Technical Product Owner

The Technical Product/Platform Owner plays a key role in driving vision and growth for SaaS and PaaS based platforms to support products and solutions for external and internal users to ensure we maintain our market leading position and provide superior platform solutions that delights our customers and internal end users.

Responsibilities:

• Identifies, develops and drives platform strategy and initiatives for their area of the platform.
• Work closely with Product Managers and Software Engineering teams to drive product development, sprint and release planning.
• Manages and owns the Platform backlog for his or her Software Engineering team.
• Responsible for prioritization of Software Engineering backlog from Product Management and business stakeholders.
• Performs backlog grooming, sprint planning, and release planning with Product Management and Software Engineering team members.
• Ensures internal customer validation of solutions by working with Product Management and key End Users.
• Coordinates trade-off and dependency analysis for team’s backlogs based on Product Management or Business priorities.
• Translate market requirements from Product Management teams to detail technical requirements for Software Engineering team.
• Work closely with Product Managers for development and launch of new products and enhancements.
• Strong software technologies knowledge and experience including API’s, middleware’s, front-end applications, etc.
• Lead requirements analysis and verification to ensure requirements meet business needs, are complete, consistent and clear.
• Propose innovative solutions for new products or product enhancements based on gathered requirements; while working with end users, architects, product managers and Software Engineering team members to refine proposed solutions.
• Work with end users and technology teams to analyze and prioritize product requirements into a platform backlog and assist in creating work breakdown deliverables.
• Create application mock-ups to be used in technical requirement documentation.
• Write and help coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) plans and test cases and/or queries in PL/SQL to be used in functional testing and integration testing to validate and verify product performance and functionality, as well as execute test cases as needed.
• Act as a liaison between the business end users, Product Managers and Software Development Teams.
• Assist in the preparation and delivery of end user documents, training materials, and user demos.
• May apply project management skills to develop work plans and manage and track progress, resources, timelines and issues for the on-time and on-budget delivery of small development tasks.

• 7-10 years of experience in enterprise-level technical product/platform management role.
• Experience in business analysis to include creating business and functional requirement documentation.
• Experience managing and interacting with third party technology providers and establishing processes for staying in coordination with new releases.
• Experience developing mission-critical enterprise software and high-volume transaction systems.
• Facilitative leadership experience as well as experience working in matrix and agile environment.
• Excellent interviewing, listening, observational, analytical and organizational skills.
• Excellent writing and communication skills.
• Ability to communicate and work effectively with cross functional teams across the organization.
• Demonstrated understanding of web services, API’s, and associated interchange formats.
• Preference of former technical role to include software engineering, business applications or quality assurance software testing.

In exchange for your expertise, HireRight offers an excellent employee benefits package which includes:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Paid Life/AD&D Insurance
• Voluntary Life Insurance
• Short- & Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Generous Vacation and Sick Program
• Education Assistance Program
• Business Casual Attire
• Generous Referral Program
• Employee Discounts and Rewards
• And much more!