integration requirements, gather feedback, identify pain points, and prioritize investments based on customer value.
Promote self-service capabilities, automation, and reusable integration patterns to improve developer productivity and reduce operational overhead.
Advance platform observability and operational maturity through monitoring, alerting, incident management, and proactive risk mitigation.
Facilitate stakeholder alignment, manage dependencies, communicate product strategy, and update leadership on roadmap progress, risks, and business outcomes.
Influence strategic technology decisions while balancing delivery needs, long-term platform sustainability, and organizational priorities.
Communicate complex technical concepts and business value to technical and executive audiences.

Benefits

Professional growth and development programs
Tuition reimbursement
Team Member Vehicle Purchase Discount
Toyota Team Member Lease Vehicle Program, if applicable
Comprehensive health care and wellness plans for the entire family
Toyota 401(k) Savings Plan with a company match and an annual retirement contribution regardless of employee contribution, if applicable
Paid holidays and paid time off
Referral services related to prenatal services, adoption, childcare, schools, and more
Tax-advantaged accounts, including Health Savings Account, Health Care FSA, and Dependent Care FSA
Relocation assistance, if applicable