Lead Product Owner

Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Roadmap

• Define and maintain the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Integration Services.
• Partner with business stakeholders to identify integration opportunities and prioritize capabilities based on business value.
• Establish and communicate product goals, KPIs, and success metrics.
• Align roadmap priorities with organizational objectives and deployment plans.
• Drive standardization and reuse of integration patterns across programs.

Product Ownership & Backlog Management

• Own and maintain the integration services product backlog.
• Translate business requirements into Epics, Features, and User Stories.
• Prioritize backlog based on business value, technical dependencies, deployment readiness, and operational impact.
• Define acceptance criteria and ensure stakeholder alignment.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including PI Planning, Sprint Planning, Reviews, and Retrospectives.

Engineering & Delivery Collaboration

• Work closely with Engineering Managers, Architects, and Technical Leads to guide solution delivery.
• Ensure delivered solutions meet functional, non-functional, security, scalability, and operational requirements.
• Support engineering teams with business clarification and decision-making.
• Drive release readiness and deployment planning.
• Monitor delivery progress and proactively manage risks and dependencies.

Dealer Deployment & Adoption

• Collaborate with Deployment and Enablement teams to support onboarding and adoption initiatives.
• Ensure integration capabilities align with deployment requirements.
• Partner with dealer stakeholders to gather feedback and continuously improve the product.
• Support deployment planning, rollout governance, and hyper-care activities.
• Measure product adoption and business outcomes.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary point of contact for business and technology stakeholders.
• Facilitate prioritization decisions among competing demands.
• Communicate roadmap updates, release plans, status, risks, and dependencies.
• Drive alignment across Product, Engineering, Architecture, QA, DevOps, Release Management, and Operations teams.

Governance & Continuous Improvement

• Ensure compliance with enterprise standards, architecture principles, and governance requirements.
• Drive process improvements to improve predictability, quality, and operational efficiency.
• Support audit, security, and operational readiness initiatives.
• Champion Agile and SAFe product management best practices.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in Product Ownership, Product Management, Business Analysis, or Enterprise Integration.
• Strong experience with API-led integration, event-driven architecture, cloud platforms, and microservices.
• Experience working with Azure Integration Services, Azure API Management, Event Grid/Event Hub, Service Bus, or similar technologies.
• Proven experience managing enterprise-scale product backlogs and roadmaps.
• Strong understanding of Agile and SAFe methodologies.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams and stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and decision-making skills.
• Experience supporting large-scale dealer, B2B, or enterprise integration ecosystems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with integration governance, API strategy, and platform product management.
• SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM) certification.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub and product analytics tools.
• Knowledge of enterprise data integration, event-driven systems, and digital transformation programs.