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Job Summary:
The Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to administering blanket mechanical licenses for digital music services in the United States. As a Technical Product Owner, you will translate product vision and operational needs into executable work for the Matching Platform while collaborating with stakeholders to ensure solutions are practical and aligned with MLC's goals.
Responsibilities:
• Own and maintain a high-quality backlog for the Matching Tech Team, ensuring work is clearly defined, properly prioritized, and ready for development.
• Translate product discussions, operational needs, and technical concepts into user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, diagrams, and development tasks.
• Break down complex initiatives into executable units of work, identifying dependencies, sequencing, and implementation considerations.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, production issue triage, and other Agile delivery activities.
• Develop initial proposals for dashboards, workflows, operational tooling, and user-facing experiences for collaborative refinement with stakeholders and engineers.
• Work closely with operations users and stakeholders to gather feedback, validate workflows, and improve operational processes within the Matching Platform.
• Participate in production issue triage and support investigation efforts using SQL, system knowledge, and operational context.
• Help communicate delivery progress, technical concepts, and operational impacts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Work collaboratively within an Agile environment, participating actively in team ceremonies, planning activities, and cross-functional discussions.
• Foster clear communication and shared understanding between technical teams, operational users, and stakeholders.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of product, operational, and delivery processes across the Technology organization.
• Promote structured, well-defined, and scalable approaches to workflow design, backlog management, and technical execution.
• Support a collaborative, data-driven, and continuous improvement culture within the Technology team.
• Embrace The MLC’s leadership values and applying The MLC’s Guiding Principles to your team’s work.
• Be process-oriented, data-driven, and tech-savvy; being collaborative, curious, and open to new ideas.
• Build a dynamic team; mentoring team members; developing future leaders.
• Inspire others with your enthusiasm and humility.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Minimum three (3) years’ experience in a Technical Product Owner, Product Analyst, Systems Analyst, Product Operations, or similar role within a software engineering environment.
• Strong experience translating complex operational or technical requirements into well-defined user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and development tasks.
• Proven experience with Jira, including backlog management and story decomposition.
• Experience working closely with engineering teams on technical systems, APIs, workflows, and data-driven platforms.
• Proficient in SQL and comfortable working with technical systems, data models, and structured datasets.
• Experience creating workflows, diagrams, wireframes, dashboards, or other user-facing operational artifacts.
• Strong organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to facilitate discussions between technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working in Agile environments and participating in sprint planning, refinement, and delivery coordination activities.
Preferred:
• Experience in music publishing, music rights, metadata systems, or the music industry in general is a plus.
Company:
The Mechanical Licensing Collective is a non-profit service organization that serves songwriters from every genre. Founded in 2018, the company is headquartered in Nashville, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.