GN **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 . **E-Verify** GN Hearing / ReSound participates in E-Verify. View the E-Verify poster here . 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We help people with hearing loss overcome real-life challenges, improve communication and collaboration for businesses, and provide great experiences for audio and gaming enthusiasts. GN was founded more than 150 years ago with a vision to connect the world. Today, inspired by our strong heritage, GN touches more lives than ever with the broadest portfolio of products and services in our history – fostering a sense of community, openness, and understanding. By listening to customers and combining our unique expertise in the human ear, audio, video, and speech, wireless technologies, software, and miniaturization, we transform what it takes to bring people closer to what is important to them. **The GN-owned brands that are responsible for bringing these technologies to life:** + Medical grade hearing technology: ReSound (https://www.resound.com/en) , Beltone (https://www.beltone.com/en) , Interton (https://www.interton.com/en) , Jabra (https://www.jabra.com/hearing) + Professional collaboration: Jabra (https://www.jabra.com/) , BlueParrott (https://www.emea.blueparrott.com/) , FalCom (https://falcom.gn.com/) + Gaming, calls and media: SteelSeries (https://steelseries.com/) , Jabra (https://www.jabra.com/) Founded in 1869, the GN Group employs 7,000 people and is listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen (GN.CO). GN’s solutions are sold in around 100 countries across the world. 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