Technical Product Owner

Technical Product Owner

Location: Phoenix, AZ- onsite

Duration: 6+ months

Rate: $62/hr

Looking for a highly hands-on Technical Product Owner with strong product, platform, AI, and testing skills who can help turn the EP2 vision into a scalable self-service platform while owning delivery quality from requirements through production validation. Ideal Candidate Profile: Looking for someone with 6-9 years and combines elements of: Product Owner, Business Analyst, Technical Analyst, Functional Tester. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable: discussing user journeys with business teams, reviewing architecture with engineers, testing functionality in lower environments, and validating AI-driven experiences.

What Success Looks Like: Within the first 6–12 months, this person should be able to: independently own major EP2 features from ideation through release. Drive backlog and delivery across multiple platform teams. Validate functionality end-to-end with minimal supervision. Help identify new self-service opportunities across Enterprise Platforms. Improve product quality by proactively catching usability, workflow, integration, and AI-response issues before release.

Partner closely with the Product Manager to translate the vision into executable features, stories, and releases. Help define and refine capabilities across: Capability Maps, Self-Service Services, Workflow Composer, AI Assistant and Knowledge Experiences. Work with platform SMEs, engineers, architects, and business teams to identify self-service opportunities and reusable platform capabilities. Drive backlog readiness, feature decomposition, acceptance criteria, dependency management, and release planning.

Technical & AI Expectations: Comfortable working in highly technical platform environments involving: APIs, Data assets, Events, Workflows, Capability models, System integrations. Strong understanding of modern AI concepts and applications, including LLMs, RAG architectures, AI Assistants, Agents, Prompt-driven experiences. Able to evaluate AI-powered experiences from both a product and user perspective. Capable of understanding technical architecture discussions and translating them into product requirements. The PO must be comfortable being hands-on testing or debugging on their own. Hands-On Problem Solving Comfortable validating integrations, testing APIs, reviewing logs, reproducing issues, and helping isolate root causes. Acts as the first line of validation before involving engineering teams.