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This role will require a 75% Field to 25% Office blend\nRole Purpose\nThe Technical Product Lead serves as the primary product and domain interface between Software Development and the Product Service Lines (PSLs).\nThe role is responsible for converting operational needs into clear, validated, and prioritized software requirements and maintaining product continuity through development, testing, field validation, implementation, and performance measurement.\nThe position is not primarily a programming role. Its value comes from combining operational understanding, structured analysis, product ownership, and software translation.\nCore Responsibilities\nOperational Need & SME Engagement\nClarify the operational problem and desired business outcome.\nIdentify and coordinate the appropriate operations, maintenance, engineering, and field SMEs.\nDocument current and future workflows, constraints, dependencies, and edge cases.\nDistinguish scalable product requirements from individual or localized preferences.\nReconcile conflicting stakeholder input and maintain clear decision ownership.\nProduct & Software Translation\nTranslate operational workflows into functional requirements, user stories, business rules, process diagrams, algorithm requirements, and acceptance criteria.\nProvide clear functional direction to software and controls teams.\nMaintain traceability between the original business problem and developed functionality.\nSupport backlog refinement, scope clarification, prioritization, and release planning.\nEnsure requirements are operationally valid, technically understandable, and testable.\nDevelopment Interface\nServe as the primary source of product clarification for assigned software-development work.\nParticipate in planning, design reviews, demonstrations, testing, and release-readiness activities.\nCoordinate access to SMEs when additional technical or operational input is required.\nReduce the need for software engineers to independently interpret operational requirements or resolve conflicting stakeholder direction.\nValidation & Implementation\nDefine operational and functional acceptance criteria.\nCoordinate bench, integration, field, and user-acceptance testing.\nEnsure testing reflects representative operating conditions and edge cases.\nSupport field implementation, training, readiness, and adoption.\nMaintain continuity from development through operational use.\nProduct Performance\nDefine and track product-level KPIs.\nMonitor utilization, reliability, operational performance, and adoption.\nCollect field feedback and translate it into future product priorities.\nSupport documentation of operational and financial value.\nRole Boundaries\nThe Technical Product Lead does not replace Software Engineering, Controls Engineering, PSL leadership, or specialized SMEs.\nPSLs provide operational priorities, domain expertise, field workflows, and business outcomes.\nThe Technical Product Lead converts that input into structured product direction and manages it through the software-development process.\nSoftware Development owns architecture, technical design, programming, integration, technical quality, reliability, and deployment.\nIdeal Profile\nThe strongest candidate would have:\nCompletions, field, engineering, maintenance, or related domain experience\nStrong analytical and problem-solving capability\nAbility to translate operational workflows into technical requirements\nExperience working with software, 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