Technical Product Owner

SPS Commerce • Minneapolis, MN

13h • Hybrid

About The Position

SPS Commerce is seeking a Technical Product Owner to lead its Finance Enterprise Systems portfolio, covering FP&A, Accounting, Billing, and Finance Systems. The role owns the Finance technology roadmap across ERP, billing, planning, and data platforms, including the enterprise data lake, and serves as the central point for turning Finance requests into prioritized, funded, and delivered work. The role also works with and helps improve an AI-assisted intake agent built on Claude, Slack, Jira, and Confluence, connected to Finance’s intake tracker.

The Technical Product Owner runs the Finance Technology Portfolio OpCo, facilitates prioritization with Finance leaders, frames major platform decisions, and translates business requirements into actionable technical requirements. The role protects the integrity of data flows among CRM, billing, ERP, planning tools, and the data lake; keeps portfolio records current; partners with delivery teams; and defines and validates acceptance criteria against Finance controls and audit needs. The position is hybrid from the Minneapolis office or available fully remote to candidates in the United States and Canada.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3–5 years as a Technical Product Owner, Product Manager, or Finance Systems analyst.
• 3+ years working with ERP or financial systems in a SaaS or subscription business.
• Working knowledge of FP&A, revenue, billing, and month-end close processes.
• Hands-on experience using generative AI tools, such as Claude or ChatGPT, in daily product work.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with FP&A and other Finance leaders.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with subscription billing, usage-based pricing, or revenue recognition.
• Experience with planning tools such as Anaplan and with ERP migrations or decommissions.
• Experience with Salesforce (CRM) to ERP integrations.
• Working SQL skills and familiarity with Snowflake.
• SAFe, CSPO, SAFe POPM, or PMI-ACP certification.

Responsibilities

• Own the Finance intake funnel, bringing requests—including those from Finance’s own tracker—into a structured process with capture, duplicate checks, a vetting checklist, and disposition.
• Run the Finance Technology Portfolio OpCo by preparing the themed roadmap, open-intake rollup, and capacity views; capture key decisions, navigate risks, and drive recommendations.
• Lead prioritization with FP&A and Finance leaders, facilitate live ranking sessions, record Business Priority and stacked rank, and address blockers and unknowns.
• Shape the systems roadmap by presenting major platform decisions, including billing direction, ERP consolidation, and system decommissions, as options with trade-offs.
• Facilitate business requirements and produce fill-in requirements documents covering business rules, processes, inputs, measurement, and gating decisions, mapping answers to delivery work.
• Define requirements for data flows among CRM, billing, ERP, planning tools, and the data lake, including revenue and order classification, reconciliations, and month-end close dependencies.
• Review in-flight Finance records weekly against meetings, threads, and related tickets to ensure statuses reflect the latest agreements.
• Hand vetted work to Solution Architects, Development Managers, and owning enterprise systems teams; own the what and why while those teams own design and build.
• Define acceptance criteria and validate delivered features against Finance controls and audit needs.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package supporting health, well-being, and financial security; benefits are country-specific and aligned with local laws and market practices.
• Equity.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level