Technical Product Owner - External Integrations

Join Eaton, a global leader where equality and inclusivity are at the heart of our mission. Here, everyone is valued and belongs. Be part of a team that delivers cutting-edge, energy-efficient solutions, making a tangible impact on the world. We empower our customers to manage electrical, hydraulic, and mechanical energy more effectively, safely, and sustainably. At Eaton, we’re dedicated to enhancing quality of life and protecting the environment with our innovative energy management technologies and services.   Our  EMEA Business Service Center (BSC)  in Budapest is Eaton’s largest office in the region. With a diverse team of over 700 people, representing 40+ nationalities and speaking 20+ languages, the BSC is the central hub for business services. It empowers seamless operations and drives exceptional results across our electrical, industrial, and corporate teams. We are proud to be a Disability Friendly Workplace, ensuring an inclusive environment for all our employees.  What you’ll do: 
 The specific focus for a Technical Product Owner will be creating a strategic product offering for external Eaton distributors, partners, and customers through an integration and data first platform. In this role you will be responsible for understanding current capabilities in this space, collecting and prioritizing tasks from across global business units, and crafting a long-term strategy and roadmap to grow our digital channel. Typical use cases that will form the foundation of this product include capabilities in order management, pricing, inventory, deal registration and partner management, quoting. The Technical Product Owner will work in close partnership with business counterparts to identify where Eaton's external partners can accelerate growth with the appropriate digital integrations and data directly in their workflows. This individual will be part of a larger program focused on unifying and accelerating all our digital external touchpoints and will help drive recommendations and build a product roadmap that will support the overall vision.

Providing technical experience and industry best practices for engaging with external organizations via digital integration channels across a variety of enterprise use cases Bringing a strong technical understanding in modern integration methods, platforms, and API first data exchange in order to collaborate appropriately and drive the strategic vision for Eaton in this space. Owning and prioritizing the external-API product roadmap and backlog across distributor and partner requests, balancing new endpoints against reliability, reuse, cost and business generated for Eaton. Driving the modernization of Eaton's current offerings from pull-only to a push + pull, event-driven model, with the integration and platform teams Sequencing and coordinating cross-team dependencies across the enterprise including support from integration, architecture, data, and security teams. Defining and reporting external-API KPIs — organizations onboarded, transaction throughput, and SLA adherence — to program and business leadership'- Defining and communicating the product vision, roadmap, and epics to meet customer and business needs Qualifications: 
 B.S. degree from an accredited institution Min. 7 years of experience as an analyst, project manager, engineer, BRM or program lead on moderate to highly complex technology projects and programs API product management: REST APIs, API gateway / management concepts, versioning, and rate limiting / throttling Event-driven and push integration patterns (webhooks, publish/subscribe) alongside pull APIs Working knowledge of identity and entitlements for external users (Okta, Saviynt; coarse- vs fine-grained access) Familiarity with iPaaS / MuleSoft-style integration and B2B data exchange 2+ years of experience as a Product Owner or equivalent position, experience working with Agile, Scrum, and/or Kanban software delivery teams