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Job Title: Technical Product Owner Job Location: Morris Plains, NJ, Memphis, TN, St. Louis, MO, or Dallas, TX # Positions: 2 Employment Type: C2H Duration: 12 months Key Technology: Product Ownership, Jira Job Responsibilities:

• Facilitate product backlog grooming sessions, ensuring the highest impact work is delivered soonest. Responsible for maintaining product technical roadmap and advocating prioritization at the right time for non-functional work.
• Communicate stakeholder goals and expected outcomes to the engineering/ Solution Architect/ Principal engineering team and write definition-of-ready user stories, incorporating architectural changes recommended by engineering.
• Has overall ownership of a defined capability or technical product area, including product value, cost of ownership, health, and non-functional requirements (reliability, scalability, usability, security, performance, etc.).
• Actively participate in planning sessions that form cohesive, iterative plans and ensure the team's work creates the iterative value (e.g. supports the completion of MVPs/Epics in concert with other teams).
• Proactively resolve upstream dependencies and resolve conflict effectively across teams.
• Participate in team standups, and retrospectives, facilitates dialog with stakeholders during sprint reviews/product demos.

• 5 -6 years of experience as a Technical Product Owner
• Has a sound understanding of breaking down a problem/ ask to requirements. Understands the aspects of well-rounded requirements (functional/ non-functional)
• Able to cultivate trusted relationships with Business/BAT and Technology partners to foster teamwork and a shared understanding of the product vision, goals, and priorities.
• Lead sprint planning, story refinement, and feature elaboration sessions with business and technology stakeholders.
• Able to identify, monitor and communicate technical product health metrics and KPIs and advocates for product improvements with Business/Technology partners.
• Ability to manage allocation of team capacity to ensure appropriate levels are utilized for product health improvements and reduction of technical debt (e.g. integration and deployment of tooling, test automation, etc.)
• Knowledge of agility tools (e.g., Jira) and implement strategies to optimize team performance and achieve overall department objectives (e.g., manage story aging, manage WIP, epic size/throughput, etc.).

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