Senior Technical Product Owner

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Guatemala.

📋 Description

• Convert business product strategies into actionable technical deliverables.

• Oversee intricate product backlogs and propel tactical execution.

• Guide and mentor junior Technical Product Owners.

• Generate accurate, AI-ready requirements utilizing the Given-When-Then (Gherkin) format.

• Develop solutions that integrate AI capabilities such as LLMs, RAG, and agents as needed.

• Leverage AI assistants for tasks including code generation, test creation, documentation, and learning.

• Assess AI outputs and establish best practices for prompt design, evaluation, and safety.

• Create thorough user stories and acceptance criteria encompassing happy paths, edge cases, errors, integrations, security, performance, and compliance.

• Document dependencies, integration points, and system interactions.

• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and technical leads.

• Review and accept completed stories, ensuring production readiness.

• Test delivered functionalities across integration points and documented scenarios.

• Coordinate with QA teams regarding acceptance criteria and automated testing.

• Own, maintain, prioritize, and sequence complex user story backlogs.

• Convert roadmaps into development-ready stories and decompose complex features into appropriately sized stories.

• Make tactical trade-off decisions and formulate release plans.

• Identify and escalate delivery risks and obstacles.

• Lead sprint planning, refinement sessions, reviews, and retrospectives.

• Collaborate with Scrum Masters, developers, architects, QA engineers, and designers.

• Provide expert guidance throughout development and present completed work during sprint reviews.

• Advocate for Agile and BDD practices.

• Act as the primary contact between development teams and business stakeholders.

• Facilitate requirements discovery sessions and lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

• Communicate sprint progress, release readiness, and associated risks.

• Negotiate scope, priorities, and trade-offs effectively.

• Mentor and coach junior TPOs, reviewing their stories.

• Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and training processes.

• Engage in or lead product owner communities of practice.

• Promote the adoption of tools, methodologies, and practices that enhance delivery effectiveness.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.

• 7–10 years of experience as a TPO, Business Analyst, or Technical Product Owner within Agile teams.

• At least 3–5 years at a senior/lead level managing complex, enterprise-scale products.

• Expertise in crafting detailed user stories with comprehensive acceptance criteria using the Given-When-Then format.

• Strong experience with Behavior-Driven Development (BDD).

• Advanced technical knowledge of system architecture, data models, APIs, and integration patterns.

• Proven leadership experience within Agile/Scrum teams.

• Proficiency with Agile tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, and Confluence.

• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

• Experience in mentoring junior team members.

• Preferred: CSPO, A-CSPO, CPO, or PMI-ACP certification.

• Preferred: Familiarity with BDD tools (Cucumber, SpecFlow, Behave).

• Preferred: Knowledge of AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.).

• Preferred: Understanding of test automation, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices.

• Preferred: Background in software development, architecture, or QA.

• Preferred: Experience leading product ownership across multiple teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits.

• Ground floor opportunity with EZCORP.

• Start-up, purpose-driven mentality.

• Innovative and agile problem-solving culture.