Senior IT Product Owner

EchoStar Corporation; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 83,000 - 119,000; Full time

Job summary

EchoStar Corporation in Denver, CO seeks a Senior Technical Product Owner to translate enterprise goals into actionable AI-enabled workflows and robust API contracts.

You will lead cross-functional teams, inspect RESTful APIs, oversee release management, and govern backlogs in Jira/ServiceNow to ensure predictable delivery across multiple product streams.

Qualifications

• Minimum education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Business, Information Systems, or related discipline
• Minimum experience: 3+ years in technical product ownership, software engineering, or IT product management in an agile environment
• Must have 3+ years experience with backlog management, writing technical user stories, and acceptance criteria in Jira or ServiceNow

Responsibilities

• Translate enterprise goals into technical user stories, API contracts, and AI-enabled workflows
• Lead implementation of LLM, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and Model Context Protocol integrations
• Inspect RESTful APIs and Swagger docs with engineering partners
• Prioritize and refine technical backlog in Jira/ServiceNow for multiple product teams
• Oversee release management and deployment cutovers across platforms

Skills

Technical product ownership

REST APIs & Swagger

AI applications (RAG & Model Context)

Backlog governance

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS/IS/Business

Tools

Jira

ServiceNow

Swagger

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

What Success Looks Like (Objectives):

• Spearhead the translation of enterprise business goals into robust technical user stories, API contracts, and AI-assisted workflows to accelerate feature delivery


• Champion the implementation of Large Language Models, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and Model Context Protocol integrations to elevate efficiency and achieve business goals


• Lead technical requirement evaluations with engineering partners by inspecting RESTful API endpoints in Swagger and troubleshooting architectural dependencies across deployment pipelines


• Direct the refinement, prioritization, and delivery of the technical product backlog in Jira and ServiceNow to maintain delivery predictability across multiple product teams


• Own the execution of release management strategies and deployment cutovers across cross-functional platforms, ensuring zero unexpected downtime and rapid frontline adoption

Core Skills, Competencies, and Key Experiences (What you'll bring)

• Strong skills in leading technical product ownership and agile execution within distributed enterprise systems


• Ability to inspect technical architectures, including RESTful APIs, Swagger documentation, and CI/CD deployment pipelines


• AI Application competence in identifying and deploying generative AI solutions, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Model Context Protocols


• Decision making and backlog governance expertise to evaluate technical trade-offs and prioritize competing demands


• Collaboration and communication mastery to align cross-functional engineering teams, frontline business operators, and executive leadership

Candidates must be willing to participate in at least one in-person interview.

Visa sponsorship not available for this role.

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Business, Information Systems, or a related discipline


• Minimum Experience: 3 years of experience in technical product ownership, software engineering, or IT product management in an agile software development environment


• Required Technical Skills: Must have at least 3 years of experience with
  
  
  
  • Managing and prioritizing technical backlogs, writing technical user stories, and defining acceptance criteria in Jira or ServiceNow
  
  
  • Reviewing, evaluating, or troubleshooting RESTful APIs and API documentation
  
  
  • Leading release management activities and coordinating software delivery schedules across deployment pipelines
  
  
  
  

Salary Range

Compensation: $83,160.00/Year - $118,800.00/Year

About Our Department

Our Technology teams challenge the status quo and reimagine capabilities across industries. Whether through research and development, technology innovation or solution engineering, our team members play a vital role in connecting consumers with the products and platforms of tomorrow.

About Our Company

EchoStar is reimagining the future of connectivity. Our business reach spans satellite television service, live-streaming and on-demand programming, smart home installation services, mobile plans and products. Today, our brands include Boost Mobile, DISH TV, Gen Mobile, Hughes and Sling TV.

Benefits

We offer meaningful health perks, including flexible spending accounts, HSA, a 401(k) plan with company match, employee stock purchase plan, career opportunities, and a flexible time away plan. Review a benefits summary here: EchoStar Benefits

The base pay range shown is a guideline. Individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, and competencies. Compensation is based on the role's location and is subject to change.

Candidates need to successfully complete a pre-employment screen, which may include a drug test and DMV check.

Our company is committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace where every individual has the opportunity to succeed. We are dedicated to providing individuals with criminal or arrest records a fair chance of employment in accordance with local, state, and federal laws.

This job posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days and will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.

We pride ourselves on developing and promoting talent as an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. EchoStar will accommodate the sincerely held religious beliefs of employees if such accommodations are not undue hardships and are otherwise within the bounds of applicable law. All qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with local, state, and federal law. You may redact any information that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of school/graduation from your application documents before submission and throughout our application process. EchoStar will provide reasonable accommodation to otherwise qualified job applicants and employees with known physical or mental disabilities, unless doing so poses an undue hardship on the Company, poses a direct threat of substantial harm to others, or is otherwise not required by law. EchoStar has a more detailed Accommodation Policy that applies to employees. EchoStar endeavors to make echostar.com and jobs.echostar.com accessible to users.

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