Technical Product Owner

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.

At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individuals race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.

We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.

The Technical Product Owner will facilitate the agile practices within AI development teams, ensuring smooth collaboration, timely delivery, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Own, refine, and prioritize the product backlog
• Translate business priorities into clear sprint goals and development work
• Communicate product vision and roadmap to business and technology stakeholders
• Partner with Domain Manager to define and track KPIs, adoption metrics, and outcome measures
• Ensure delivery teams understand business value, context, and success criteria
• Partner with business leaders and IT stakeholders to understand strategic objectives and translate them into actionable, prioritized project and enhancement initiatives.
• Ensure analysts are equipped to support test planning, user acceptance testing, and post-deployment validation for successful solution rollouts.
• Lead requirements gathering, business process definition, and solution design sessions
• Translate strategic objectives into actionable user stories and acceptance criteria
• Support backlog refinement with POs, architects, and developers
• Drive alignment across cross-functional business areas
• Support UAT planning, validation, defect resolution, and post-release feedback
  
  

Qualifications

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent.
• 4+ years of experience managing AI or software development projects.
• Strong understanding of Agile principles and frameworks.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• Translating business priorities into sprint goals and user stories
• Backlog refinement and sprint planning collaboration
• Cross-functional collaboration with business leaders, IT, and domain managers
• Driving alignment across multiple business areas
  
  

Why AHEAD

Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.

We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.

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