Technical Product Owner

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain a high-quality backlog for the Matching Tech Team
• Translate product discussions and technical concepts into user stories, acceptance criteria, and process flows
• Break down complex initiatives into executable units of work, identifying dependencies and sequencing
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and production issue triage
• Develop initial proposals for dashboards, workflows, and operational tooling
• Work with operations users to gather feedback and validate workflows
• Support investigation efforts using SQL and system knowledge

Requirements

• Minimum three years of experience as a Technical Product Owner, Product Analyst, or Systems Analyst in a software engineering environment
• Strong experience translating technical requirements into user stories and development tasks
• Proven experience with Jira, including backlog management and story decomposition
• Experience working with engineering teams on APIs, workflows, and data-driven platforms
• Proficiency in SQL and comfort working with data models and structured datasets
• Experience creating workflows, diagrams, wireframes, or dashboards
• Experience working in Agile environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in music publishing, music rights, or metadata systems
• General experience in the music industry

About the Company

The Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) is a nonprofit organization designated by the U.S. Copyright Office to administer blanket mechanical licenses for digital music services in the United States. We sit at the intersection of music, finance, and technology, ensuring songwriters and publishers are paid accurately for the use of their music.