Senior Technical Product Owner - Backlog & Release Lead

Computer Services; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Computer Services, Inc. (CSI) seeks a Senior Technical Product Owner to own the product backlog, release cadence, and stakeholder intake for the Retail Performance Engine platform.

You will work with Product Manager and delivery teams to translate business needs into prioritized work and align the team from idea to release. You will lead discovery sessions, manage intake and triage, coordinate releases, and maintain a strong line of communication with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Six or more years of relevant experience, including four years in SDLC/Agile development and three years managing backlogs or roadmaps (Azure DevOps preferred).
• Experience working with large development teams and with APIs, web services and data integrations.
• A track record of gathering requirements from ambiguous or incomplete input and getting stakeholders to decisions.
• Comfort working with a distributed team, including offshore/time-zone overlap expectations.

Responsibilities

• Backlog and sprint ownership: Manage the backlog in Azure DevOps, break epics into user stories with acceptance criteria, plan sprints, and accept work.
• Requirements discovery: Lead kickoff and discovery sessions with stakeholders and teams; identify dependencies and data needs; write summaries and next steps.
• Intake and triage: Be primary contact for support, client managers and internal teams; convert issues into spikes, stories or bugs; prioritize against sprint capacity.
• Release coordination: Plan releases with the team, communicate release dates and code-freeze windows, prepare release notes, inform stakeholders.
• Stakeholder communication: Provide regular status updates on progress and risks; escalate blockers early.
• Roadmap and vision: Shape product goals and a prioritized roadmap balancing customer needs, business value and technical capability.
• Customer engagement: Join customer and client-facing meetings to understand needs and ensure value delivery.
• Cross-team collaboration: Coordinate work spanning multiple teams or products (loyalty/rewards, CashPlease, admin tooling).
• Continuous improvement: Maintain Azure DevOps practices, improve SDLC processes, keep backlog groomed.
• Team leadership: Mentor junior Product Owners and support modernization efforts (APIs, AI, cloud) affecting roadmap.

Skills

SDLC/Agile development

Azure DevOps

APIs and data integrations

Distributed team collaboration

Stakeholder management

Education

College degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

Computer Services, Inc. (CSI) seeks a Senior Technical Product Owner to own the product backlog, release cadence, and stakeholder intake for the Retail Performance Engine platform.

You will work with Product Manager and delivery teams to translate business needs into prioritized work and align the team from idea to release. You will lead discovery sessions, manage intake and triage, coordinate releases, and maintain a strong line of communication with stakeholders.