Senior Technical Product Owner

• Translate business product strategy into executable technical deliverables
• Manage complex product backlogs and drive tactical execution
• Mentor junior Technical Product Owners
• Create precise, AI-ready requirements using Given-When-Then (Gherkin) format
• Design solutions integrating AI capabilities such as LLMs, RAG, and agents where appropriate
• Use AI assistants for code generation, test creation, documentation, and learning
• Evaluate AI outputs and shape practices for prompt design, evaluation, and safety
• Author comprehensive user stories and acceptance criteria covering happy paths, edge cases, errors, integrations, security, performance, and compliance
• Document dependencies, integration points, and system interactions
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and technical leads
• Review and accept completed stories and validate production readiness
• Test delivered functionality across integration points and documented scenarios
• Coordinate with QA teams on acceptance criteria and automated testing
• Own, maintain, prioritize, and sequence complex user story backlogs
• Translate roadmaps into development-ready stories and break complex features into appropriately sized stories
• Make tactical trade-off decisions and create release plans
• Identify and escalate delivery risks and impediments
• Lead sprint planning, refinement, reviews, and retrospectives
• Partner with Scrum Masters, developers, architects, QA engineers, and designers
• Provide expert guidance during development and present completed work in sprint reviews
• Champion Agile and BDD practices
• Serve as senior contact between development teams and business stakeholders
• Facilitate requirements discovery sessions and lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Communicate sprint progress, release readiness, and risks
• Negotiate scope, priorities, and trade-offs
• Mentor and coach junior TPOs and review their stories
• Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and training
• Participate in or lead product owner communities of practice
• Drive adoption of tools, methodologies, and practices improving delivery effectiveness

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field
• 7–10 years as a TPO, Business Analyst, or Technical Product Owner in Agile teams
• Minimum 3–5 years at senior/lead level handling complex, enterprise-scale products
• Expert in writing detailed user stories with comprehensive acceptance criteria using Given-When-Then format
• Strong Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) experience
• Advanced technical acumen with system architecture, data models, APIs, and integration patterns
• Proven leadership within Agile/Scrum teams
• Expert proficiency with Agile tools (Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence)
• Outstanding communication skills and ability to influence senior stakeholders
• Experience mentoring junior team members
• Preferred: CSPO, A-CSPO, CPO, or PMI-ACP certification
• Preferred: Experience with BDD tools (Cucumber, SpecFlow, Behave)
• Preferred: Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.)
• Preferred: Understanding of test automation, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices
• Preferred: Background in software development, architecture, or QA
• Preferred: Experience leading product ownership for multiple teams

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Ground Floor opportunity with EZCORP
• Start-up, purpose-driven mentality
• Innovative and agile problem solving culture