Technical Product Owner

Franklin Fitch; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Franklin Fitch partners with a leading U.S. law firm to hire a Technical Product Owner for data and BI initiatives.

This role bridges business stakeholders and engineering, translating needs into technical requirements and driving Agile delivery across data platforms, analytics, and reporting. The ideal candidate will own technical backlogs, write user stories, lead Agile ceremonies, and collaborate with data engineers and BI teams to ensure clear priorities and successful delivery without

Qualifications

• Experience as Technical Product Owner or similar role.
• Proven backlog management, writing user stories and defining acceptance criteria.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum and collaborating with engineering teams.
• Working knowledge of databases, data pipelines, and system integrations.
• Experience with Jira or similar tools.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritise technical product backlogs across data and BI initiatives.
• Break down complex initiatives into user stories, acceptance criteria and tasks.
• Lead Agile ceremonies: sprint planning, standups, reviews and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with data engineers, architects, BI teams and stakeholders to define requirements.
• Track progress, resolve blockers and communicate priorities and risks to leadership.
• Document requirements and monitor delivery using Jira.
• Translate business needs into data pipelines, databases, integrations, reporting and analytics.

Skills

Backlog management

User stories

Agile / Scrum

Stakeholder management

Data & BI domain

Technical product ownership

Tools

Jira

Databricks

Snowflake

Azure

AWS

Power BI

Job description

Technical Product Owner | Data & Business Intelligence

About the Role

We are partnering with a leading U.S. law firm seeking a Technical Product Owner to support its data and business intelligence initiatives. This role will bridge business stakeholders and engineering teams, translating business needs into technical requirements and driving Agile delivery across data platforms, analytics, and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritize technical product backlogs across data and BI initiatives.
• Break down complex initiatives into user stories, acceptance criteria, and actionable development tasks.
• Lead Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, standups, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with data engineers, architects, BI teams, and business stakeholders to define requirements and solutions.
• Track sprint progress, resolve blockers, and communicate priorities, risks, and status updates to leadership.
• Use Jira to document requirements, manage backlogs, and monitor delivery.
• Translate business needs into technical requirements involving data pipelines, databases, integrations, reporting, and analytics.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Technical Product Owner, Data Product Owner, Technical Business Analyst, or similar role.
• Proven experience managing technical backlogs, writing user stories, and defining acceptance criteria.
• Experience working directly with engineering teams in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Working knowledge of databases, data pipelines, data ingestion, and system integrations.
• Experience with Jira or similar tools.
• Strong communication, organization, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting data engineering, BI, reporting, analytics, or data platform initiatives.
• Familiarity with Databricks, Snowflake, Azure, AWS, Power BI, Cognos, or data warehouse technologies.
• Understanding of ETL/ELT processes and enterprise data integrations.

Opportunity Overview

This is a hands‑on product ownership role focused on backlog management, technical requirements, and delivery leadership. The ideal candidate can understand technical concepts, challenge assumptions, and provide engineering teams with the clarity needed to execute successfully. Coding is not required.