Remote Director, Technical Product Owner

Summary

Join a leading consulting and professional services company as a Director- Technical Product Owner on a 6 month remote contract-to-hire opportunity. Partner with business and technology teams to lead agile squads, define product vision, and drive communication across teams.

Requirements

• Strong vision and background in digital technical product capability and market insights in B2C, B2B, and B2B2C space
• At least 15 years of technical and/or product development with minimum 10 years in a software product owner role (or a product manager or technical manager with hands on experience managing backlogs and collaborating with developers)
• At least 3-5 years of direct management experience leading product owners
• Experience building and managing high engagement digital consumer products and features on a flexible, services-based, API platform is a big plus
• Managed product backlog and story refinement meetings
• Prioritized the implementation of new features to maximize business value and set specific release timelines
• Experienced with development and project management tools like Jira and Confluence
• Ability to build relationship with external customers/partners and users to determine requirements and priorities and validate output of development team sprints
• Attention to detail and deadline-focused
• Experience or familiarity with tokenization, AI, Mobile, React, Python is a plus
• Strong user and stakeholder focus, excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communicator, comfortable having product and technical discussions with both internal and external developers and UX teams
• Experience in team environments, working in Agile teams of developers, quality engineers and project managers
• Ability to facilitate communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with senior Solutions and Product teams, Strategic Partner GTM team, internal development teams, and Agile sprint teams to create and translate business roadmaps into tangible technical implementations
• Serve as product evangelist and subject matter expert to the technical/developer community on customer needs, requirements, and future strategies
• Drive communication and vision between business, development, platform, data, and operations teams
• Uncover and understand customer needs and translate them into requirements for future sprints
• Iterate on the existing effectiveness of the organization, making hard decisions to enable team to capitalize on opportunities to impact customer experience positively
• Partner with internal and external marketing teams to translate consumer buying trends into future platform actions and benefits
• Understand upcoming technology trends and how they impact the Roadmap
• Follow competitors and conduct capability analysis regularly
• Assess and address technical risks related to the overall platform
• Facilitate the creation and maintenance of proper technical product documentation as needed with the team