Technical Product Owner

About Recurly:

Recurly, Inc. provides a versatile subscription management platform to manage the entire subscription lifecycle for market-leading brands worldwide. Subscription businesses such as Sling TV, BarkBox, FabFitFun, Cinemark and Fubo.tv depend on Recurly to harness the power of the subscription model and drive recurring revenue growth. Since its launch in 2009, Recurly has deployed subscription billing for thousands of companies across 42 countries. Our platform empowers billions of credit card transactions and has enabled customers to recover $450 million + in Revenue.

Recurly is backed by Accel-KKR, a leading technology-focused private equity firm with over $9 billion in capital commitments. The partnership offers Recurly access to significant capital and resources to make continued investments in technology and platform innovation and expand our go-to-market initiatives.

Since 2009, Recurly has provided enterprise-class recurring billing, revenue optimization, and subscription management services for thousands of businesses worldwide, processing more than 5 billion dollars in transaction volume annually.  With that in mind, we are looking for an energetic and dynamic candidate to help build our subscription management solutions and infrastructure. You will be a key component to ensuring the continued success during our rapid growth, and your impact and contribution to the bottom line will be significant. 

We are looking for a Technical Product Owner with a strong technical background. This individual will bridge the gap between business and technical within software development, ensuring that the engineering deliverables accomplish our strategic roadmap. 

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Building and maintaining the backlog to achieve strategic objectives, ensuring that the prioritization carries through from intake to delivery 
• Identifying risks and dependencies to support the development team in delivering the highest quality code
• Ability to read and translate technical specs into actionable stories 
• Converting product and technical requests into functional user stories - taking the product strategy and design and making it a reality 
• Owning the delivery of the feature to meet the user functionality requested
• Refining user stories and technical requirements through collaboration with product and agile delivery teams
• Balancing priorities to address technical and functional health of the platform
• Creating technical and product documentation on features delivered 
• Ensuring alignment and clarity around the objective throughout all stages of delivery 
• Work directly with partners, to clarify requirements and ensure solution will deliver value to end users

Required Skills & Experience

• Deep technical and business knowledge of subscription management solutions and emerging trends
• 3+ years experience as a Technical Product owner 
• Strong balance of business knowledge and technical skills
• Experience managing and prioritizing a backlog of both product feature requests and technical enhancements
• Strong collaboration with product and agile delivery teams
• Experience with Agile, Scrum, or Kanban methodologies
• Self-motivated, with a strong desire to learn and improve
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Benefits:

As a full-time employee, Recurly offers competitive benefits programs, perks and options designed to fit your needs and the needs of your family. We offer medical, dental and vision benefits and a menu from which to choose options that work best for you and eligible dependents. We also offer life insurance, short and long-term disability, hospital indemnity, critical illness coverage, employee accident protection, health savings account (HSA) with company contribution & flexible spending account (FSA) options, employee assistance program, Legal and Pet Insurance.

Other perks may include:

401(k) Retirement Plan and company match

Company equity

Flex Time Off

Company Events

Training/Development

Tuition reimbursement

Commuter benefits

Volunteer opportunities

Monthly internet stipend

Recurly is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, age, race, religion, or any other classification which is protected by applicable law. Recurly is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected]