Hybrid Technical Product Owner

at Rockwell Automation

• Job title: Technical Product Owner
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Azure
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Verona, Italy

About the role

• Technical Product Owner responsible for driving the engineering backlog and ensuring high-quality outcomes for software teams at Rockwell Automation. Requires strong collaboration with product management and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the engineering backlog (epics, capabilities, enablers, and stories), ensuring items are well-defined, prioritized, estimated, and ready for execution by Scrum/Kanban teams.
• Translate product requirements, architectural intent, and non-functional requirements into technically sound backlog items with clear acceptance criteria.
• Ensure traceability across requirements, design, implementation, and test where required (e.g., regulated or integration-heavy contexts).
• Work with Product Managers to agree on product goals, scope, and priorities, while representing engineering feasibility, sequencing, and dependencies.
• Collaborate with Architects and Technical Leads to understand and evolve the technical vision, system architecture, and cross-component dependencies.
• Support 2–3 cross-functional software teams by providing continuous clarification, fast feedback, on technical scope and trade-offs.
• Ensure that quality, security, performance, and operability concerns are addressed early ('shift-left') and explicitly captured in backlog items.
• Manage technical risks, dependencies, and integration constraints, escalating and aligning across teams and stakeholders when required.
• Support planning and synchronization across distributed, multi-campus teams, contributing to shared milestones, demos, and integration checkpoints.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 3+ years of experience as a Technical Product Owner, Product Owner, System Analyst, or similar role in software-intensive products or platforms.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, system integration, and the full software delivery lifecycle, including validation and quality practices.
• Proven ability to work with architects, senior engineers, and cross-functional teams to shape technically coherent solutions.
• Experience writing clear, testable backlog items with meaningful acceptance criteria and non-functional requirements.
• Fluent in English (multi-campus / distributed environment).
• Familiarity with Agile and ALM tools (e.g., Jira, Jama, Jira Align, Azure DevOps, Teams).

Benefits

• Volunteer Paid Time off available after 6 months of employment for eligible employees
• Company volunteer and donation matching program – Your volunteer hours or personal cash donations to an eligible charity can be matched with a charitable donation.
• On-demand digital course library for professional development
• Comprehensive mindfulness programs with a premium membership to Calm
• Employee Assistance Program
• Personalized wellbeing programs through our OnTrack program
• Other local benefits!