The right candidate should be comfortable working in a fast-moving environment where business needs are urgent, systems are complex, and engineering ownership boundaries are still being formalized.
Insight on Your Impact
Act as the primary interface between business stakeholders, business analysts, users, and GEO engineering teams.
Collect, clarify, and organize business requests before they reach engineering teams.
Convert business needs into clear, engineering-ready backlog items with scope, acceptance criteria, priority, dependencies, and expected outcomes.
Protect engineering teams from unmanaged direct requests, unclear requirements, and shifting priorities.
Partner with Engineering Managers to align delivery plans with available engineering capacity.
Partner with Team Leads / Architects to confirm technical feasibility, dependencies, risks, and sequencing.
Maintain and prioritize product / delivery backlogs for assigned systems or product groups.
Coordinate delivery planning, sprint / iteration planning, release scope, and milestone tracking.
Facilitate communication between engineering teams, business stakeholders, QA, DevOps, DBA, Infrastructure, and other internal groups.
Coordinate UAT planning, user validation, acceptance criteria review, feedback collection, and release readiness.
Track delivery risks, scope changes, blockers, dependencies, and decisions that may affect timelines or business outcomes.
Communicate delivery status, risks, tradeoffs, and changes clearly to stakeholders and GEO leadership.
Help define release notes, user-facing communication, rollout plans, and post-release feedback loops.
Ensure that production issues, defects, enhancement requests, and technical debt items are captured, prioritized, and routed correctly.
Support incident follow-up by helping translate business impact into clear backlog items, corrective actions, or improvement requests.
Maintain practical documentation for product decisions, requirements, acceptance criteria, process flows, and stakeholder agreements.
Your Qualifications, Your Influence
5+ years of experience in product management, product ownership, delivery management, business systems delivery, or similar roles.
Experience working with internal software platforms, enterprise applications, ERP systems, warehouse systems, operations systems, or B2B transaction platforms.
Strong ability to translate business problems into clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and delivery priorities.
Experience managing software backlogs and coordinating delivery with engineering, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders.
Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle, including requirements, design, development, testing, UAT, release, and post-release support.
Practical experience working with Agile / Scrum / Kanban or similar delivery approaches.
Experience using Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar tools for backlog management, delivery tracking, documentation, and reporting.
Ability to manage competing priorities, ambiguous requirements, urgent stakeholder requests, and changing business needs.
Strong communication skills with the ability to explain delivery status, scope, tradeoffs, risks, and dependencies to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Ability to work with senior stakeholders while still staying close to daily delivery details.
Strong ownership mindset, structured thinking, and practical problem-solving skills.
Ability to build process discipline without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
Preferred Skills and Business Familiartity
Experience with software platforms used in supply chain, distribution, logistics, manufacturing, e-commerce, or electronic components industries.
Experience supporting internal business platforms used by sales, purchasing, warehouse, finance, operations, or customer service teams.
Experience with .NET / SQL Server-based enterprise systems or similar business-critical platforms.
Familiarity with mobile applications, warehouse workflows, computer vision, NLP, AI / ML use cases, or data-driven internal tools.
Experience coordinating delivery across globally distributed teams.
Experience working with business analysts, technical product owners, architects, QA leads, DevOps engineers, DBAs, and infrastructure teams.
Understanding of production support, defect triage, release readiness, and incident follow-up processes.
Experience improving backlog quality, acceptance criteria, UAT discipline, and stakeholder communication in an organization where process maturity is still developing.
Success in the First 90 Days
Understand assigned business systems, key stakeholders, current delivery flow, and major pain points.
Establish a clear intake and prioritization process for assigned product groups or systems.
Create or clean up the working backlog so engineering teams can see clear priorities, requirements, acceptance criteria, and dependencies.
Build working relationships with business stakeholders, Engineering Managers, Team Leads / Architects, QA, DevOps, DBA, and Infrastructure teams.
Improve visibility into current work, delivery risks, blockers, and upcoming releases.
Establish a practical UAT coordination process with business stakeholders and users.
Reduce unmanaged direct requests to engineers by routing work through the agreed intake and backlog process.
Identify major gaps in requirements quality, stakeholder alignment, release readiness, and delivery communication.
Start producing clear delivery status updates for GEO leadership and business stakeholders.
What This Role Does Not Own
This role does not own formal people management for engineers, QA, DevOps, DBA, or infrastructure staff.
This role does not make final technical architecture decisions. Technical decisions will be owned by Team Leads / Architects in partnership with Engineering Managers and GEO leadership.
This role does not independently commit engineering delivery dates without alignment with Engineering Managers and technical leaders.
This role does not replace business ownership. Business stakeholders remain responsible for business process decisions, final user acceptance, and business priority input.
Benefits
Competitive salary
Ongoing training and professional development opportunities
Collaborative global work environment
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