Senior Technical Product Owner

Ascend Learning
Any Location, MA
Category Operations
Job Description
Role Overview

The Senior Technical Product Owner (TPO) is the voice of the product for our data platform, driving enterprise data, analytics, and reporting capabilities through agile delivery teams. This role is required to serve as a key conduit between business/product objectives and technical execution within the Enterprise Applications space. The purpose of the TPO role is to enable effective and efficient execution of technical product development with a clear understanding of the desired end product to meet internal customer needs, based on well-defined features and user stories.

What You Will Do

Create, balance and prioritize feature requests across multiple business groups, ensuring alignment with the enterprise data platform roadmap. Conduct work prioritization and work sequencing and manage sprints and development of new features / products; continuously map back to integrated roadmap milestones to ensure alignment on delivery.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Exceptional communication and collaboration skills; adept at working across different functions and diverse cultures. Ability to successfully translate business requirements into features and user stories, and manage/ prioritize a feature backlog.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or GED required. Bachelor's degree in business administration, information technology, computer science, related field or equivalent experience preferred.
  • 5+ years of experience in a combination of product ownership/management, consulting, Agile development or information technology (project management alone is insufficient)
  • 5+ years of experience using modern cloud data platforms and BI tools like Snowflake and Tableau; familiarity with AI-assisted analytics tools is a bonus
  • Experience working in an agile environment is strongly preferred
  • Experience working in a scaled agile framework (SAFe) environment preferred
  • Strong stakeholder management skills; experience balancing competing priorities across multiple levels of stakeholders
  • Experience in platform level product development; prior experience managing shared platform capabilities
  • Experience working in a dynamic environment, with need to adapt to changing priorities, market dynamics, and evolving business needs and guide teams accordingly
  • Exceptional communication and collaboration skills; adept at working across different functions and diverse cultures
  • Ability to successfully translate business requirements into features and user stories, and manage/ prioritize a feature backlog
  • Ability to break down complex business problems into logical and deliverable work that can easily tie back to business themes and priorities
  • Ability to ensure that the vision for 'how a product needs to perform for a customer' is embodied in the design of the product, including for technical specifications
  • In-depth understanding of Agile methodology (tools, processes, roles)
  • Ability to understand minimum viable product requirements and prioritize accordingly
  • Strong digital acumen and understanding of digital technologies

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Company paid life Insurance
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • Employee assistance program
  • Other wellness programs such as Headspace and Airvet
  • Charitable matching program
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