Technical Product Owner

OCRA

Job Overview

Location

Chicago

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• As the Technical Product Owner, you are responsible for day-to-day delivery execution. This role is squarely focused on turning business needs into clear, actionable engineering work and ensuring that work ships predictably and at quality.
• You act as the connective tissue between stakeholders and engineering, ensuring the team always knows what to build, why it matters, and when it is done.
• The primary responsibilities include leading core agile ceremonies, owning sprint execution, maintaining visibility into delivery health, throughput, and progress, removing operational, technical, and cross-functional obstacles, ensuring stories are sprint-ready and QA standards are met, and communicating clear, consistent status updates to stakeholders.
• The Technical Product Owner is also responsible for translating business needs into clear, outcome-driven requirements, writing well-scoped user stories with explicit acceptance criteria, grooming and prioritizing the backlog based on value, urgency, and constraints, ensuring backlog readiness before sprint planning, balancing feature delivery, technical debt, and operational needs, making real-time scope and priority decisions as constraints evolve, reviewing completed work and accepting/rejecting based on defined standards, and maintaining visibility into PDLC readiness, dependencies, and upcoming work.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience in agile delivery management and/or technical product ownership
• Proven ability to run sprints and drive execution in fast-paced environments
• Strong competency writing clear, buildable, testable user stories
• Experience managing backlogs and prioritizing against business impact
• Comfortable making scope and tradeoff decisions under time constraints
• Strong cross-functional communication and stakeholder management skills
• Detail-oriented with a focus on throughput, clarity, and shipped outcomes
• Hands-on, execution-driven mindset with engineering-first thinking

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary w/ ancillary earning opportunities
• Comprehensive benefits: medical, dental, & vision
• Flexible work-from-anywhere policy
• Unlimited PTO that supports work-life balance
• Stock option incentive plan
• Company-sponsored 401k
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and growing company
• Collaborative and supportive work environment
• Training and ongoing professional development

Skills & Technologies

Product Management

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About OCRA

OCRA is a leading provider of innovative solutions for the food and beverage industry. The company specializes in developing and implementing advanced technologies that enhance efficiency, quality, and sustainability throughout the food production lifecycle. OCRA's offerings include intelligent automation systems, data analytics platforms, and customized consulting services designed to address the unique challenges faced by food manufacturers and distributors. By leveraging cutting-edge artificial intelligence and machine learning, OCRA empowers its clients to optimize their operations, reduce waste, and ensure compliance with stringent regulatory standards. Their commitment to research and development ensures they remain at the forefront of technological advancements, providing clients with a competitive edge.

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