Technical Product Owner

Responsibilities

• Define the vision and strategic direction for the team's products aligned with business objectives and market demands.
• Create and own a comprehensive product roadmap aligned with this vision.
• Collaborate extensively with internal and external stakeholders and translate user needs into clear product requirements.
• Craft detailed user stories and acceptance criteria for development sprints.
• Manage and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring alignment with evolving requirements and business goals.
• Serve as a bridge between the engineering team and other departments, fostering collaboration and ensuring alignment on technical requirements, timelines, and priorities.
• Actively participate in agile meetings to maintain transparency on progress, impediments, and successes.
• Monitor and evaluate product progress across all stages and communicate product updates.
• Own and maintain comprehensive product documentation, including user guides, and release notes.

Qualifications

• At least 8 years of experience as a Technical Product Owner for Agile teams in Software Development environment.
• Familiarity with Scrum and Agile Software Development Methodology, with a proven track record of successfully delivering high-quality software solutions.
• Significant experience in writing user stories and acceptance criteria, maintaining and prioritizing product backlog.
• Strong technical background with good understanding of software development methodologies, solution architecture and cloud technologies.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, version control, test automation, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) best practices.
• An outcome focused mindset including process discipline and drive for timely project completion.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Agile Product Owner certification is a plus.

Work Environment

• On-site from an office in Trumbull, CT or Livingston, NJ or Fully Remote

Experience

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience

Education

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related technical field.
• Master’s degree preferred.

Benefits

As an employee of CooperSurgical, you'll receive an outstanding total compensation plan. As we believe your compensation goes beyond your paycheck, we offer a great compensation package, medical coverage, 401(k), parental leave, fertility benefits, paid time off for vacation, personal, sick and holidays, and multiple other perks and benefits.