Technical Product Owner – Platform

Description

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

The Technical Product Owner – Platform serves as the bridge between Product Management, application teams and Platform Engineering, ensuring platform requirements are clearly understood, technically sound, and ready for implementation. This role does not set the product vision; instead, it translates strategic direction from product management and requirements from various application teams into detailed, actionable work for the platform engineering team. Embedded within the platform engineering organization, the TPO ensures the delivery of reliable, scalable, and secure platform capabilities used by internal development teams and services.

This is not a purely business-facing product role — strong technical fluency is essential.

LOCATION & WORK ARRANGEMENT

Open to candidates based in San Francisco Bay Area or Seattle, WA

On‑site role with presence aligned to local team cadence and needs

RESPONSIBILITIES

Requirement Translation & Alignment

- Translate product strategy and high‑level requirements into detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, estimates, and technical specifications.

- Serve as the primary liaison between product managers, engineers, architects, and stakeholders, ensuring full clarity on scope, constraints, and dependencies.

- Validate technical feasibility and align requirements with platform architecture, engineering standards, and operational realities.

Backlog Ownership & Prioritization

- Maintain and refine the engineering backlog, ensuring stories are well‑defined, prioritized, and ready for development.

- Prioritize work based on product objectives, technical value, and platform health—including reliability, maintainability, and security.

- Balance new feature enablement with platform lifecycle needs such as modernization, tech debt reduction, and performance improvements.

Execution & Delivery Support

- Drive agile ceremonies with engineering teams (refinement, planning, story reviews), ensuring high-quality requirements and smooth execution.

- Clarify edge cases, workflows, integrations, and technical nuances throughout the development process.

- Coordinate cross‑team dependencies and ensure engineering teams have what they need to deliver on commitments.

Platform Technical Understanding

- Build a deep understanding of platform architecture, cloud infrastructure, developer workflows, and operational constraints.

- Partner closely with architects, SREs, and engineering leads to ensure requirements align with technical best practices.

- Advocate for scalability, resiliency, observability, and cost optimization in all platform enhancements.

Stakeholder Communication

- Provide clear updates on progress, risks, and trade-offs to product managers and engineering leadership.

- Ensure alignment between product strategy, engineering capacity, and release timelines.

- Represent engineering considerations when discussing scope or priority with Product Management.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years in a Product Owner, Technical Product Owner, Business Analyst, or similar role supporting engineering teams. - 3+ years as a software development engineer

- Strong understanding of cloud platforms, infrastructure services, and platform engineering concepts.

- Experience translating business requirements into detailed technical stories.

- Excellent collaboration and communication skills across technical and non‑technical teams.

- Travel may be required up to 10%, depending on business needs

- Solid understanding of agile development practices.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience supporting internal developer platforms or platform engineering teams.

- Familiarity with Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and cloud security.

- Relevant cloud certifications or Agile Product Owner certification.

Hanwha Q CELLS Technologies, Inc. a subsidiary of Hanwha Q CELLS, one of the world´s largest and most recognized photovoltaic manufacturers for its high-performance, high-quality solar cells and modules. It is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea (Global Executive HQ) Talheim, Germany (Technology & Innovation HQ) and Santa Clara, CA, USA (HW and SW Product Development HQ). Through its growing global business network spanning Europe, North America, Asia, South America, Africa, and the Middle East, the company provides excellent services and long-term partnerships to its customers in the utility, commercial, government, and residential markets. Hanwha Q CELLS is a flagship company of Hanwha Group, a FORTUNE Global 500 firm and a Top 7 business enterprise in South Korea.

PHYSICAL, MENTAL & ENVIRONMENTAL DEMANDS:

To comply with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 the essential physical, mental and environmental requirements for this job are listed below. These are requirements normally expected to perform regular job duties. Incumbent must be able to successfully perform all of the functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.

Mobility

Standing

20% of time

Sitting

70% of time

Walking

10% of time

Strength

Pulling

up to 10 Pounds

Pushing

up to 10 Pounds

Carrying

up to 10 Pounds

Lifting

up to 10 Pounds

Dexterity (F = Frequently, O = Occasionally, N = Never)

Typing

F

Handling

F

Reaching

F

Agility (F = Frequently, O = Occasionally, N = Never)

Turning

F

Twisting

F

Bending

O

Crouching

O

Balancing

N

Climbing

N

Crawling

N

Kneeling

N

The salary range is required by the California Pay Transparency Act and may differ depending on the location of those candidates hired nationwide. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to, skill set, education, licenses and certifications, essential job duties and requirements, and the necessary experience relative to the job’s minimum qualifications.

- This target salary range is for CA positions only and should not be interpreted as an offer of compensation.

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