Senior Technology Product Owner
$100,000–$100,000 year
HybridChicago, Illinois, United States
Job Summary
Define the vision for the portfolio and products, driving planning, prioritization, and execution of backlogs to deliver features supporting strategic goals. Coach Technology Product Owners on end-to-end business processes, capabilities, and journey maps while decomposing initiatives into Portfolio and Product roadmaps. Collaborate with stakeholders, architecture, and engineering teams to balance roadmaps for scalable, stable, and performant products, ensuring Non Functional Requirements are captured and cascaded. Facilitate business and product mapping sessions, manage vendor roadmaps and upgrades, and coordinate production deployments with post-implementation analysis. Build the Technology Product community, track KPIs, and drive adoption through retrospective work sessions using Agile methodologies and approved tools.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field (or equivalent work experience)
- Nine (9) plus years of Product Management/Product Ownership/Technical Business Analyst experience owning one or more products in an Agile, SaaS Technology environment, or other equivalent methodology
- Strong leadership and interpersonal communication skills - be able to enthusiastically convey Product and Portfolio Technology vision and roadmaps to stakeholders and effectively influence a wide range of stakeholders across the organization
- Ability to interact with all levels within the organization and work in a fast paced environment with many initiatives
- Ability to manage a variety of business, IT and vendor resources including managing vendor deliverables based on agreed contracts and statements of work
- Experience of working within an Agile environment, across multiple initiatives and circa 10+ teams
- Proficient with Agile Product Management, Business Analysis and Business Process Mapping practices and tools
- In-depth knowledge of Agile methodologies, frameworks, and tools (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, ADO, JIRA, Confluence)
- Strong analytical skills to resolve issues and determine effective business and alternative IT solutions
- Agile and innovative mind-set with the tenacity to adapt and thrive in a constantly changing environment and manage multiple competing priorities and initiatives
- Capability to influence and instill credibility in sponsors, peers and subordinates by meeting initiative milestones, deadlines and budget
- Certified Scrum Product Owner or related Product Owner / Product Manager Preferred
- SAFe Scrum Master Certification Preferred
Desired Qualifications
- Certified Scrum Product Owner or related Product Owner / Product Manager Preferred
- SAFe Scrum Master Certification Preferred
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