Senior Associate Product Manager

Role Overview: As a Product Owner (T3) at PGS RIS / SBD, you will be a vital member of the Agile Team, responsible for defining and prioritizing the team's backlog to effectively address identified product/program/project management objectives. Your role will involve backlog refinement, preparation of planned releases, validating that stories meet acceptance criteria, and reviewing and re-prioritizing the backlog as part of preparatory work for sprint planning. You will also play a crucial part in communicating with customers/users on delivered work and gathering feedback for continuous improvement. Key Responsibilities: - Responsible for backlog refinement, prioritizing the team's backlog, and ensuring it represents the business priorities adequately. You will also contribute to creating product/program/project vision, roadmap, and content presentations. - Validate that stories meet acceptance criteria and will achieve the desired customer outcome. - Review and re-prioritize backlog as part of preparatory work for sprint planning, including coordinating content dependencies with other product owners. - Assist with story definition, provide clarification to assist the team with story estimates, sprint loading, story sequencing, and drafting the team's specific objectives. - Build, refine, and maintain team backlog with input from the product manager and stakeholders, prioritizing backlog items based on user value, time, and team dependencies. - Communicate with customers/users on delivered work, gather feedback, share feedback with the team, review/accept stories, and participate in team retrospective for continuous improvement. - Perform other job-related duties or special projects as required. Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required, with at least 6 years of related experience. - Excellent communication skills including the ability to influence and negotiate. - Solid strategic thinking, collaboration, and decision-making skills. - Mid-level experience working in FS domain. - Experience as a Business Analyst is an added advantage. - Understanding of the role of PO in an agile environment. - Deep understanding of Life/Retirement domain and end-to-end process flow. - Knowledge of Product Management Concepts and experience in backlog grooming/prioritization. - Experience working in agile teams at the scrum level and involvement in scrum planning. - Exposure to Business and IT stakeholder management. (Note: The desired qualifications section was not provided in the job description.),