Technical Product Owner – Platform

Role overview

The Technical Product Owner (TPO) – Platform serves as the bridge between Product Management, application teams, and Platform Engineering. The TPO translates product strategy and cross-team requirements into detailed, technically actionable work for platform engineers, ensuring the delivery of reliable, scalable, and secure platform capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Requirement translation & alignment
  • Translate product strategy and high-level requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria, estimates, and technical specifications.
  • Act as the primary liaison across product managers, engineers, architects, and stakeholders.
  • Validate technical feasibility and ensure alignment with platform architecture and engineering standards.
• Backlog ownership & prioritization
  • Maintain and refine the engineering backlog (well-defined, prioritized, and ready for development).
  • Prioritize based on product objectives, technical value, and platform health (reliability, maintainability, security).
  • Balance feature enablement with platform lifecycle needs (modernization, tech debt reduction, performance improvements).
• Execution & delivery
  • Support agile ceremonies (refinement, planning, story reviews) with high-quality requirements.
  • Clarify edge cases, workflows, integrations, and technical nuances.
  • Coordinate cross-team dependencies to support engineering commitments.
• Platform technical understanding
  • Build a deep understanding of platform architecture, cloud infrastructure, developer workflows, and operational constraints.
  • Partner with architects, SREs, and engineering leads; advocate for scalability, resiliency, observability, and cost optimization.
• Stakeholder communication
  • Provide progress updates, risks, and trade-offs to product and engineering leadership.
  • Represent engineering considerations during scope and priority discussions.

Requirements

• 3+ years as a Product Owner, Technical Product Owner, Business Analyst, or similar role supporting engineering teams.
• 3+ years as a software development engineer.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms, infrastructure services, and platform engineering concepts.
• Experience translating business requirements into detailed technical stories.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills with technical and non-technical teams.
• Agile development practices knowledge.
• Ability to travel up to 10% (as needed).

Preferred qualifications

• Experience supporting internal developer platforms or platform engineering teams.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and cloud security.
• Relevant cloud certifications or Agile Product Owner certification.

Work location

• Remote, with an expectation to relocate at own expense to the onsite Houston, TX location by Q1 2027 (approximate and subject to change).