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# Senior Technical Product Owner

- **Company:** Cogent Inc
- **Location:** Mundelein, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Collaborative Software, Cursor, Github, Scrum Methodology, Requirements Management, Requirements Traceability, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Devsecops
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/b186c7e1-8339-4f70-9041-f87b498c6376/senior-technical-product-owner

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
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 * 10+ years of experience in product ownership, technical business analysis, or a related discipline.
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 * Proven experience defining product vision, developing roadmaps, and translating stakeholder needs into technical specifications and user stories.
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 * Experience working directly with business stakeholders, senior leadership, business analysts, engineers, and architects.
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 * Ability to assess technical feasibility and contribute to informed technology and integration decisions.
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 * Working knowledge of source-control and developer-collaboration platforms such as GitHub.
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 * Familiarity with technical authoring and research-collaboration platforms such as Overleaf, as well as file-collaboration and research-sharing platforms.
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 * Strong understanding of requirements traceability, prioritization, and product delivery processes.
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 * Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to bridge technical and non-technical audiences.
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 * Ability to manage competing priorities across multiple stakeholders and workstreams.
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 * Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or Cursor.
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 * Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO), SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM), or equivalent certification.
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 * Experience supporting research collaboration, academic partnerships, or external-stakeholder initiatives.
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 * Familiarity with Agile delivery methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban.
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 * Previous federal government experience.
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 * Experience working in DevSecOps, platform engineering, or developer-tooling environments.

## Description

The ideal candidate combines strong product ownership and requirements management experience with practical technical knowledge of developer collaboration, source-control systems, technical authoring platforms, and file-sharing technologies. This role will work closely with business stakeholders, engineers, DevSecOps teams, and platform architects to translate research-collaboration needs into technical requirements, user stories, and feasible integration strategies., The successful candidate will be comfortable evaluating platform capabilities, identifying technical constraints, assessing architectural tradeoffs, and ensuring that product priorities align with broader platform objectives.