What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Specialist position at Aezion, Inc?
Product Owner - IT
Fulltime
Frisco, TX
Working at Aezion
We are a mission-driven company guided by our values: Love, Dependability, Humble Confidence, Inclusion, Speed & Innovation. We operate with a service-first mindset and measure success through customer outcomes and delivery excellence.
Role Overview
The Technical Product Owner is the engineering-facing owner of execution readiness. This role converts high-level product requirements into build-ready stories, drives decomposition, defines workflows and technical documentation, and partners with Engineering, QA, and DevOps to deliver predictable outcomes with quality. You work tightly with the USA-based Product Owner - Customer Solutions who owns customer discovery, prioritization, and demos.
Key Responsibilities
Backlog Engineering & Decomposition (Build-ready delivery)
Decompose epics/features into detailed user stories, technical tasks, and acceptance criteria.
Run backlog refinement with engineering teams to ensure clarity, estimation readiness, and sequencing.
Maintain Definition of Ready and Definition of Done discipline to reduce churn and rework.
Technical Documentation & Workflow Definition
Create and maintain key artifacts: workflow diagrams, system flows, data mappings, integration notes, and edge cases.
Ensure non-functional requirements are explicit (performance, security, reliability, observability).
Partner with architects and engineering leads to validate feasibility and solution approach.
Sprint Execution & Delivery Predictability
Drive sprint-level execution readiness: planning inputs, dependency tracking, and scope sequencing.
Proactively unblock engineers and QA by clarifying logic, behavior, and constraints quickly.
Communicate delivery risks, trade-offs, and technical dependencies early and clearly.
Quality, Validation & Release Readiness
Define testable acceptance criteria and partner with QA to ensure strong functional and regression coverage.
Support UAT readiness with the Customer PO: test notes, known issues list, validation steps, and demo readiness.
Coordinate release inputs with DevOps/TPMs: release checklist, deployment readiness, and rollback considerations.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Act as the India-based bridge across Engineering, QA, DevOps, and Support to maintain shared understanding of scope and intent.
Ensure consistent documentation and traceability from requirements to build to validation.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
3 years as a Technical Product Owner, Technical BA, or engineering-facing product role.
Strong Agile delivery experience and working knowledge of Jira/Confluence/Azure DevOps.
Solid understanding of APIs, integrations, data concepts, and modern software delivery practices.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with microservices, CI/CD, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)
Exposure to Git/Jenkins pipelines and DevOps collaboration.
CSPO/PSPO/SAFe (or equivalent).
Core Competencies (Aezion Success Traits)
Execution ownership, structured thinking, and strong documentation habits.
Technical clarity and crisp communication.
Quality mindset and proactive risk management.
- Delivery discipline: Get it right. Make it right.