Technical Product Owner

$107,000 - $125,000/Yr

The Judge Group - Sacramento, CA

Full-time

Sacramento, CA

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Technical Product Owner at The Judge Group Inc. is a pivotal role responsible for developing and executing a comprehensive approach to deliver one or more major products, capabilities, services, or enhancements in alignment with the product roadmap. This position is hybrid, requiring presence in Sacramento, CA, and involves collaboration with Program Managers, Business Leaders, and a cross-functional Scrum team to ensure successful product delivery. The Technical Product Owner will manage the overall effort to deliver products and services, utilizing a strategic vision and established key performance indicators to guide their work. In this role, the Technical Product Owner will be tasked with understanding product functionality and determining the release sequence. They will prioritize and maintain the product backlog, performing just-in-time story elaboration with the development team. The position requires providing thought leadership, anticipating and understanding business needs, and mapping these needs to external market trends. The Technical Product Owner will conduct vision and validation sessions with business stakeholders, formulate investment cases, and translate business needs into technical requirements. This includes documenting and prioritizing user stories and partnering with technology delivery teams to drive execution. As the voice of the business, the Technical Product Owner will work closely with business stakeholders to recommend technology solutions that support business needs, ensuring clarity and documentation of business requirements. This role is critical in balancing the needs of business users with funding and resource availability, providing guidance and direction to the Scrum team and business partners, and ensuring close collaboration with the development team and vendor partners.

Responsibilities

• Provide thought leadership, anticipate, and understand business needs, map these needs to external market trends, conduct vision/validate sessions with business stakeholders and formulate investment cases; translate business needs into technical requirements, document and prioritize user stories, and partner with technology delivery teams to drive execution.
• Serve as the voice of the business and drive to balance the needs of business users with funding and resource availability; partner with business stakeholders in recommending technology solutions to support business needs; clarify and document business requirements.
• Define, deliver, prioritize, and manage a major product backlog with input from key stakeholders across the organization.
• Assist and guide business partners in developing business requirements, timelines, milestones, and dependencies, ensuring close collaboration with the development team and vendor partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in a Management Information Systems, Information Management, Information Technology/Computer Sciences field or related work experience.
• Three (3) years or more experience in product management, digital transformation, solution design, and business planning.
• Three (3) years or more experience in operations, engineering, agile methodologies, or solution development.
• Demonstrated experience in new product development preferred.
• Familiarity with global business practices affecting the supply chain.
• Experience with, or ability to understand, commercial implications of solutions proposed, potential areas of risk and methods to limit liability.
• Experienced in financial business case analysis to help support targeted return on investment.
• Demonstrated success in assessing, developing, and deploying new offerings or incremental enhancements.