Technical Product Owner

Role: Technical Product Owner

Location: Minneapolis, MN (Onsite)

Duration: Long Term

Job Description:

Gather, develop, coordinate, and maintain business requirements for various projects and/or systems from the initial phase to final implementation, ensuring requirements meet standards.

• Documents and improves existing process and information systems.
• Designs and executes new technology solutions.
• Fosters long-term relationships with business partners.
• Manages project tasks and schedules.
• Translate Product vision into meaningful Epics and Stories.
• Work on a variety of IT projects, either in the form of internal development or in conjunction with external vendors.
• Ability to interact with all organizational levels and exercise good judgment to recommend solutions.
• Aptitude to identify technical requirements and translate to adequate technical stories.
• Lead deep-dive technical analysis sessions, and ensure results are clearly documented.
• Assist Product Owner with prioritizing stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy.
• Assist Product Owner with backlog management, iteration planning, and grooming of the user stories.
• Assist with managing team delivery commitments and helping to remove impediments.
• Assist with the development of project definitions, cost/benefit and risk analysis, work plans, progress reports, and presentations.
• Manage several concurrent projects of varying priority and complexity, across multiple teams and multiple business divisions.
• Measure and communicate product business value and ROI.
• Enjoy working in a high-profile environment with fluid priorities and ambiguity.
• Ensuring the team produces continual and on-time delivery of value
• Minimum 7 years of business and technology analysis experience.
• Excellent communication, presentation and leadership skills.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development.
• Familiar with Agile concepts, methods (e.g. Scrum or Kanban), and supporting tools (e.g. Jira, Agility/Version One).
• Must have the ability to transform business and functional requirements into technical solutions
• Experience as a technical product owner.
• Extensive experience defining agile requirements (Epics/stories), including functional and technical in a product/services organization.
• Understanding and usage of agile metrics (velocity, burn downs) to help the team be more productive.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent negotiation skills and ability to partner with business stakeholders to prioritize backlog, as necessary.
• Creative thinker with great attention to details.