What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Product Owner position at Signature IT World Inc?
Job Role : Technical Product Owner
Location : Issaquah, WA (3 days onsite and 2 days remote per week)
Key responsibilities
Product vision and backlog
- Translate business objectives into a product roadmap, epics, and user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
- Own and prioritize the product backlog based on business value, member impact, effort, and risk.
- Keep the backlog at least one sprints ahead in a ready state.
- Make scope trade-offs and say no to low-value work.
Stakeholder management
- Act as the single point of contact for product decisions between stakeholders and the delivery team.
- Run requirement workshops with merchandising, digital, marketing, fulfillment, and IT teams.
- Present sprint demos and progress updates to stakeholders and the Engagement Manager.
- Manage expectations, surface risks early, and escalate decisions that need business sign-off.
Agile delivery
- Take part in all Scrum ceremonies: sprint planning, refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Plan releases around peak retail periods, promotions, and code-freeze windows.
- Define success metrics for each feature and track them after release.
eCommerce domain ownership
- Own features across the online shopping journey, such as search, product pages, cart, checkout, membership, promotions, and order tracking.
- Coordinate dependencies with integrations such as payments, inventory, pricing, order management, and fulfillment systems.
Required qualifications
- 10 years in product ownership, product management, or business analysis, including 3 years as a Product Owner on agile teams.
- Hands-on experience with B2C eCommerce platforms and the full online purchase journey.
- Proven ability to write clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and process flows.
- Strong backlog management in Jira, Azure DevOps, or a similar tool.
- Experience working directly with senior client stakeholders in a consulting or services setting.
- Comfort using data to make prioritization decisions, with working knowledge of web analytics tools.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including presenting to business leaders.