Technical Product Owner

TERMS : Permanent role

Location : onsite Downers Grove, IL

We need someone coming from the electronics / Connection Manufacturing industry.

The Technical Product Owner for a new Digital Marketing capability will be overseeing the design, implementation, and maintenance of the technical solution to enable the vision of the Global Sales & Marketing organization to enable an integrated digital network spanning multiple platforms supporting the customer journey.

Our Team

Our team is the key technology partner for the Global Sales and Marketing team. We ignite customer advantage through digital innovation focused on Customer Experience, both internally for our employees and externally for our customers and partners.

We are global, working as one team’, leveraging Principle Based Management to continually innovate and enable forward-thinking strategies.

What You Will Do

• Define and articulate the technical vision and strategy for the M2X product, aligning with business goals and customer needs.
• Manage and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring that the team is focused on delivering high-impact features and improvements.
• Translate business requirements into detailed technical specifications and user stories for the development team.
• Work closely with engineers to guide and support the development of APIs and integrations that enhance our presence on 3rd party platforms.
• Collaborate with data analysts to leverage user insight data for product enhancements and personalized marketing strategies.
• Define acceptance criteria for backlog items and ensure that the delivered solutions meet these criteria.
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure alignment and understanding of product development progress.
• Monitor market trends and emerging technologies in digital marketing to identify opportunities for innovation and improvement.
• Ensure product quality and manage technical debt to maintain a high standard of performance and reliability.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Demonstrated experience as a Product Owner, leveraging Agile methodologies such as Scrum.
• Proven experience driving commercial and go-to-market technologies for large, global organizations.
• Deep understanding of modern cloud-based platforms and related technologies.
• Proven experience leveraging technology to achieve real-time or near-real-time data exchange, including event-driven architecture, message queues, Web Sockets, APIs, and stream processing.
• Experience leading technical teams, with the ability to be hands on with building when needed.
• Excellent analytical skills and the ability to translate data into actionable insights, serving up key decision points to the business.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience with Digital Asset Managers (DAM) such as AEM and Product Information Management Systems (PIM) such as Salsify.
• Experience with Salesforce, SAP, Pricing Systems, Data Models, and API development.
• Experience with implementing ecommerce solutions and familiarity with technical aspects of those platforms.
• Experience working in the global electronics components industry, with a preference in the interconnect segment.
• An understanding of global customer journey including solution discovery, design, evaluation, and procurement.
• Awareness of digital platforms and how users including aggregators, platform providers, and distribution partners engage with them.

EEO STATEMENT :

Solution Partners is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer that values and actively seeks diversity in the workforce.

Solution Partners evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and other legally-protected characteristics.