Technical Product Owner

Whether you started from the product side and developed technical skills or started as a technical resource, you have a knack for the product side of the business. You possess the necessary technical product knowledge to drive strategic conversations about the product and enhance value to Equifax and its customers.

Equifax is seeking a **technical product owner**who is a master at bridging the desires of the customer and the capabilities of the technology, removing barriers to software development. You will be responsible for grooming the product backlog and have insight into technical requirements of individual stories thus creating a more efficient user experience.

**What you will do**
- _Connects with the Customer in partnership with Product Management _- Know the customer & stakeholders: Understands the needs of customers and stakeholders in a broader context; Develops partnership relationships with key engineering and QA counterparts and engages with Architecture teams as needed; Understands the Problem(s) to be solved: Participates in interviews with users, customers and stakeholders to understand requirements; Can articulate and decompose the work into discrete increments that align to customer needs; Provides inputs in business/technical requirements definition; Develops whole product solutions: Understands the end product/functionality needed and can articulate a broader need to deliver a more holistic solution; Provides guidance to engineering and QA teams when clarity about business requirements is needed.
- _Contributes to the Plan and Roadmap _- Solutioning and Estimation: Active participant in solutioning and epic decomposition process to groom the backlog of stories, as well as initial t-shirt sizing sessions; Provides inputs to QE partners to ensure testing approach and high level use cases are considered in the solution and estimation; Helps drive MVP definition with stakeholders when applicable; Dependency management: Drives the process to identify, capture and document dependencies required to deliver the plan in partnership with engineering and architecture teams; Interacts with dependent teams to understand dependencies; Backlog Prioritization and planning: Active participant in the process of initial estimates and value/effort assessment to define scope of quarterly increments; Contributes to the analysis of how work should be sequenced and the implications to the critical path.
- _Manages & Prioritizes Team Backlog(s) _- User Story creation: Reviews initial drafts of stories developed and/or contributes to refinement for Product Management review; Prioritization and sprint planning: Aligns prioritization with Product Management and Product Owner best practices for defined backlog; Creates sprint, sprint goal, ensures sprint plans are in place for the current sprint and the subsequent two sprints; Drives alignment with upstream dependencies to deliver; Testing and Acceptance Criteria: Drives adherence to story acceptance criteria to ensure development team delivers according to desired outcome and readiness checklist; Partners with QE and Engineering lead to define testing approach, scope and planning; Provides final sign-off/acceptance of stories; Demos: Reviews initial drafts and partners with product managers to prepare sprint/quarterly demos. Is capable of presenting the demo itself.

**What experience you need**
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline strongly preferred; equivalent experience may be considered
- **5-7 years of product owner / business analyst experience in a cloud-based environment (Tech Product Owner)**
- Proven expertise in writing detailed user stories and acceptance criteria, and strongly commitment to delivering high-quality products.
- Experience working directly with engineering teams on a technical product. Must be comfortable discussing technical trade-offs, data schemas, and API design.
- Working experience using **Agile methodologies**, facilitating planning ceremonies and product management discussions required
- Working experience with data structures, **data analytics and AI concepts needed**
- Experience working with cross functional teams preferred
- Exposure and experience understanding and tracking capacity against the budget of product initiatives
- Cloud and AI certifications strongly preferred