• Translate strategic objectives into well-defined epics, user stories, and technical acceptance criteria that enable autonomous, high-velocity engineering execution; • Translate strategy into detailed epics, user stories, and technical acceptance criteria that guide engineering execution. • Partner with architects to ensure system designs meet performance, security, and compliance standards across environments. • Lead backlog prioritization to maintain velocity and technical quality. • Act as a hands-on, embedded technical product leader, stepping in where needed across discovery, design, delivery, and troubleshooting to unblock teams, accelerate progress, and ensure alignment across disciplines. • Directly contribute to execution when needed (e.g., prototypes/spikes, debugging, performance tuning, instrumentation/observability, automation/CI/CD improvements) to unblock delivery and accelerate outcomes. • Leverage data instrumentation, analytics, and observability tools to assess product health, performance, and ROI. • Contribute to DevOps practices, CI/CD optimization, and automation efforts to improve release reliability and deployment speed. • Establish cycle time, flow efficiency, and throughput as primary KPIs; accountable for demonstrable improvement across assigned product areas. • Model and institutionalize AI-native product and engineering practices, including AI-assisted discovery, design, coding, testing, and operations. • Influence prioritization, sequencing, and technical investment decisions to optimize flow, balancing feature delivery, platform health, and technical debt reduction to sustain long-term velocity gains. • Partner with software engineering, architecture, and infrastructure leaders to shape technical direction and operating models that remove friction, reduce cycle time, and enable predictable, high-throughput delivery. • Lead technical discovery and product design sessions, serving as subject matter expert (SME), converting complex business and operational needs into well-structured platform capabilities; • Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) for assigned products, fully owning knowledge of functionality, architecture, dependencies, and integration points. • Own outcomes across 2-4 product areas by driving cross-team dependency alignment, surfacing tradeoffs, and ensuring initiatives ship to measurable impact. • Promote hands-on collaboration between Product, Engineering, and Service Delivery, fostering a culture of transparency, experimentation, and continuous learning. • Introduce and train teams on modern product management methodologies, emphasizing discovery-driven development and customer-centric design.