Technical Product Owner

**Position: Technical Product Owner (TPO)** **Role Summary:** Own vision and prioritization of new features and/or enhancements to a product/platform and help translate business needs into prioritized user stories; accountable for value delivery and value realization at the squad level. **Responsibilities / Key Jobs to be Done:** - Act as Product Owner for global regulatory systems and solutions, ensuring alignment with business goals and compliance. - Gather, analyze, and document business from regulatory stakeholders across global regions, ensuring clarity and completeness. - Comfortable working with business users, project managers, vendors, and senior leadership. - Manage product backlogs in JIRA, defining clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and prioritization based on business value. - Collaborate with development, QA, and regulatory teams to ensure product features meet both technical specifications and regulatory standards. - Facilitate workshops, sessions, and backlog grooming using Confluence for documentation and collaboration. - Drive solution design discussions, ensuring integration with existing regulatory and submission management platforms. - Oversee end-to-end delivery of regulatory systems enhancements, including planning, testing, validation, and deployment. - Ensure adherence to pharmaceutical regulatory frameworks (e.g., FDA, EMA, ICH) and compliance with data integrity and GxP standards. - Partner with IT, quality, and compliance teams to manage change control and validation activities for regulated systems. - Provide thought leadership on digital tools and process optimization in the global regulatory affairs space. - Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) by developing test scenarios, coordinating execution with business users, and validating results against. - Track, triage, and resolve defects identified during UAT, working closely with developers and testers to ensure timely fixes. - Participate in and lead daily Scrum stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives to ensure team alignment and delivery velocity. **Key Skills:** - Proven knowledge and understanding of standard practices, technology, and supporting industry principles. - Experience gathering and translating them into a product vision by leveraging expertise in product development, engineering, and UX. - Deep understanding of business processes and high-level understanding of high-quality digital product delivery. - Experienced in managing a product backlog/release plan, tracking team-level metrics, attending product team ceremonies, and removing blockers. - Experienced in developing systems and tools to enable customer interactions and collaboration (e.g., digital self, precision marketing, DAM, immersive technology). **Product / Digital Expertise:** - Understanding of customer journeys and customer experience. - Foundational skills in Data Engineering, Cybersecurity, Intelligent Automation, and Emerging Technology. **Leadership Skills and Behaviors:** - Creates a culture that relentlessly focuses on helping the people and organizations we touch. - Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion by ensuring the attraction, development, and retention of talent that reflects the communities served. - Focuses on business agility, Agile delivery with a fail-fast mindset, and measurable outcomes. - Demonstrated success in leading cross-functional self-organized teams. - Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.