Product Owner

As a Product Owner in the Retail industry with 6 to 10 years of experience, you will play a crucial role in driving the transformation from projects to products. Your primary focus will be on implementing a product mindset that emphasizes speed, quality, and value. You will need to have a strong MBA background from a Tier-1 B-School along with relevant experience in digital product management and business strategy. Your responsibilities will include developing a deep understanding of the organization's goals, competitive positioning, and market trends. Collaborating with internal stakeholders, you will identify new product concepts and ideas based on industry analysis. As a Product Owner, you will be in charge of problem framing, backlog management, development stages, and planning for pilot projects and rollouts. To succeed in this role, you must optimize products and operations based on data-driven decisions throughout the product lifecycle. You will need to foster a product-oriented mindset by utilizing data-driven decision-making practices and testing hypotheses with the help of Customer Research teams. Additionally, you will work closely with clients/internals to understand their problem statements and propose effective solutions. Your role will involve managing multiple stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle, leading workshops, and elicitation sessions. You should have excellent proficiency in Requirement Management tools like Jira and experience in driving software product development at an enterprise scale. Planning and prioritizing product feature backlogs, defining product vision and roadmap, and assessing value and prioritizing stories will be part of your core responsibilities. Specifically, you will collaborate closely with the Product lead to maintain and create a product backlog based on business value. You will lead product release planning, mitigate impediments impacting team goals, and conduct in-depth market analysis to identify new features and conduct gap analysis for product development. Overall, your role as a Product Owner in the Retail sector requires a combination of strategic thinking, stakeholder management, agile methodologies, and data-driven decision-making to drive successful product outcomes.,