Technical Product Owner

Summary

Join Granicus as a Technical Product Owner 2 (TPO2) and oversee project execution across multiple teams, driving the realization of the cloud team roadmap. Collaborate with other teams to ensure adherence to infrastructure and security best practices. As TPO2, you will collect key performance indicators of global agile teams and present them to senior leadership and team members. This role requires a servant leadership approach, promoting agile best practices and defining the product vision. You will prioritize backlog needs, drive iteration from discovery to release, and communicate effectively with stakeholders. The position involves team ownership, active participation in agile ceremonies, and the introduction of new tools and practices. Granicus offers a competitive benefits package, including flexible time off, comprehensive health insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid parental leave, and more.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience leading platform engineers through successful product deliveries in an Agile environment
• Proven skills in measuring software engineering key performance indicators
• Experience with global engineering teams, particularly with teams co-located in India and North America and/or Europe
• Excellent communication (verbal and written) skills for interacting with all internal organization, executives and business customer groups
• Elevated level of personal initiative, integrity, and leadership
• Ability to serve as the technical leader of a distributed, collaborative, and extraordinarily skilled Cloud Ops engineers

Responsibilities

• Be a servant leader and a beacon for agile best practices
• Defining the vision: Primary owner of the product backlog for 1-2 teams
• Primary contributor in the creation of the enterprise roadmap in collaboration with other product owners, development/engineering teams
• Ownership in refinement of stories and acceptance criteria for 1-2 teams
• Define Iteration: Prioritize needs of the backlog (juggle the triangle of scope, budget, and time) at the enterprise level monthly, quarterly, yearly
• Drives Iteration: Can effectively create a product/project and take it from the discovery phase to release. Accurate assessing product opportunities and risks. Has a say in deciding whether to continue or change the existing product development path, in the case of an unfavorable trajectory
• Communication: Obtains primary buy-in from stakeholders on all major decisions and strategy and provides clear instructions and deliverables for the engineers
• Define, refine, and report key performance indicators for the software teams to provide clarity on productivity, technical health and factors that may be impeding them
• Team Ownership: 1+ team as the lead product owner
• Agile: Primary PO role in all agile ceremonies but also organize workshops with the Product’s users and Agile teams
• Toolkit: Introduces new and useful tools and practices. Jira proficient

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Scrum Professional - Product Owner
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• Experience training engineers in SDLC a plus

Benefits

• Flexible Time Off
• Medical (includes an option that is paid 100% by Granicus!), Dental & Vision Insurance
• 401(k) plan with matching contribution
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employer-paid Short and Long Term Disability Insurance, Group Term Life Insurance and AD&D Insurance
• Group legal coverage