Manager, Technical Product Owner
- Saint Louis, MO
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provides technical leadership to all members of the product teams, both business and IT, to drive continual product innovation.
- Provides vision and direction to the IT development team(s) and stakeholders within and outside of the organization.
- Ensures the timely completion of all technology initiatives and remains actively involved in the continuous improvement of all products.
- Actively identifies and removes impediments to ensure delivery of product development deliverables based on the product roadmaps and timetable established by the company.
- In partnership with business leadership, ensures product development is aligned with product vision, roadmap and business expansion/growth opportunities.
- Develops the technology roadmap for managed products, supporting the goals and objectives defined in the overall product roadmap.
- Provides backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories.
- Works closely with the Business Product Owner (BPO) to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI.
- Leads the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities.
- Provides monthly status reporting of all projects to include schedules, scope and total estimated costs (including hours and other expenses).
- Uses Agile practices for oversight of managed products to ensure teams continually develop and improve products in an effective and efficient manner.
- Responsible for the adherence to Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for all customer facing and critical internal systems.
- Ensures team adherence to company programming standards and controls.
- Stays current on key technology developments that could involve a change to or improvement of products managed.
- Acts as a liaison for managed products with other areas of the company and within IT.
- Directs, organizes, supervises and assists product staff. Assumes responsibility for ensuring the efficient and effective operation of staff by:
- Reviewing and improving existing operating policies and procedures and ensuring their effective implementation and maintenance; implementing new procedures as required.
- Making personnel decisions regarding employment, development, performance ratings, salary changes, promotions, transfers, and terminations.
- Other duties as assigned by management.
- Proven ability to lead critical business systems/applications.
- Experience developing business applications in either a waterfall or Agile manner.
- Experienced managing all aspects of software application development lifecycle (SDLC).
- Willingness to apply Agile processes and principles.
- Outstanding communication, presentation and leadership skills.
- Proven experience mentoring, coaching, and training less experienced staff.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Creative thinker with a vision.
- Strong attention to details.
- Bachelors degree in computer science, information systems or computer engineering or equivalent work experience.
- 5+ years of previous industry experience, preferable in a business services organization with similar characteristics as Cass.
- 1-3 years of experience as Product Manager/Lead or IT Manager.