Remote Director, Technical Product Owner Job in Greater Chicago HUB International

Who you are

• Strong vision and background in digital technical product capability and market insights in B2C, B2B, and B2B2C space
• Experience and knowledge of partner-based go to market approaches, challenges, and interoperability in similar web, platform, and mobile products
• Ability to harness cross-industry knowledge of leading-edge technical product capabilities and translate that into vision for the team
• Strong inter-team collaboration between various technical, business, marketing, and IT teams
• Ability to lead technical product vision in a dedicated Agile sprint process and squads
• Ability to drive continued innovation in thinking, requirements, and delivered capabilities
• Inspirational, collaborative mindset with demonstrated success in building products that customers love
• Track record of product-driven growth fueled by a great end to end customer experience
• Ability to set product and technology vision and deliverables for the squad and own the outcome
• Create inclusive team environments that foster trust and a sense of empowerment
• At least 15 years of technical and/or product development experience with a minimum of 10 years in a software product owner role or similar
• 3-5 years of direct management experience leading product owners
• Experience building and managing high engagement digital consumer products and features on a flexible, services-based, API platform
• Managed product backlog and story refinement meetings
• Experience with development and project management tools like Jira and Confluence
• Ability to build relationships with external customers, partners, and users to determine requirements and priorities and validate output of development team sprints
• Strong user and stakeholder focus, excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communicator, comfortable having product and technical discussions with internal and external developers and UX teams
• Experience in team environments working in Agile teams of developers, quality engineers, and project managers
• Ability to facilitate communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders

Desirables

• Experience with tokenization
• Experience with AI
• Experience with Mobile
• Experience with React
• Experience with Python

What the job involves

• Collaborate with the senior VIU Solutions and Product teams, Strategic Partner GTM team, internal development teams, and our Agile sprint teams to create and translate business roadmaps and capabilities into tangible technical implementations
• Serve as the product evangelist and subject matter expert to the technical/developer community on the needs, requirements and future strategies of our Customers and Partners
• Drive communication and vision between the business, development, platform, data, and operations teams
• Uncover and understand customer needs and translate them into requirements for future sprints
• Iterate on the existing organizational effectiveness to capitalize on opportunities to impact our customer experience positively