Associate Director, Product Owner

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The Technical Product Owner (TPO) drives end‑to‑end delivery of digital and technology products within Agile squads. The role bridges business, product strategy, and engineering execution, ensuring that technical solutions align with product vision, scalability, and enterprise architecture.

Works closely with Product Managers, Engineering Leads, Architects, and UX teams to translate strategic roadmaps into technology-ready backlogs and deliverables

Job Responsibilities

Product & Technical Ownership

Own and manage the technical product backlog, ensuring clear prioritisation aligned to business and technical goals

Translate product requirements into detailed technical user stories, acceptance criteria, and solution designs

Ensure alignment with architecture, APIs, data flows, and integration patterns

Delivery & Execution

Work closely with engineering teams to drive sprint planning, backlog grooming, and delivery execution

Remove blockers and ensure smooth end‑to‑end delivery across systems and dependencies

Validate delivered features against functional and technical acceptance criteria

Stakeholder & Squad Alignment

Act as the primary interface between product, business, and engineering teams

Collaborate with architects, DevOps, security, and platform teams to ensure compliant and scalable solutions

Manage dependencies across multiple systems, vendors, and markets

Technical Design & Governance

Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture, security, and compliance standards

Review and validate API contracts, integration design, and system interactions

Support technical decision-making with trade-offs between speed, cost, and scalability

Data-Driven Product Development

Leverage data and insights to inform product decisions and

Track product and technical KPIs (performance, reliability, adoption)

Drive continuous improvement through experimentation and feedback loops

Job Requirements

Proven experience as a Technical Product Owner / Product Owner / Delivery Lead in Agile environments

Understanding of:

APIs, microservices, cloud platforms (e.g. Azure / AWS)

System integrations and middleware

Data platforms and analytics

Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements backlog (epics, stories)

Strong stakeholder management across business and engineering teams to conduct backlog grooming, prioritisation decisions based on business value

Experience with design tool to conduct conceptual designs using figma Maker

Good understanding of design from usability, user experience principles perspective.

Experience working in cross-functional squads and large enterprise environments

Experience in agency insurance, digital journeys, and tech product management

Exposure to AI / GenAI will be a plus

Experience in multi-market or partner-integrated ecosystems

Core Skills

Backlog management & prioritisation

API & integration understanding

Stakeholder management & communication

Data-driven decision making

Problem solving with technical depth

Success Profile

Balances business priorities with technical feasibility

Drives execution with strong ownership and accountability

Able to navigate complex ecosystems (partners, platforms, markets)

Communicates effectively with both engineering and leadership stakeholders