Summary
Advance Auto Parts is looking for a highly skilled and motivated Technical Product Owner to join our growing team. This role will provide the technology vision for pricing products that drive business value and deliver a differentiated experience for our store team members and customers, thus enabling Advance Auto Part's Mission of having a "passion for Customers, Passion for Yes".
Position
The Technical Product Owner will work closely with cross-functional teams including the pricing business, engineering, design, merchandising, marketing and support teams to define, prioritize and deliver high quality pricing products. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background and a deep understanding of software development processes along with the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
Roles and Responsibilities
Product Strategy & Vision: Collaborate with stakeholders to define and refine technology product vision, roadmap and strategy. Ensure alignment between business objectives and technical execution.
Backlog Management: Translate product vision into actionable tasks in the backlog. Prioritize and manage product backlog by working closely with product, engineering, UX/UI and business teams. Break down high-level features into actionable user stories that are well-defined, clear and technically feasible.
Requirements Gathering: Work with business teams and customers to gather, analyze and document technical requirements which can be translated into technical specifications for development teams.
Collaboration with Engineering Teams: Active engagement with the engineering teams to ensure that technical requirements are met. Participate in sprint ceremonies – sprint planning, daily standups and retrospectives.
Stakeholder communication: Serve as a liaison between the business stakeholders and engineering team communicating progress, risks and dependencies clearly and regularly.
Pricing Quality Assurance: Ensure products meet the required technical standards and business requirements through rigorous testing and validation processes. Support teams by providing acceptable success criteria.
Customer-centric Approach: Collaborate with UX/UI teams to ensure that pricing solution and experiences optimized keeping the customer and store team members in mind.
Release scheduling: Define product release schedules in co-ordination with stakeholders and development teams, ensuring that features are delivered in. timely manner.
Continuous Improvement: Foster a culture of continuous improvement by collaborating closely with stakeholders and development teams to improve processes, tools and workflows.
Qualifications
3+ years’ experience as a Product owner, Technical Product Owner or Technical Business Analyst.
Solid understanding of software development processes, cloud platforms and systems architecture. Familiarity with microservices and event-driven architectures is a bonus.
Strong familiarity with Agile methodologies – Scrum, kanban and development tools – Jira, Confluence, etc.
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Ability to translate complex technical concepts into business language to effectively communicate with non-technical stakeholders.
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills to help review, analyze, prioritize competing items, challenges and dependencies
Solid collaboration skills with experience in relation building, conflict resolution, negotiation and consensus building skills. Experience with stakeholder and vendor management.
Experience in coaching and mentoring highly performant engineering teams.
Working knowledge of the retail industry and pricing domain is a bonus.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer information systems, engineering or related field.
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