Cross-Domain and Delivery Expectations
§ Lead a product line and drive its overall performance, strategy, and success across the full lifecycle from concept through launch, ongoing support, and retirement.
§ Partner with and influence senior executives to align product strategy, roadmaps, plans, and implementation priorities.
§ Own multi-team backlog prioritization against product outcomes and delivery constraints, not just stakeholder requests.
§ Run recurring discovery and translate insights into roadmap and prioritization decisions with direct business impact.
§ Drive release readiness, scope commitment, and acceptance criteria across multiple Agile teams.
§ Create urgency, motivate cross-functional teams, and proactively address risks to meet committed launch dates.
Key Responsibilities & Outcomes
§ Lead the assigned product line and drive its overall performance and success.
§ Partner with and influence senior executives to align product strategy, roadmaps, plans, and implementation priorities.
§ Manage the product line’s technical lifecycle from concept through launch, ongoing support, and retirement.
§ Develop product strategy and detailed requirements by analyzing market segments, customer needs, and business opportunities; translate insights into a compelling, actionable roadmap.
§ Define and prioritize functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and objectives for current and future products.
§ Serve as an active member of Scrum teams, sharing accountability for product delivery, quality, robustness, and reliability.
§ Own backlog refinement, prioritization, and readiness; clarify requirements and accept completed user stories.
§ Run recurring discovery (interviews, usability testing, surveys, data analysis) and convert insights into roadmap decisions.
§ Coordinate the development of tools and launch materials, including contracts, technical specifications, go-to-market content, and post-launch monitoring documentation.
§ Prioritize defect resolution and operational activities to maintain product performance, stability, and availability.
§ Collaborate with Marketing, Sales, and Service to develop product positioning, demonstrations, training, and sales enablement materials.
§ Communicate roadmap status, decisions, and risks clearly to the team and cross-functional stakeholders.
§ Mentor fellow Product Owners and other product team members.
§ Build professional, collaborative relationships with internal and external clients and customers.
§ Perform other duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications
Education
§ Bachelor’s degree required
Experience
§ 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner with software for mission-critical products, working with Agile methodology.
§ Proven experience in customer development, product definition, feature scoping, and balancing trade-offs for industry-leading business software products.
§ Datacenter/IT Infrastructure experience required.
§ Demonstrated experience leading a product line or multi-team initiative, with ownership of roadmap and measurable business outcomes.
§ Experience running discovery and translating insights into prioritization decisions.
§ Ability to write clear requirements, acceptance criteria, and release scope.
§ Strong stakeholder alignment and presentation skills across engineering, design, and senior business partners.
§ Background in engineering, technology, or UX preferred.
Preferred Qualifications
§ Experience with SaaS or cloud-based products in an enterprise environment.
§ Experience with backlog management and discovery tooling (Jira, Azure DevOps, or equivalent).
§ Experience in financial reporting, regulated communications, or other relevant Toppan Merrill business domains.
§ Experience mentoring or coaching Product Owners at earlier career stages.
AI Use Expectations
§ Discovery synthesis: Use AI-assisted tools to help cluster qualitative research data, identify patterns across interview transcripts, and accelerate affinity mapping across a product line. Validate all AI-generated themes against source material before presenting findings or making roadmap decisions.
§ Requirements drafting: Use AI tools to generate draft user stories, acceptance criteria, and release notes. Review and refine all AI-generated requirements for accuracy, completeness, and alignment with stakeholder input before committing them to the backlog.
§ Backlog analysis: Use AI-assisted tools to surface prioritization patterns, flag stale items, and identify dependency clusters across a multi-team backlog. Human judgment governs all prioritization and sequencing decisions.
§ Competitive and market research: Use AI tools to summarize publicly available product reviews, industry trends, and competitor patterns to accelerate discovery. Cite sources and verify claims independently before incorporating into strategy artifacts.
§ Stakeholder communication: Use AI tools to draft roadmap summaries, release communications, and executive briefings. Review and refine all AI-generated communications for accuracy and appropriate tone before distribution.
Accountability and Oversight
§ You are accountable for every product decision made within your product line, regardless of whether AI tools contributed to the analysis. AI accelerates; it does not decide.
§ Apply the same rigor to AI-generated output as to independently produced work. Do not present AI-generated artifacts as final without review and iteration.
§ When mentoring Product Owners, model responsible AI use explicitly: demonstrate how to validate, critique, and improve AI output, not just how to prompt for it.
§ Validate AI-assisted discovery synthesis and requirements against actual user and stakeholder input before treating them as final.
Skills Required
- At least 8 years of experience in a product role
- Experience in a product development company
- Working knowledge of Agile processes and ceremonies
- Working experience with JIRA
- Working experience with Confluence
- Experience managing and prioritizing product backlogs
- Experience translating product strategy into development tasks
- Experience working with cross-functional teams
Toppan Merrill Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Toppan Merrill and has not been reviewed or approved by Toppan Merrill.
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Healthcare Strength — Offerings include full medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families, plus mental-health support and wellness programs. Access to HSAs/FSAs and an EAP further strengthens the health suite.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Program details highlight flexible PTO, paid holidays, wellness days, floating holidays, and paid parental leave. Additional time-off types such as bereavement, jury duty, and community/volunteer days are cited in postings.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with company match is frequently cited, with some postings noting immediate vesting from date of hire. This sits alongside other financial protections such as employer-paid life and disability coverage.
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What We Do
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