Director, Product Ownership

The Product Ownership Director serves as the strategic liaison between the business, technology, and technical vendors for a portfolio of business-critical technology products and capabilities. This role partners with senior leaders to understand ATC’s needs and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, support growth, mitigate risk, and drive competitive advantage. The Director owns and governs product roadmaps, translates business priorities into technology initiatives, influences investment decisions, and ensures measurable business value is delivered.

The Director also leads and develops Product Owners by setting priorities, coaching performance, and aligning team resources with business and technology objectives.

• Leads strategic discussions with business and technology leaders to understand business problems, enterprise priorities, and workable solutions.
• Creates a collaborative environment that encourages team member participation and open discussion of risks, tradeoffs, and opportunities.
• Integrates multiple perspectives into technically sound, scalable solutions that align with enterprise strategy.
• Obtains executive and stakeholder buy-in for product roadmaps, project plans, and strategic initiatives.
• Provides leadership, guidance, and development opportunities to Product Owners, supporting their continued growth and success.

• Fosters continuous improvement across assigned business areas and capabilities.
• Works with leaders to ease concerns, build buy-in, and support adoption of organizational and technology changes.
• Connects ATC’s mission and business drivers to technology strategy, data, and roadmaps.
• Leads change initiatives by communicating impacts, addressing concerns, and driving sustained adoption.
• Drives major implementations, removes barriers, and ensures business readiness.

• Provides leadership and review for product owner, analyst, and cross-functional team work to ensure requirements, recommendations, and solution designs meet business, technical, and strategic expectations.
• Directs the translation of ambiguous business requirements into clear strategies, technical requirements, epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes.
• Uses deep functional knowledge of assigned business verticals to influence strategy, prioritization, and scalable solution design.
• Oversees prioritization of business tickets, corrections, enhancements, and capability gaps to ensure alignment with roadmap, risk, and business value.
• Conducts product reviews, build/buy/remediate analysis, ROI analysis, business cases, and recommendations for budgeting and steering committee review.

• Directs work breakdown, resource planning, team assignments, and use of project management tools to ensure visibility and accountability.
• Keeps project teams, business sponsors, and executive stakeholders aligned on deliverables, dependencies, risks, and decisions.
• Communicates executive-level status, risks, financial impacts, tradeoffs, and recommendations.
• Recommends adjustments to scope, timeline, budget, and sequencing to maintain delivery of the highest business value.
• Develops and governs multi-year roadmaps aligned to IT strategy, business strategy, budget priorities, and enterprise architecture.
• Establishes team goals, monitors progress, removes barriers, and holds team members accountable for execution and business value delivery.

• Establishes solution management and agile delivery practices that support strategic business outcomes.
• Collaborates with stakeholders, architects, and delivery teams to prioritize initiatives and align delivery with roadmap objectives.
• Ensures quality, release readiness, and operational…