Technical Product Manager

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Technical Product Owner

As a technical product owner, you have deep understanding and experience of driving and owning product development principles and processes. This role requires experience in a managerial role and will be managing 8-11 people. Experience in Agile methodologies is a core requirement and the candidate must be detail oriented with ability to effectively communicate with all levels of management.

Work as the Product Owner for your assigned Product, and work hand in hand with the development sprint team. Use Agile best practices to ensure that we are able to meet the development requirements of customers. Be available to give expert guidance to team members where needed.

Requires interface with customers and other team members. May involve travel to customer sites.

Technical Product Owner Duties

· Lead in creation of technical and functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria in collaboration with Product Management and Engineering teams. Create and communicate requirements artifacts that translate business needs into executable stories.

· Aid in and conduct user acceptance testing of the delivered User Stories

· Collaborates with System and Solution Architect/Engineering to assist with decision-making ensuring we are leveraging feature/functionalities made available by Microsoft. An example may be using a PowerApp to construct additional functionality versus creating a .NET native application.

· Highly available to technical team during iteration (sprint) in order to answer real time questions and provide clarity to user stories

· Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value and ROI

· Provide vision and direction to the Agile development team

· Manages and maintains efficient flow of just-in-time story elaboration activities (user story refinement) throughout team execution, typically maintaining 2 iterations (sprints) worth user stories available and ready in team backlog.

· Prioritize and refine backlog based on Product Roadmap

· Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals

· Provides demo back to the Product Management team at the end of each sprint, ensuring the sprint met expectations.

· Strong knowledge of Agile development practices (especially Scrum), methodologies and tools

· Strong understanding of the different backgrounds, responsibilities and expectations of team. Ability to use that understanding to share information appropriately and with the correct people.

· Collaborating with other product owners in managing dependencies, working in a SCALE agile (SAFe) manner

· Review QA Test strategy and test cases to ensure they align to functional and non-functional requirements.

· Interface with documentation writers when needed

Knowledge Management

· Expand expertise within the product and industry.

· Attend training sessions offered and use self-study tools; assist with peer training as needed.

· Contribute to a customer-focused environment that encourages information sharing, team-based resolution activity, cross training and an absolute focus on resolving customer and internal hurdles as quickly and effectively as possible.

Communication

· Ensure that all internal and external interactions are handled professionally and with the highest level of service, follow-through and consistently keep commitments.

· Ensure a professional communication manner at all times.

· Take ownership of all issues, maintain constant communication with customers and management and work until issues are resolved.

Mentoring & Training

· 8-11 Direct Reports.

· Recommend and develop training sessions for knowledge sharing within the team.

Additional Duties

· Recommend improvements in Product Management policies and procedures.

· Additional duties as assigned.

To promote health and wellness, Aptean employees are provided with competitive compensation, robust benefits beginning day-one, and a self-managed PTO policy. Our open-office environment and modern breakroom allow people to get to know each other from across departments.

This position will be at our Corporate Headquarters in Alpharetta, GA.

About Us

Aptean is a private-equity backed software company that connects companies in specific industries with specialized software solutions

. In today’s fast-paced, highly competitive economy, organizations don’t have time to waste forcing homegrown software, spreadsheets, and one-size-fits-all solutions to do things they were never designed to do. Aptean is on a mission to end those workarounds with streamlined industry-specific software solutions. That’s why over 4,100 highly specialized organizations in more than 20 industries and 54 countries rely on us to simplify their everyday operations.

If you are looking for a company where you can give your best, work collaboratively, and build your career, we encourage you to submit an application!

Aptean, Inc., is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. In accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws we do not tolerate discrimination or harassment against any applicant for employment or employee with Aptean because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other group status protected by applicable law.

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