Technical Product Owner

Role Description

Shamrock Trading Corporation is looking for a Technical Product Owner to join our Software Engineering team. The Technical Product Owner partners closely with Product Management, Software Engineering, Data Services, QA, and business stakeholders to help translate Product-defined priorities, scope, and functional requirements into clear, executable work for agile development teams.

This role serves as a key liaison across cross-functional teams, helping ensure that work is well understood, appropriately defined, and ready for execution. The Technical Product Owner supports delivery by facilitating collaboration, improving visibility, identifying dependencies, and helping teams maintain focus on delivering business value efficiently and effectively.

The purpose of the role is to enable high-quality product delivery by ensuring development teams have the information, context, and clarity needed to execute successfully. This includes supporting:

• Backlog refinement
• User story development
• Acceptance criteria definition
• Dependency coordination
• Documentation
• Ongoing delivery activities throughout the software development lifecycle

Successful Technical Product Owners combine strong communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills with the ability to work effectively across both business and technical teams. They help create alignment, reduce ambiguity, and support continuous improvement in how work flows from defined scope through delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience as a Technical Product Owner (or similar role) in a production software environment, with direct experience working with agile teams
• Advanced understanding of agile development processes and demonstrated experience driving agile processes in a highly technical environment
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills; adept at working across different functions and diverse cultures
• Experience working in a dynamic environment, with a need to adapt to changing priorities, market dynamics, and evolving business needs and guide teams accordingly
• Prefer formal people management experience

Requirements

• Partner with Product Managers to understand priority, sequencing, MVP scope, functional requirements, and desired outcomes
• Translate Product-defined requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, technical requirements, and delivery artifacts
• Work with Engineering to decompose work into clear, feasible, testable stories
• Coordinate with additional technical teams for any dependent work required to achieving the outcomes of the work your Squad has
• Track dependencies across Software Engineering, Data Services, QA, SRE, Architecture, business and other cross-functional teams
• Maintain Jira hygiene, story readiness, documentation, decision logs, and dependency tracking
• Facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, retrospectives, and sprint reviews as needed
• Serve as Scrum Master by helping remove blockers, improve team flow, and support continuous improvement
• Partner with QA to ensure acceptance criteria are clear, testable, and aligned to expected behavior
• Support release readiness through coordination, validation planning, communication, and post-release follow-up

Benefits

• Ongoing training and professional development opportunities
• Fully paid healthcare, dental and vision premiums for employees and eligible dependents, and gym benefits
• Generous company 401(k) contributions and employee stock ownership after one year
• Competitive PTO and fully paid time off opportunities to volunteer within your community

Company Description

Shamrock Trading Corporation is a family of brands that has been serving the transportation and logistics industries since 1986. Shamrock offers factoring solutions, export financing, third-party logistics, a fuel card program and trucking technology.

Shamrock’s mission since the start has been to create value and success for our customers, our partners and our people. Strong ethics, dedication to our customers and close attention to the marketplace are critical to the success and growth of the Shamrock brands. Shamrock is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, with multiple offices throughout the U.S.