Own technical capability roadmaps, prioritize program and ART backlogs, define feature requirements, and coordinate delivery across product teams, platforms, vendors, and technology organizations. Partner with architects, engineers, stakeholders, and risk teams to manage dependencies, risks, governance, release readiness, compliance, and production supportability. Track delivery progress, success metrics, adoption, and value realization while facilitating tradeoff decisions, stakeholder alignment, demonstrations, and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain technical capability roadmaps aligned to enterprise technology strategy and business objectives.
- Partner with architects and engineering leaders to evaluate technical approaches, scalability considerations, integration requirements, and implementation tradeoffs.
- Own and prioritize the program/ART backlog (features) to maximize business value and strategic outcomes.
- Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, technology teams, Product Owners, architects, risk partners, and leadership.
- Define feature scope, business outcomes, benefit hypotheses, success measures, and acceptance criteria.
- Ensure features are sufficiently defined, understood, and documented before entering delivery.
- Facilitate feature refinement activities and incorporate stakeholder, technical, architectural, and operational feedback.
- Drive feature readiness by ensuring requirements, dependencies, impacts, assumptions, and risks are identified and addressed.
- Own feature lifecycle management from intake through closure, maintaining accurate feature status and governance within ADO.
- Coordinate delivery across multiple product teams, platforms, vendors, and technology organizations.
- Drive resolution of cross-team dependencies, sequencing concerns, and resource constraints impacting delivery.
- Partner with Product Owners and engineering teams during backlog decomposition and feature implementation.
- Collaborate with architects and technical leaders to ensure alignment to enterprise architecture, technical strategy, and design decisions.
- Facilitate effort scoring, feature ranking, and prioritization decisions across competing demand.
- Make prioritization and tradeoff decisions balancing customer value, risk, cost, capacity, and strategic objectives.
- Ensure technical solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, security requirements, resiliency expectations, and operational support models.
- Proactively identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies to minimize impacts to scope, timeline, quality, and outcomes.
- Monitor delivery progress and feature health, resolving escalated issues and removing impediments impacting value delivery.
- Ensure required risk reviews, approvals, testing, education, training, and production readiness activities are completed.
- Ensure technical capabilities are operationally ready, supportable, and compliant before production release.
- Drive release readiness and coordinate approvals necessary for production deployment.
- Participate in feature demonstrations and validation activities to ensure delivered solutions meet business intent and acceptance criteria.
- Define and track success metrics, adoption measures, and value realization outcomes.
- Analyze post-release results and customer feedback to inform future investment, roadmap, and prioritization decisions.
- Establish transparent communication with stakeholders and leadership regarding status, risks, dependencies, scope decisions, and outcomes.
- Influence stakeholders, facilitate decision-making, and build alignment across competing priorities.
Drive continuous improvement through lessons learned, process enhancements, and optimization of product delivery practices
Compensation, Benefits and Duration
Minimum Compensation: USD 60,000
Maximum Compensation: USD 210,000
Compensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role.
Medical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full time employees.
This position is not available for independent contractors
No applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date of this post
Photon San Francisco, California, USA Office
San Francisco, United States
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