Product Owner - Software Development - IT

Responsibilities:

- Develop product requirements and use cases for new products or features

- Convert the product priorities to user stories and epics in Jira and specify its completion criterion

- Coordinate with cross-functional engineering and data strategy resources to develop products.

- Coordinate Sprint completion/ acceptance activities including collaboration with QA on test cases

- Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables

- Assemble and coordinate project staff to deliver on project milestones

- Implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs

- Assists in definition of detailed requirements of product features in product requirements documents for each release;

- Creates milestone plans for specific initiatives, monitors implementation and scope;

- Assists managers of adjacent product line with input on interdependencies between different product lines and works within the team to resolves inconsistencies

- Clearly expressing and ordering product backlog items in collaboration with Product Managers

- Optimizing the value of the work the development team performs

- Experience in UI/ UX aspects of the product experience and technical, engineering skills

- Passion for data-based products. Comfort discussing requirements for data production pipelines and processing/cleansing data.

- Ability to participate in and influence high-level technical discussions that impact business decisions.

- Flexible and resourceful, with a figure-it-out-and-get-it-done mentality; not afraid to make mistakes quickly and course-correct

- Strong experience in customer facing roles, including requirements capture, product assessment and planning, and ongoing customer feedback.

- Ensuring the product backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the Agile Team will work on next

- Ensuring the development understands items in the product backlog to the level needed

- Responsible for working with Product Managers to resolve ambiguities in requirements

- Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on

- Attend daily scrums with the development team to help drive priority decisions and remove roadblocks

- Responsible to accept stories and ensure they meet the definition of done

- Participate in Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives and contribute to Showcase Demos

Knowledge and Skills:

- Experience with common product management tools such as Jira and Confluence

- Previous experience with Agile software development methodology experience as Scrum Product Owner desired

- Prior experience working with development team on development and deployment of product releases

- Experience with managing and prioritizing product backlog

- Ability to multi-task and communication on multiple projects

- Outstanding communication and presentation skills

- Excellent organizational and time management skills

- Attention to detail

Qualifications:

- 3 7 years of product management experience & additionally 3-5 years of experience in product development

- Engineering degree required. MBA/PGDM ( Tier 1 Institutes )

- Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or quantitative field or equivalent