Technical Product Owner

About Wealth Enhancement
Wealth Enhancement is an independent wealth management firm with an endless passion for enriching the lives of our clients. We continually seek to perfect our craft of personalized financial planning with our team-based Roundtable and UniFi processes that go far beyond the standard approach. We proudly provide unique financial plans and investment management services to over 90,000 households from our over 175 offices - and growing - nationwide.
Since 1997, Wealth Enhancement has tirelessly raised the standard of wealth management with specialized knowledge and more attentive service that helps every client craft their future. For more information, please visit www.wealthenhancement.com.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Technical Product Owner! The Technical Product Owner is accountable for maximizing the value delivered by technical services within the enterprise ecosystem. This role owns the backlog for their product domain and ensures that engineering efforts are aligned to strategic priorities, operational stability, and continuous improvement objectives. The Product Owner partners closely with Product Managers, shared development resources, architecture, and business stakeholders to translate strategic initiatives into executable work. The role is responsible for prioritization, defect management, and ensuring technical services are scalable, reliable, and aligned with enterprise standards. This is a Remote position. In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share the base salary range for this position is $110,000 to $120,000, exclusive of bonuses and benefits. We encourage you to apply and provide us with your compensation expectations when you do. We're big on open conversations, so, let's have one. Primary Job FunctionsBacklog Ownership & Prioritization
Serve as the single owner of the development backlog for the assigned technical service(s) or platform capability.
Translate strategic initiatives and business requirements into clearly defined development work with measurable acceptance criteria.
Prioritize backlog items based on business value, technical risk, regulatory requirements, and dependencies.
Maintain backlog hygiene, ensuring items are clearly defined, appropriately estimated, and ready for development.
Balance new feature development, defect remediation, technical debt reduction, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Execution & Delivery
Own the delivery of development work from planning through completion, coordinating priorities, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder input.
Clarify requirements and acceptance criteria for development teams throughout the delivery lifecycle.
Accept or reject completed work based on defined acceptance criteria.
Remove ambiguity and make timely scope and priority decisions to avoid delivery delays.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Partner with Product Managers to align tactical delivery with strategic roadmaps.
Collaborate with Business stakeholders to gather requirements and validate solutions.
Work closely with Architecture and Shared Development teams to ensure scalable, compliant solutions.
Coordinate crossteam dependencies within the broader ecosystem.
Defect & Service Ownership
Own triage and prioritization of defects related to the assigned product area.
Ensure appropriate root cause analysis is conducted for production issues.
Prioritize remediation efforts to maintain service reliability and performance.
Partner with engineering to proactively reduce recurring defects and technical debt.
Innovation and Continuous Improvement
Stay informed on emerging technologies, tools, and best practices relevant to the product domain.
Identify opportunities to improve automation, scalability, integration, and operational efficiency.
Use metrics and stakeholder feedback to drive iterative product enhancements.
Continuously improve backlog quality, delivery predictability, and team effectiveness.
Stakeholder Communication
Provide clear visibility into backlog priorities, sprint commitments, risks, and trade-offs.
Ensure alignment between business expectations and technical delivery timelines.
Serve as the primary point of contact for product execution within scope.
Ensure Compliance with federal, state and local employment regulations
Monitor current and pending legislation; create or update related company policies
Review and update the employee handbook annually and as needed throughout the year
Develop internal communications and training programs for employees to aid in understanding and applying compliant employment practices
Improve service quality by using AI and digital tools
Use approved AI and digital tools to simplify work, improve service quality, and increase efficiency, while validating outputs for accuracy, privacy, and business alignment.
Identify and escalate inaccurate information and knowledge gaps, or issues related to digital tools
Education/Qualifications
Bachelor's degree or equivalent, demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
Experience in Financial Services or equivalent experience is strongly preferred
Minimum 5 years in Business Analyst, Development, Product Owner, Product Manager roles or other related technology experience
Minimum of 2 years’ experience with Agile Development
Superior verbal and written communication skills
Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software
Familiarity with Salesforce, Orion, Tamarac, or similar platforms
AI Literacy:
Demonstrated ability to effectively use AI tools and technologies in daily work tasks.
Requirements include understanding how to craft effective prompts, evaluate AI-generated content for accuracy and appropriateness, and integrate AI tools to enhance productivity while maintaining quality standards.