Technical Product Owner

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Bold Orange is seeking a Technical Product Owner who leads client engagements, guides backlog strategy, and bridges client goals with engineering execution. The role emphasizes leadership, decision-making, and accountable delivery of marketing technology solutions.

You will work cross-functionally to translate requirements into epics and user stories, ensure clarity and delivery readiness, and drive outcomes that meet client expectations in a fast-paced Agile environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in a client-facing technology solution leadership role.
• Analytic mindset and problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional client-facing communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong critical thinking and responsiveness.

Responsibilities

• Act as a primary technical contact for clients, ensuring marketing technology solutions align with goals.
• Conduct regular client meetings to gather feedback, communicate progress, and address concerns.
• Partner with technical delivery leads, data solution architects, and data analysts to understand data models and create visualizations/reports.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define epics, features, and user stories reflecting client needs and roadmaps.
• Prioritize and maintain the technology solution backlog based on business value, dependencies, and feedback.
• Create and maintain technical documentation including user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives) and influence cross-functional teams.
• Pivot quickly to changing priorities while maintaining momentum and alignment.
• Own delivery readiness, clarity, and alignment within the team.

Skills

Client-facing

Agile

Leadership

Backlog management

Communication

Decision-making

Job description

About Bold Orange:

Bold Orange is a customer experience company. We believe authentic human connections are the single most important driver of business and societal progress. We exist to create these connections across the customer lifecycle, from acquisition to engagement to retention. Our culture is one of curiosity, collaboration, proactivity and always bringing the outside perspective to our customers.

Position Summary:

Bold Orange is seeking a Technical Product Owner who is passionate about leading client engagements, driving delivery outcomes, and owning the intersection of product intent and technical execution. This role goes beyond requirements gathering - it requires leadership, decision-making, quick tradeoff evaluations, and accountability for ensuring teams are building the right solutions in the right way.

The Technical Product Owner will lead and document requirement discovery, guide backlog strategy, and serve as the connective force between client goals, product direction, and engineering execution. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality marketing technology solutions that meet and exceed client expectations.

You will be responsible for managing and prioritizing the technology solution backlog, translating client needs into actionable epics, features, and user stories, and partnering with technology partners and engineering teams to ensure clarity, feasibility, and delivery readiness.

The ideal candidate is a client-facing, agile-minded leader who is comfortable guiding decisions, navigating ambiguity, and taking ownership of delivery outcomes. You will help shape marketing technology solutions that empower clients to achieve their business objectives and deliver meaningful customer experiences.

Position Duties and Responsibilities:

Client-facing

• Act as a primary point of technical contact for clients, understanding their business needs, and ensuring marketing technology solutions align with their goals
• Conduct regular client meetings to gather feedback, communicate progress, and address any concerns

Agile requirement gathering

• Partnering with technical delivery lead, data solution architect, and data analysts to understand data model, create data visualizations and reports.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define epics, features, and user stories that reflect client and user requirements that align with a client’s technology solution roadmap
• Prioritize and maintain technology solution backlog based on business value, technical dependencies, and client feedback
• Conduct thorough requirements analysis to ensure a deep understanding of client needs

Author technical documentation

• Create and maintain technical documentation as required, including user stories, acceptance criteria, and other relevant artifacts

Agile Expertise

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint demo reviews, and retrospectives, both internally and externally
• Influence cross-functional teams with agile process
• Pivot quickly in response to changing priorities, new information, or delivery challenges, maintaining clarity, momentum, and alignment across stakeholders and the delivery team

Ownership and Accountability

• Take accountability for delivery readiness, clarity, and alignment within the team
• Ensure the team is working toward clearly defined outcomes, not just completing tasks
• Anticipate risks, dependencies, and gaps before they impact delivery
• Serve as a leader within the team, guiding priorities, decisions, and communication

Required Qualifications & Experience:

• 4+ years of professional experience at a client-facing role within technology solution leadership
• Analytic mindset and problem-solving skills
• Exceptional client-facing communication and interpersonal skillsStrong critical thinking and responsiveness ...}