Technical Product Owner – Customer Technical Products

Location: Hybrid (Minneapolis, Minnesota) • Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Role

Join our client's team as a strategic Technical Product Owner, driving delivery across critical customer-facing data products and integration services. This high-impact opportunity allows you to influence multiple product domains while ensuring consistent execution, governance, and business value across a complex technology portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage cross-product roadmaps, priorities, and backlogs across Customer Technical Products domains
• Lead end-to-end delivery activities across the Plan, Build, and Run lifecycle for data products and integration services
• Support delivery across Customer Data Services, Meter Data Services, Billing Data Services, Payment Data Services, and technical build teams
• Drive project and program management processes, including scope, schedule, risk, dependency, and stakeholder management
• Coordinate delivery efforts across multiple technical teams and business functions to ensure alignment and execution consistency
• Manage vendor relationships, including vendor evaluation, onboarding, performance measurement, and accountability tracking
• Oversee financial management activities, including budgeting, forecasting, cost tracking, and funding alignment across initiatives
• Collaborate closely with engineering, architecture, DevOps, and business stakeholders to develop scalable, secure, and reusable solutions
• Provide leadership visibility through portfolio reporting, governance updates, risk assessments, and roadmap communications
• Promote delivery excellence and governance standards across the Customer Technical Products organization

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Technical Product Ownership, Program Management, Technical Delivery Leadership, or similar roles
• Strong experience delivering complex, enterprise-scale initiatives involving multiple teams and stakeholders
• Proven project and program management expertise with responsibility for scope, schedule, risk, dependencies, and outcomes
• Experience working with data platforms, APIs, integration services, or enterprise data solutions
• Demonstrated success managing vendors within multi-vendor delivery environments
• Experience managing budgets, forecasts, funding, and cost controls across multiple workstreams
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills
• Ability to lead within matrixed organizations and influence without direct authority
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery methodologies and product lifecycle management

Preferred Qualifications

• Utility industry experience, particularly within Meter-to-Cash environments
• Experience supporting Customer, Billing, Metering, or Payment data domains
• Hands-on experience with AWS, cloud-native architectures, data pipelines, and API ecosystems
• Experience working within enterprise portfolio planning, governance, and investment management frameworks
• Background leading large-scale data modernization or digital transformation initiatives
• Experience managing multiple product domains simultaneously

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field
• Product Owner, Agile, Scrum, PMP, PgMP, SAFe, or related certifications are highly desirable
• Equivalent combination of education and professional experience will also be considered

Benefits

• Extensive Medical Plans, Dental, Vision
• HSA with company contribution
• Company-sponsored Life Insurance and Short/Long-term disability insurance
• Voluntary plans including legal, hospital, accident, and pet wellness
• 401k with matching
• Paid Holidays and Paid Time Off

Pay

Competitive Compensation – $73 - $83 per hour. Final compensation is determined based on skill alignment, years of experience, and fair, market-based rates by geography.