Technical Product Owner

Technical Product Owner

Job Locations

US-TX-Southlake | US-TX-Austin

Requisition ID

2026-124639

Posted Date

48 minutes ago (9/24/2026 10:32 AM)

Category

Product & Project Management

Salary Range

USD $129,000.00 - $170,000.00 / Year

Application deadline

9/30/2026

Position Type

Full time

Your Opportunity

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

• We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s). *

• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without employer sponsorship. * Schwab Technology Services (STS) is investing in the integration of AI capabilities across the Software Development Life Cycle, and this role offers a unique opportunity to be part of that transformation from the outset. As a member of this team, you will help shape how AI is adopted and scaled across our enterprise development community, influencing modern engineering practices at a meaningful scale. You'll work at the intersection of developer experience, platform engineering, and applied AI, driving measurable improvements in productivity, quality, and engineering standards across the organization.

This is a highly visible role ideal for someone who had the product mindset that can translate enterprise AI strategy into clear priorities, actionable backlogs, and measurable outcomes for engineering teams. The Technical Product Owner (individual contributor) will combine strong Agile product ownership skills with technical fluency in software development and AI assisted engineering tools, while bringing collaboration, transparency, and adaptability needed to align stakeholders and scale adoption across the enterprise.

What you have

To ensure that we have fulfilled our promise of "challenging the status quo," this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.

Required Qualifications:

• 5-10 years of experience leading development of products and systems in a large, complex enterprise environment.

• Translate needs and business imperatives from product vision and roadmaps for use in setting priorities and guiding the work of the Scrum team(s).

• Ability to prioritize competing demands effectively and communicate tradeoffs, decisions, and progress clearly to key stakeholders.

• Ability to define success metrics, adoption goals, value measurement, and product KPIs.

• Be a great listener: Understand the value of listening to the development community needs and can understand the deeper underlying problem that needs to be addressed.

• Attitude of transparency: Desire and ability to bring disclosure and transparency to the Scrum team and grow trust between the business and development.

• Conflict resolution: Able to facilitate discussion of issues and different approaches and alternatives and effectively resolve issues in a timely manner.

• A thorough understanding and appreciation for Agile values and principles.

• Thorough understanding of and proven ability to:

• Write user stories and acceptance criteria

• Split large stories into smaller stories

• Refine, prioritize, and maintain the backlog

• Conduct Release planning

• Conduct Sprint planning

• Navigate the Sprint review activities

• Serve as key testing partner

• Strong grasp of software development and technology

Preferred Qualifications:

• Scrum Product Owner or Scrum Product Manager certification

• Prior experience using Jira and Rally

• Knowledge of AI-assisted developer tools such as GitHub Copilot, Copilot Chat, Claude Code, Cursor, Amazon Q Developer, or similar

• Technical fluency in software development, SDLC, DevOps, and engineering platforms

• Comfort working in ambiguity and helping teams move from experimentation to scalable enterprise adoption

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.