Technical Product Owner

Role :: Technical Product Owner with MDM-Retail Domain

Location :: New York, NY-Onsite

Full-time

Job Description:

Master Data Management, Product Domain

Functional Skills

• Able to communicate status, milestones, dependencies, risks, and considerations to a wide variety of audiences (including Executive), breaking down options with clear articulation of benefits and trade-offs to enable decision-making by stakeholders (both business and technical).
• Demonstrates a high sense of urgency to influence changes and drive delivery.
• Able to delegate and oversee multiple workstreams, including oversight on project management resources when required.
• Harmonizes business, technical, and vendor implementation milestones into a technical roadmap and drives alignment among the product team; works with PMO to incorporate into program roadmap.
• Able to decompose large-scale initiatives into phased deliverables, prioritizing up-front business benefits when required.
• Experience driving project discovery leveraging tenets that support long term scalability.
• Solutions-oriented mindset, with an appetite to problem solve collaboratively with enterprise IT partners.
• Meticulous attention to detail, with the belief that no detail is too small to be overlooked.
• Demonstrates ability to operate effectively in ambiguous situations.
• Recognizes opportunities to challenge the status quo and provides possible solutions.
• Independently implements frameworks that ensure mutual understanding and drives conflict resolution when required.
• Familiarity with core SAP modules relevant to the product domain.
• Familiarity with UI/UX concepts, and able to champion user-centric design principles and incorporate feedback from end-users into tool enhancements when required.
• Stays informed about industry trends, competitors, and emerging technologies in the Master Data Management space.

Technical Skills & Qualifications:

• 5 years experience as a product owner in luxury retail, CPG, or adjacent industry
• 7 years experience working within a software lifecycle development delivery model.
• 3 years hands-on experience working directly with SaaS vendors.
• Proficiency in understanding and articulating technical concepts related to SaaS architecture and integration.
• Familiarity with API integrations and data migration processes for SaaS applications.
• Solutions-oriented mindset, with an appetite to problem solve collaboratively.
• Ability to iterate through design in phases while optimizing alignment with business sponsors and key stakeholders.
• Proficiency with data management principles and best practices.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to decompose complex challenges into logical options, and influence decision-making to drive alignment with technical roadmap.
• Experience driving discovery leveraging tenets that support long term scalability.
• Independent and creative analytical skills and the ability to clearly communicate ideas and confirm understanding.
• Successful track record of delivering outcomes within deadlines.
• Appetite to learn independently and gain deep understanding of complex topics.
• Strong production capabilities in PowerPoint, Excel, JIRA, Confluence, Visio, and project management platforms (e.g. MS Project, Smartsheets).
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field; Master's degree is a plus.
• Prior experience with master data management a plus.