Technical Product Owner

Technical Product Owner

Location : Minneapolis, MN (hybrid)

Duration : 7+ months

Interview : Virtual

Note:

• Candidate must be local to the Minneapolis or nearby area with DL copy
• LinkedIn with location (before 2022)
• Recent or recent second project must be at the current location
• Heathcare experience is a big plus

Required skills:

• Strong product management, program management, and project management skills, particularly in large-scale transformation initiatives.
• Ability to manage complex dependencies and coordinate across multiple teams and vendors.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including executive-level engagement.
• Experience with Agile delivery, backlog management, and prioritization.
• Ability to translate complex technical and business requirements into actionable work plans.
• Strong risk management, issue resolution, and decision-making capabilities.
• Familiarity with document composition, print and digital communications ecosystems, migration programs, and enterprise technology platforms.
• Proficiency with tools such as Jira, Rally, Smartsheet, Aha!, and Microsoft Teams.
• Worked with or in EngageOne, Quadient or other composition systems.

Key Activities

• Develop and maintain project roadmaps, delivery plans, and integrated project schedules.
• Manage feature backlogs, priorities, dependencies, and cross-team coordination across multiple workstreams.
• Facilitate requirements gathering and ensure user stories, use cases, and acceptance criteria are well-defined.
• Drive execution with engineering, QA, business analysts, vendors, and business stakeholders.
• Track milestones, deliverables, risks, issues, actions, assumptions, and decisions (IRAADs).
• Escalate and resolve blockers, scope changes, and delivery risks.
• Maintain leadership reporting, status updates, and program documentation.
• Support organizational change management, communications, training, and rollout activities.
• Ensure alignment between business objectives, technical solutions, and migration timelines.