Technical Product Owner
Select Minds
2 days ago
Full-time
Remote
United States
$70 - $80 USD hourly
Benefits:
- REMOTE
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity for advancement
Technical Product Owner
Location:Remote
Job Type: W2 Contract/ FTE
Experience Required: 6+ Years (as Tech Product Owner)
Overall Experience : 10+ years
Compensation will be commensurate with experience, qualifications, and technical expertise.
We’re especially interested in professionals who have progressed from a technical background such as:
Software Engineer → Technical Lead → Solutions Architect → Technical Product Owner
We are looking for an experienced Technical Product Owner to lead product development initiatives in a complex enterprise technology environment.
This position requires someone who can work comfortably at both the executive and engineering levels. You will partner with CTO-level leadership, business stakeholders, architects, engineers, product teams, design, and QA to translate strategic goals into actionable product requirements and successful technology delivery.
The right candidate will have strong technical knowledge, excellent communication skills, and the ability to make sound decisions around architecture, priorities, dependencies, and delivery.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Partner with the CTO Office, engineering leadership, business stakeholders, product, design, and QA.
- Communicate technical decisions, trade-offs, risks, and roadmap progress to executive leadership.
- Translate business and technical requirements into detailed user stories and technical specifications.
- Own and prioritize the technical product backlog.
- Define clear and testable acceptance criteria.
- Lead backlog refinement and grooming sessions.
- Maintain a strong Definition of Ready.
- Manage cross-functional dependencies and technical blockers.
- Work closely with engineering and QA teams to ensure quality implementations and releases.
- Support sprint planning and milestone execution.
- Track product telemetry, operational metrics, and stakeholder feedback.
- Identify opportunities for continuous product improvement.
- Ensure delivered solutions provide measurable user, system, and business value.
Qualifications:
- 6+ years of experience in Technical Product Management or Product Ownership
- Experience working with complex enterprise software, infrastructure, cloud, or platform products.
- Strong experience communicating with and presenting to CTO/VP-level executives.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
- Strong understanding of modern software architecture, including:
- Microservices
- Cloud-native architecture
- APIs
- Distributed systems
- Advanced knowledge of Scrum and Kanban.
- Experience using JIRA and Confluence
- Ability to create clear, testable acceptance criteria using approaches such as BDD / Given-When-Then.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to independently assess technical dependencies, trade-offs, risks, and resource constraints.
Nice to Have
- Experience working with or alongside global enterprise technology companies such as HPE.
- Previous background as a Software Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Technical Lead
- CSPO or SAFe POPM certification.
- Experience transitioning from engineering/architecture into Product Ownership.
This is a 100% remote position working with a distributed team. Candidates should be comfortable working independently and communicating effectively in an asynchronous remote environment.
Location:Remote
Job Type: W2 Contract/ FTE
Experience Required: 6+ Years (as Tech Product Owner)
Overall Experience : 10+ years
Compensation will be commensurate with experience, qualifications, and technical expertise.
We’re especially interested in professionals who have progressed from a technical background such as:
Software Engineer → Technical Lead → Solutions Architect → Technical Product Owner
We are looking for an experienced Technical Product Owner to lead product development initiatives in a complex enterprise technology environment.
This position requires someone who can work comfortably at both the executive and engineering levels. You will partner with CTO-level leadership, business stakeholders, architects, engineers, product teams, design, and QA to translate strategic goals into actionable product requirements and successful technology delivery.
The right candidate will have strong technical knowledge, excellent communication skills, and the ability to make sound decisions around architecture, priorities, dependencies, and delivery.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Partner with the CTO Office, engineering leadership, business stakeholders, product, design, and QA.
- Communicate technical decisions, trade-offs, risks, and roadmap progress to executive leadership.
- Translate business and technical requirements into detailed user stories and technical specifications.
- Own and prioritize the technical product backlog.
- Define clear and testable acceptance criteria.
- Lead backlog refinement and grooming sessions.
- Maintain a strong Definition of Ready.
- Manage cross-functional dependencies and technical blockers.
- Work closely with engineering and QA teams to ensure quality implementations and releases.
- Support sprint planning and milestone execution.
- Track product telemetry, operational metrics, and stakeholder feedback.
- Identify opportunities for continuous product improvement.
- Ensure delivered solutions provide measurable user, system, and business value.
Qualifications:
- 6+ years of experience in Technical Product Management or Product Ownership
- Experience working with complex enterprise software, infrastructure, cloud, or platform products.
- Strong experience communicating with and presenting to CTO/VP-level executives.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
- Strong understanding of modern software architecture, including:
- Microservices
- Cloud-native architecture
- APIs
- Distributed systems
- Advanced knowledge of Scrum and Kanban.
- Experience using JIRA and Confluence
- Ability to create clear, testable acceptance criteria using approaches such as BDD / Given-When-Then.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to independently assess technical dependencies, trade-offs, risks, and resource constraints.
Nice to Have
- Experience working with or alongside global enterprise technology companies such as HPE.
- Previous background as a Software Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Technical Lead
- CSPO or SAFe POPM certification.
- Experience transitioning from engineering/architecture into Product Ownership.
This is a 100% remote position working with a distributed team. Candidates should be comfortable working independently and communicating effectively in an asynchronous remote environment.
This is a remote position.
Compensation: $70.00 - $80.00 per hour
About Us
We work to deliver profitability in your business – with effective communication, consulting, and interactive solutions. Following an Agile Work Approach, we make sure you get the ideal solutions at minimum expenses.
Work Approach
Our Philosophy
Our Philosophy starts-and-ends at the Client-first approach. Be it understanding your business requirements to choosing the right technologies, we work as a collective team that takes all the possible steps to grow continuously towards our common goal.
Our Philosophy starts-and-ends at the Client-first approach. Be it understanding your business requirements to choosing the right technologies, we work as a collective team that takes all the possible steps to grow continuously towards our common goal.
Work Policy
We promote a collaborative work environment. We involve everyone working in the organization in community decisions and encourage them to think from a broader perspective. Our work process promotes flexibility and we maintain a high level of discipline at different levels of execution.
The Future
SelectMinds have years of experience in the domain helps us understand the need-of-the-hour better. This understanding drives us to a better future with every minute ticking. We believe we will be taking off major businesses from their flagship positions, with the products we are eyeing today.