Role: Technical Product Owner

Location: Walnut Creek, California/ Sacramento, California/Plano, TX( Only Local Candidates. Relocation will not work)

Hybrid – 3 day onsite

USC/GC

Duration: 3 Months (C2H) 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Takes full ownership of managing, grooming, and prioritizing the product backlog in alignment with business objectives.
• Writes detailed, clear, and actionable user stories and epics, incorporating technical requirements and constraints.
• Collaborates with development teams to ensure stories are well understood, estimated accurately, and broken down into manageable tasks.
• Serves as a key point of contact between business and technical stakeholders, ensuring technical requirements align with business goals.
• Works with architects, developers, and DevOps engineers to design solutions, validate feasibility, and ensure scalability.
• Provides technical input during architecture and solution design discussions.
• Contributes to defining and refining the product vision, strategy, and roadmap, incorporating feedback from key stakeholders.
• Conducts market and competitive analysis to inform product decisions and identify new technical opportunities.
• Drives continuous improvement of the product by leveraging metrics, user feedback, and emerging technology trends.
• Leads sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, and sprint reviews to ensure development teams are focused and productive.
• Champions Agile best practices and drives continuous improvement in team processes and collaboration.
• Manages sprint goals and timelines, balancing scope, resources, and priorities to ensure timely product delivery.
• Collaborates with the engineering team to translate complex technical and system requirements into clear, actionable product features.
• Understands and documents technical workflows, data models, APIs, and integrations.
• Evaluates and recommends tools, frameworks, and technologies that support product objectives.
• Serves as a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating technical concepts into business-friendly language.
• Acts as the primary interface for resolving product issues and ensuring alignment across development, operations, and support teams.
• Facilitates technical discussions and decision-making processes across teams to drive product delivery.
• Defines and enforces acceptance criteria for features and user stories to ensure high-quality deliverables.
• Collaborates with the QA team to develop comprehensive test plans, perform acceptance testing, and ensure product readiness.
• Leads user acceptance testing (UAT) sessions, ensuring that product features meet business and technical requirements.
• Coordinates product releases, working closely with release management, DevOps, and support teams.
• Monitors and tracks the performance of product features post-launch and implements necessary improvements.
• Provides post-release support to address technical issues and feedback from users and stakeholders.