What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Product Owner position at SPS COMMERCE?
Description
After 92 consecutive quarters of growth, SPS Commerce is just getting started! To support our continued expansion as a company and the evolution of our product, we have an opening for a Technical Product Owner. This person will be a single-threaded leader working in direct partnership with a Manager of Technical Product Management and embedded within a software engineer delivery team(s). You will drive a cohesive roadmap and execution within one of SPS' Platform Services aligned to our Strategic Plan.
This role is based out of our Minnepolis office in a hybrid work environment, providing flexibility with remote work and in-person collaboration.
Does this sound like you?
- You are known for your ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders, including executives, customers, and the development team.
- You’re able to balance technical requirements with user needs, ensuring that the product is easy to use and delivers value to the user.
- You can inspire and motivate the development team, foster a collaborative culture, and provide clear direction and guidance.
- Your systems thinking mindset helps you understand the impact of decisions on different parts of applications.
Why SPS?
We solve retail supply chain problems by cutting through inefficiency with innovation and automation. At SPS we empower retailers, suppliers, distributors, grocers, and logistics partners to work better together with our people, our process, and our tech products. We have the world’s largest retail network, and we don’t just lead the industry, we are the industry.
At SPS, we believe every employee makes a difference. We ensure employees have the tools, resources, and training to explore new ideas and execute them. Our success comes from playing as a team and always playing to win. Careers don’t just grow here, they’re made here.
What is the day-to-day like?
The role will work closely with peers to articulate priorities and manage delivery trade-offs. As a technical resource, a TPO understands customer needs and product requirements, simplifies technical user stories and epics, and acts as a technical advisor to the product manager, product owner, development team, organizational stakeholders, and leaders. The role will collaborate and communicate daily with the software engineering and user experience (UX) teams to oversee and approve product designs, enhancements, and quality.
- Partner with technical product managers, product manager(s), builders, and software engineers to understand the market and the customers you are serving to convey that vision to engineering and other stakeholders.
- Collaborate with Solution Architects and Principals to create and manage architecture/service roadmap, ensuring complete visibility for both business and technical items.
- Work with large-scale technical products or products with many pending architectural changes
- Maintain product roadmap in partnership with the Development Manager and Domain Technical Lead to provide consistent, clear, and realistic updates to all stakeholders.
- Create user stories and acceptance criteria to provide clarity for software engineers.
- Achieve and communicate key results as committed to in the road map.
- Respond to questions from developers and clarify requirements related to the voice of the customer (VOC) and business requirements.
- Participate in scrum ceremonies including stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, grooming, and release planning.
- Drive resolution of cross-team dependencies
What experience and skills do you need?
- Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 3 years of related experience or 6 years of experience without a degree.
- Experience working in an agile development environment.
- Strong communication skills that allow you to speak directly to your stakeholders using their language and mental models.
What experience is preferred?
- 2 years’ experience in software development
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
SPS Commerce offers a comprehensive package of benefits including health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, paid time-off, 401(k), health and flexible spending accounts, stock purchase plan and more.
** EOE including disability / veteran **
