Slalom Flex (Project Based) - Technical Product Owner

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

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with match

Health, dental, & vision coverage

Parental leave

Paid holidays

Short/long-term disability

Annual $350 wellness reimbursement

Job summary

Slalom, LLC is seeking a Technical Product Owner for Slalom Flex on-site in Centennial, CO. The role partners with engineers, data specialists, and client product owners to translate business intent into clear product direction and lead AI-enabled delivery within high-velocity pods.

You will own the product lifecycle from concept through launch, define governance, and ensure alignment of strategy, scope, and value. Strong Agile, DevOps, and AI experience are required.

Qualifications

• Idea-to-specs translation and backlog management.
• Bridge business and technical teams with delivery toolchains.
• Strong investigative, analytical, and communication skills; use AI to accelerate research and insights.
• Familiarity with Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP, Lean) and tailoring them to projects.
• Delivery risk identification and mitigation in complex/ambiguous environments.
• Exposure to AI in a delivery setting and willingness to deepen tooling capabilities.
• Knowledge of DevOps practices - CI/CD, automated testing, and release management.

Responsibilities

• Defining and governing project cadence, Agile events, and delivery reporting.
• Partnering with Product Owners to define product scope, write user stories, and acceptance criteria linked to OKRs.
• Owning the product lifecycle from concept through launch and beyond; collect feedback and plan iterations.
• Maintaining a shared context hub for strategy, decisions, requirements, risks, and technical context, using AI tooling to keep it current.
• Lead delivery teams by managing issues, risks, facilitating meetings, and providing status updates.
• Collaborating with engineering leaders to validate approach, strategy, and deliverables; document toolchains.

Skills

Agile methodologies

AI in delivery

Communication

Technical degree

DevOps practices

Client collaboration

Education

Technical degree (preferred)

Tools

GitLab

GitHub

SonarQube

CI/CD tooling

Containerization (Docker)

Artifact repositories

Cloud deployment

Job description

Description and Requirements

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*

Who You’ll Work With

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