About this role
About the Role We are seeking a highly organized and proactive Technical Product Coordinator to own the health of our team's Jira backlog, drive execution planning across our product improvement initiatives, and serve as a key liaison between engineering leadership and customers. This role blends backlog management discipline with strategic planning and stakeholder communication. Key Responsibilities Backlog Jira Management • Own and maintain the team's Jira backlog, ensuring items are properly written, prioritized, labeled, and groomed • Facilitate backlog refinement sessions with engineering and product stakeholders • Ensure epics, stories, and tasks are appropriately scoped, sequenced, and linked to broader initiatives • Monitor sprint/cycle health, flag blockers, and maintain accurate status reporting, burndown, velocity, and throughput • Establish and enforce consistent ticket hygiene standards, naming conventions, acceptance criteria, and definition of done Jira Administration Optimization • Build and manage Jira automation rules to reduce manual work (e.g., auto-assigning issues, status transitions, notifications, SLA escalations) • Design and maintain Jira dashboards providing real-time visibility into sprint health, velocity, burndown/burnup, and cumulative flow • Build and manage timelines/roadmaps using Jira Timeline, Advanced Roadmaps, or Structure to visualize cross-team dependencies and delivery milestones • Use JQL (Jira Query Language) to create custom filters, saved searches, and reports for stakeholders • Maintain data integrity and consistent ticket hygiene, labeling, components, versions, and priorities across projects Execution Planning • Partner with engineering leads and product owners to build and maintain roadmaps for product improvements • Translate strategic priorities into actionable, sequenced execution plans with clear milestones and owners • Identify dependencies, risks, and resourcing gaps across concurrent workstreams • Track progress against plans and proactively surface schedule risks to leadership • Run regular planning cadences: sprint planning, quarterly roadmap reviews, and retrospectives Experience Required Senior Associate level with 4 years in IT and 1 year in Program Management. Expert in Project Management. Experience Preferred Customer Stakeholder Engagement • Serve as a point of contact for customers regarding product updates, timelines, and issue status • Gather and synthesize customer feedback into actionable backlog items • Build trusted relationships with internal and external stakeholders to align expectations • Support customer-facing meetings, demos, and check-ins as needed Communications • Draft and distribute regular status updates, release notes, and roadmap communications to stakeholders and leadership • Create clear, concise materials, decks, dashboards, and written summaries translating technical work into business-relevant language • Coordinate cross-team communication to ensure alignment on priorities and timelines • Manage announcements related to feature releases, changes, or known issues
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