Slalom Flex (Project Based) – Technical Product Owner

Slalom; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 96,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with match

Health, dental, & vision coverage

Paid holidays and time off

Well-being reimbursement

Job summary

Slalom is seeking a Technical Product Owner for the Centennial, CO area. This project-based role requires on-site presence, close collaboration with engineers, data specialists, and client leadership to translate business intent into actionable product direction and AI-enabled delivery.

The role emphasizes governance, strong backlog management, clear specifications, and alignment of strategy, scope, and value from concept through launch. Remote work is not available.

Qualifications

• Years of product development experience in Agile environments.
• Ability to translate business intent into product direction and requirements.
• Experience applying AI tooling in delivery and discovery.
• Strong communication and leadership skills for cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Define governance cadence and delivery reporting for stakehold ers to surface data for decisions.
• Define product, pressure-test assumptions, and write clear specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Own the product lifecycle from concept through launch and iterations.
• Maintain the project context hub and use AI tooling to keep it current.
• Lead delivery teams, manage issues and risks, and provide status updates.
• Collaborate with engineering leaders, validate technical approaches, and document the toolchain.
• Apply AI workflows to support requirements, documentation, analysis, and backlog management.
• Test ideas via lightweight prototypes and iterate on product direction.

Skills

Agile delivery

AI-enabled delivery

Stakeholder communication

Product ownership

Risk management

Technical mindset

Tools

GitLab

GitHub

SonarQube

Job description

Role: Slalom Flex (Project Based) – Technical Product Owner

Location: Centennial, CO

*Please note: This role is not eligible for remote work. Employees must live within a commutable distance of the Centennial area with the ability to be onsite daily*

Our teams help organizations of all kinds redefine what’s possible, give shape to the future – and get there. We focus on high-impact projects, meeting our clients where they are to uncover business needs and deliver results. Our teams go beyond the expected to help clients move confidently through ambiguity and risk and drive more transformative outcomes.

The Technical Product Owner is a hands-on technology, AI, and Agile delivery expert dedicated to their project and client. Our job is to make sure our clients build the right thing at the right time, and build it right. AI tools, agents, and workflows are embedded into our delivery practices – accelerating discovery, documentation, analysis, backlog management, and team alignment. We are passionate, adaptive experts who continually practice and hone our craft.

What You’ll Do

As an Technical Product Owner, you’ll work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineers, architects, designers, and data specialists inside high-velocity delivery pods, and partner directly with client product owners and technology leaders to translate business intent into clear product direction, lead Agile delivery teams as they adopt AI-enabled ways of working, and keep strategy, scope, delivery health, and value connected from concept through launch and iteration. Core responsibilities include:

• Defining and managing project governance including cadence, Agile events, and delivery reporting that surfaces the data clients need to decide.
• Partnering with Product Owners to define the product, pressure-test assumptions, and produce clear specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria tied to OKRs — reframing conversations from solutions to outcomes when needed.
• Owning the product lifecycle from concept through launch and beyond — collecting feedback, measuring impact, and planning the next iteration.
• Maintaining the project’s context hub — a shared source of truth across strategy, decisions, requirements, risks, and technical context — and using AI tooling (e.g., MCPs, agents) to keep it current and accessible.
• Leading delivery teams through managing issues and risks, facilitating meetings, and providing clear project status updates.
• Collaborating with engineering leaders, validating the technical approach, strategy, and deliverables, and documenting the toolchain the team relies on.
• Applying and adapting prompts, templates, and repeatable AI workflows that support requirements, documentation, analysis, and backlog management.
• Testing ideas through lightweight prototypes and using feedback to sharpen product direction.

What You’ll Bring

You are a curious problem solver and bring several years of product development experience as a Product, Project, or Program Manager using Agile methodologies, and applying AI where it strengthens the software and testing lifecycle. You demonstrate:

• Skill in turning ideas and conversations into clear specifications, backlogs, acceptance criteria, and success metrics for iterative development.
• Ability to bridge business and technical teams, with working awareness of repositories, version control, and delivery toolchains.
• Strong investigative, analytical, and communication skills — including using AI where it accelerates research, validates findings, and sharpens actionable insights.
• Knowledge of Agile frameworks including Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP, and Lean, and the ability to adapt the framework to project needs.
• Strong delivery acumen, risk identification and mitigation skills, in complex or ambiguous environments.
• Practical exposure to AI in a delivery setting, and a commitment to deepening that capability as the tooling and our practice evolve.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices — CI/CD, automated testing, and release management — and how they shape delivery cadence and planning.
• A technology-oriented mindset and comfort with modern developer tooling. A technical degree, software delivery background, or equivalent experience is helpful.
• Able to collaborate and build trust with client engineers and leadership.
• Ability to communicate up the leadership ladder with clear narratives, and understand delivery and software value metrics.
• Contribute to the feature development and roadmaping in partnership with product managers, and lead quarterly PI planning for their respective teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Gitlab or equivalent Github, security scanning tools like SonarQube, Sneek, xray, automated integrated unit testing, AI spec driven development, containerization, software packaging, artifact repos, and automated deployment to the cloud.

About Us

Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries collaborate with clients to bring powerful customer experiences, innovative ways of working, and new products and services to life. We are trusted by leaders across the Global 1000, many successful enterprise and mid-market companies, and 500+ public sector organizations to improve operations, drive growth, and create value. At Slalom, we believe that together, we can move faster, dream bigger, and build better tomorrows for all.

Compensation and Benefits

Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that includemeaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.

Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this position, the hourly pay range is $70 to $80/HR depending on experience. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The hourly pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.

EEO and Accommodations

Slalom is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to attracting, developing and retaining highly qualified talent who empower our innovative teams through unique perspectives and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the interview process.

We will accept applications on an ongoing basis through September 25, 2026