Product Owner

Product Owner (PO)

• Ensure that the backlog reflects the right balance between building features that meet market needs and ensuring quality while maintaining the speed to market that will meet product goals
• Ensure the backlog of user stories is prepared to meet sprint planning deadlines
• Demonstrate an excellent understanding of the product, business and market to help prioritize the backlog based on business value and return on investment
• Participate in the sprint review events and update the backlog based on stakeholder feedback and agreed changes
• Focus on product level impediments and process changes to enable business lines to deliver faster and higher quality software
• Ensure that all the technical and operational concerns to adequately deliver a release are covered in the backlog
• Analyze and predict risks and issues, and ensure that sufficient mitigation is in place to ensure that sufficient mitigation is in place to ensure on-time delivery including cross-team dependencies
• Work with key stakeholders across the board on a day-to-day basis to help make decisions on what is in scope and provide input into functional decisions
• Make tough decisions on trade-offs between features, quality and dates to provide the best solutions
• Build strong relationships with the stakeholders across the businesses; ensure that you understand their role, the needs of their area, and their requirements throughout the program
• Ensure that key stakeholders are brought in at relevant points throughout the process to understand trade-offs, align on key decisions, and review process
• Ensure Product leadership is aware of key issues and changes, and provide them with the right information and recommendations to resolve issues
• Work with product Managers to ensure the features in a release represent what is needed and that return on investment is in line with their expectations
• Review team outputs and sign off on quality of output and deliverables
• Provide critical feedback to teams as needed

Requirement Qualifications:

• Education: MBA, or B. Tech
• 7+ years experience managing backlogs, defining requirements, and prioritizing work for software development teams
• 5+ years demonstrated experience in the Software Development Life Cycle 
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams and be central in the delivery of software within a product development capacity
• Demonstrated experience working in an Agile environment and ability to deliver Excellent and proven communication skills (written and verbal)
• Well-developed negotiation and problem-solving skills
• Excellent and proven communication skills (written and verbal)
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Familiarity with MS Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio), JIRA, Confluence