About the role:
As a Technical Product Owner for TQL, you will serve as the voice of the customer to guide development teams in building software capabilities with the highest business and customer impact. You represent the needs and priorities of the IT Department to prioritize and manage the technical product backlog, and drive adoption to IT’s self-service portal for developers. For technical products, such as the self-service portal, you serve as the voice of technical users to provide tools and automation that help contribute to the IT organization’s goal to modernize and improve efficiency.
  

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What’s in it for you:  

\n\n$73,000 – 125,000 base salary, benefits package, and company perks\nIndependence to accomplish goals and requirements with minimal oversight\nAdvancement opportunities with structured career paths\nReimbursement for continuous education and technical training\nTQL's IT Team offers a hybrid work environment with the ability to work remotely 40 hours per month.\nWe win wherever we go – Voted a 2019-2024 Computerworld Best Places to Work in IT.
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What you will be doing:

\n\nAct as the voice of the customer to guide all stages of software development to deliver maximum value to the organization.\nBuild and maintain the backlog by working with business, product, and technical stakeholders to understand business opportunities and end-user needs. Break down epics to identify and prioritize features to be delivered to meet those needs.\nHold refinement sessions to proactively review upcoming epics with development team members to understand technical effort and external dependencies. If applicable, collaborate with external dependencies to retrieve what the development team needs prior to working on the epic.\nWork with business and technical stakeholders to develop and document user stories with strong acceptance criteria.\nLead sprint planning to determine the team’s objectives for the upcoming sprint; have strong influential ability to explain the why behind the sprint goal.\nLead the sprint review ceremonies to present the output from the most recent sprint to applicable key stakeholders and development team.\nParticipate in other agile ceremonies such as stand-ups and team retrospectives to be available to the team, answer questions, and work toward continuous improvement.\nImplement best practices for tracking and reporting product impact and product health metrics to understand the value being delivered, usability, and availability of the product.
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What you need:

\n\nBachelor’s degree preferred, but you do not need one to be successful\nDevelopment experience in Information Technology and/or strong tenure within TQL preferred\nEffective communication to collaborate with executive stakeholders and drive department-wide adoption\nAt least 3 years of experience in a Product Owner role preferred \nProduct Owner certifications (e.g. Certified Scrum Product Owner, Professional Scrum Product Owner, or SAFe Product Owner Certification) are a plus \nAbility to understand complex business problems and identify and interpret business needs to propose solution(s)\nStrong influence, facilitation, and collaboration skills with ability to effectively communicate\nExceptional work ethic, organizational, multitasking, and problem-solving skills
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Where you'll be: 601 South Harbour Island Blvd., Suite 230, Tampa, FL 33602