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Position: Technical Product Owner
Reports to Title: Manager Software Definition
Department/Division: Software Development
Primary Work Location: Chicago, IL
Job Code/Classification : Exempt
Position Overview
Primary responsibility of the Technical Product Owner is to prioritize and manage the product backlog, learning the customers and markets to deliver industry-leading software applications through documenting, analyzing, prioritizing, and agreeing on requirements for the engineering team.
Essential Functions (Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)
Translate product road map to features.
Participate in daily Scrum ceremonies, leading refinement sessions, and engaging with implementation team.
Act as a liaison between the cross-functional teams.
Manage product backlog, prioritize features, and create detailed user stories and acceptance criteria for the development team. Translate business priorities into technical requirements and engage in a hands-on way to ensure business objectives are met for PI.
Demonstrate sense of ownership.
Ability to communicate technical concepts, risks and dependencies and translate them into TFS/Azure work items or plans.
Writing and reviewing requirements as well as maintaining the requirements in our requirement systems cross platform.
Participating in scope discussions and driving the requirements elicitation process, leading from user needs, business needs, and regulatory requirements into well-documented requirements suitable for product development.
Contributing to and creating corporate procedures that are related to requirement management and system engineering.
Strong understanding of Cloud Services, APIs, Microservices and SQL.
Competencies (Knowledge and Skills needed for this position.) Ability to development and document complex products and systems
Demonstrate knowledge of concepts, practices, and procedures in engineering and product development
Demonstrate ability to think both strategically and tactically
Ability to communicate across departments
Experience creating detailed reports and giving presentations.
The ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine requirements for the team
Desired Qualifications
Education: Degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent, preferred.
Experience: Strong technical understanding of requirements methodologies, tools and best practices
5+ years software engineering, product development or related experience
3+ years' experience in project delivery role
Experience in agile development, preferable SAFe
Medical device experience preferred
Good understanding of regulatory requirements and business processes in the medical device industry - or any other regulated industry
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Equal Opportunity Employer
GN Hearing is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to cultural diversity in the workplace. GN Hearing openly supports and is fully committed to the recruitment, training and promotion of all individuals, without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, disability, age, gender, maternity, marital status, status with regard to public assistance or any other classification protected by state, federal or local law or ordinance. Founded in 1869, GN group today operates in more than 90 countries across the world and has more than 6,000 employees. View The EEO is the Law poster and its supplement.
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