Technical Product Owner

Your Job

In your role as Technical Product Owner, you will be responsible for leading the strategy, roadmap, transformation and operational excellence of your product. Within the broader DMET (Data Management, Enablement and Transformation) team, your products will be utilized by Tax, Accounting, and the Koch organization at large.
You will work alongside Product Managers, Data Product Owners, Key Stakeholders, and Delivery Leads to define the product vision and roadmap, and to identify and prioritize requirements to deliver solutions that align with organizational goals. You will also work alongside a team of data analysts, engineers and architects to develop resilient solutions, lower cost of change, simplify complexity, and profitably innovate. As a part of this process, you will collaborate with our business partners to understand their needs and help prioritize business outcomes. You will partner closely with vendors to drive resolution of bugs, understand impacts of application changes, and prioritize proposed future enhancements.

Our Team

The DMET team is focused on developing a long-term sustainable capability utilizing data and technology to transform finance. This includes a diverse group with multiple teams focused on data platform technologies, specific data products and transformation with an emphasis on data security. Our strategy will empower the finance and tax organizations to create superior value while consuming fewer resources, unlocking analytical capabilities, mitigating risk, and meeting ever-changing regulatory requirements.

This role is not eligible for VISA sponsorship

What You Will Do

• Ow n business outcomes, total cost of ownership (TCO), vendor relationship, product roadmap, backlog, story writing, and feature prioritization.
• Provide direction and prioritization to the product team based on business value, technical feasibility, and other relevant factors.
• Maintain deep technical understanding of solutions and architecture.
• Drive accountability within our product team and product vendors for business outcome driven deliverables.
• Actively participate in agile team ceremonies (refinement, planning, reviews)
• Translating business needs into actionable engineering/SRE (Operations) work
• Work directly with vendors to stay up to date on new features, enhancements, product retirements and changes.
• Develop the strategy, roadmap, and continuous improvements to enable the product team or to optimize existing processes and have a long-term strategy and vision for the product within the stack.
• Plan and organize functional work assignments for your product team with agile concepts and frameworks. Maintain and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring it is well-groomed, up-to-date, and aligned with the product vision.
• Engage in analysis and decision-making processes for new initiatives.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and technology vendors to understand their capabilities and strategic roadmaps, while seeking to align with leadership and stakeholders on their current initiatives.
• Track value measures and use data as a strategic asset in decision making.
• Ensure the scalability, performance, and resilience of each application.
• Plan and organize functional work assignments for your product team with agile concepts and frameworks.
• Partner with business leaders and architects to stay abreast of market trends and to drive creative destruction, where profitable .

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience as an IT product owner
• Experience with AWS Cloud Services.
• Knowledge of Semantic Layer (i.e. dbt, AtScale, etc) and/or Business Intelligence Visualization (i.e. Tableu, Sigma, Alteryx, PowerBI, etc.)
• Experience being a strong business partner and understanding their strategies to support them
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with stakeholders across multiple businesses.
• Experience with formal or informal leadership.
• Proven ability to manage complex projects and prioritize tasks effectively.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Relevant work experience in Project Management.
• Relevant knowledge of Accounting, Finance, and/or Tax.
• Working within an Agile environment is preferred.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Who We Are

Koch creates and innovates a wide spectrum of products and services that make life better. Our work spans a vast number of industries across the world, including engineered technology, refining, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, glass, electronics and many more. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Koch employs about 120,000 employees across the globe.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here , aquí , or tu ).

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