Sr Technical Product Manager
What You'll Do:
A successful Sr Technical Product Owner to serve as the connective layer between product strategy, business outcomes, and engineering execution. This role owns the “what” and “why” for a critical portfolio of products, ensuring ideas are translated into clear, technically sound, and outcome-driven requirements that enable predictable, high-quality delivery.
The Senior Technical Product Owner works closely with Product, Engineering, Architecture, QA, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable and secure solutions that drive revenue growth, customer experience improvements, and operational efficiency. This role requires strong technical judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to balance innovation, platform health, and delivery confidence.
Responsibilities:
Own Product Definition & Backlog Quality: Act as the voice of the customer, synthesizing internal and external input to define clear market problems and product outcomes. Translate product strategy and business requirements into well-structured epics, features, and user stories with precise, testable acceptance criteria and a clear definition of “done.” Own and continuously refine the product backlog, maintaining clarity, readiness, and priority alignment.
Drive Alignment Between Vision and Execution: Partner closely with Engineering and Architecture to ensure solutions align with scalable, event-driven, and secure system designs. Clearly communicate priorities, context, constraints, and expected outcomes to development teams to ensure alignment between product intent and delivery execution. Evaluate tradeoffs across customer value, technical feasibility, delivery risk, and long-term platform health.
Enable Predictable, High-Quality Delivery: Lead iteration planning and backlog refinement, supporting agile workflows in a pragmatic, outcome-focused way. Proactively identify and manage risks, dependencies, and blockers that could impact delivery timelines or product outcomes. Champion AI, automated testing strategies, reuse, repeatability, and secure-by-design practices.
Measure Outcomes & Evolve the Roadmap: Track product performance and delivery metrics to assess value realization, delivery predictability, and quality. Use data and feedback to inform roadmap adjustments and prioritization decisions. Balance new feature development with defect resolution and technical debt reduction.
Stakeholder Leadership & Influence: Serve as a trusted subject matter expert and product ambassador with internal and external stakeholders. Build strong cross-functional relationships to ensure alignment on roadmap priorities and delivery expectations. Mentor and support others in modern product management and agile delivery practices.
What You Will Need to be Successful:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Technology, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
5+ years of experience as a Technical Product Owner, Product Owner, Software Engineer, or similar role in agile environments
What You May Need to be Successful
Experience with criminal data source fulfillment or regulated data environments highly desired
Familiarity with AI, API-architected and event-driven systems
Comfort operating in ambiguous environments and making informed decisions with incomplete data
Strong technical acumen with the ability to engage in conversations around APIs, system architecture, integrations, and cloud-native ecosystems
Demonstrated ability to translate complex business problems into clear, actionable technical requirements
Proven experience balancing feature delivery with platform health, scalability, and security considerations
Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences
Customer-focused, results-oriented, and biased toward learning and iteration
Collaborative, accountable, and comfortable leading without authority
Analytical thinker with strong prioritization and decision-making skills
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