Technical Product Owner (Glenview, IL)

ReSound; Glenview (IL); Remote; USD 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

GN Store Nord is seeking a Technical Product Owner to prioritize and manage the product backlog, transforming business needs into technical requirements for engineering teams. The role emphasizes learning customers and markets to deliver industry-leading software applications.

Remote role with residency in Glenview, IL or nearby. The candidate will translate roadmaps into features, lead Scrum ceremonies, and collaborate across departments to ensure business objectives are met.

Qualifications

• Ability to document complex products and systems.
• Knowledge of engineering and product development concepts and practices.
• Ability to think strategically and tactically.
• Strong understanding of web-based and desktop applications.
• Experience in medical devices or regulated healthcare industry.

Responsibilities

• Translate product road map to features.
• Lead refinement sessions and participate in daily Scrum ceremonies.
• Act as liaison between cross-functional teams.
• Create detailed user stories and acceptance criteria for development.
• Transform business priorities into technical requirements for PI.
• Communicate risks and dependencies clearly to teams.

Skills

Document requirements

Agile/Scrum

Stakeholder engagement

Figma

Azure DevOps

Cross-functional collaboration

Communicate across departments

Web/Desktop apps knowledge

Education

Degree in CS or Eng

Tools

Azure DevOps

TFS

Figma

Job description

*Please consider before applying:

While this is a remote role, the selected candidate must physically reside in Glenview, IL or nearby surrounding area.

Position Overview:

The primary responsibility of the Technical Product Owner is to prioritize and manage the product backlog, learning the customers and markets to deliver industry-leading software applications through documenting, analyzing, prioritizing, and agreeing on requirements for the engineering team.

Essential Functions:

• Translate product road map to features
• Participate in daily Scrum ceremonies, leading refinement sessions, and engaging with implementation team
• Act as a liaison between cross-functional teams
• Manage product backlog, prioritize features, and create detailed user stories and acceptance criteria for the development team
• Transform business priorities into technical requirements and engage thoroughly to ensure that business objectives are accomplished for PI
• Demonstrate sense of ownership
• Ability to communicate technical concepts, risks and dependencies and translate them into TFS/Azure work items or plans
• Writing and reviewing requirements as well as maintaining the requirements in our requirement systems cross platform
• Participating in scope discussions and facilitating the requirements elicitation process, leading from user needs, business needs, and regulatory requirements into well-documented requirements suitable for product development
• Contributing to and creating corporate procedures that are related to requirement management and system engineering

Required Skills (Knowledge and Skills needed for this position):

• Ability to document complex products and systems
• Demonstrate knowledge of concepts, practices, and procedures in engineering and product development
• Demonstrate ability to think both strategically and tactically
• Thorough knowledge of both web-based and desktop applications
• Experience with Medical devices or regulated healthcare industry
• Ability to communicate across departments
• Experience creating detailed reports and giving presentations
• Experience leading Agile ceremonies for Scrum teams and authoring features, user stories, acceptance criteria and related technical details
• The capacity to engage stakeholders and collaborate with them to define the team's requirements
• Working knowledge of Figma for reviewing UI designs
• Proficiency in Azure DevOps/TFS

Desired Qualifications:

• Education: Degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent
• Experience:
• Strong technical understanding of requirements methodologies, tools and best practices
• 5+ years of software engineering, product development or related experience
• 3+ years’ experience in project delivery role
• Solid understanding of regulatory requirements and business processes in the medical device industry – or any other regulated industry

Pay Transparency Notice:

• The target annual compensation for this position can range from $100,000.00 - $115,000.00 with a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of the fiscal year-end.
• Compensation for roles at GN depends on a wide array of factors including but not limited to location, role, skill set, and level of experience
• To remain competitive, GN offers a competitive benefits package, including annual bonuses, health insurance, a 401(k) plan, and paid vacation and holidays

We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process:

GN welcomes applicants from all backgrounds and applicants will receive equal consideration for employment.

Disability Accommodation

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GN brings people closer through our advanced intelligent hearing, audio, video, and gaming solutions. Inspired by people and motivated by innovation, we deliver technology that enhances the senses of hearing and sight. We enable people with hearing loss overcome real-life problems, improve communication and collaboration for businesses and provide great experiences for audio and gaming enthusiasts.

GN Store Nord A/S has entered into a definitive agreement for the sale of GN’s Hearing business to Amplifon S.p.A. to create a global leader in audiology. For GN Group, this creates an opportunity to expand our position in the large audio and video peripherals markets. Read more about the announcement here.