Technical Product Owner

Partner with the Platform Product Manager to gain a deep understanding of the external and internal customer needs, and facilitate technical discovery to help identify constraints and workarounds and to fill product gaps,

Manage a healthy backlog and coordinate the activities of the development team, consisting of Developers, Quality Assurance, and UX designers in an agile product development cycle.

Facilitate the process for the team to figure out “how” a feature/story will be developed, including leading grooming and planning meetings, facilitating daily stand-ups, breaking down stories/requirements into technical tasks and effort estimation, and ensuring stories meet the “definition of ready” before a sprint.

Produce detailed business and functional requirements documentation including complex scenario mapping based on a combination of qualitative research with quantitative data

Liaise with internal stakeholders for optimum solutions to delivering value, including Risk, Operations, Collections, Finance, Legal, and Compliance to deliver product in a regulated industry

Maintain relevant metrics that help the team see how they are doing; measures the efficiency and predictability of the dev team.

Monitor, track and provide outward communication for transparency on the team’s progress against their delivery goals for key product/feature releases, communicating status, blockers, and launch dates to key stakeholders.

Documents details around each release, outlining product details and project rationale, complex financial flows, lender-specific logic, and internal system architecture changes.