Location
Bangalore | India
Job description
Job Summary Product Owners are key positions in a global organization, delivering value to the business and customers while maintaining a clear view on what the customer needs and what needs to get done. Product Owners are accountable to create the right backlog prioritization in line with the squad / league vision / priorities. Job's Responsibilities 1 Own Offer lifecycle management, manage squad portfolio roadmap (including software)
- Spend time with customers, leverage the right stakeholders to identify value drivers
- Understand customer values, application, competitive environment, market trends, go to market and anticipate evolutions
- Gather and analyze customer's needs by meeting customers and collaborating regularly with business stakeholders
- Define and validate the new offer value propositions (UVP, business models, go to market)
- Understand technical trends to identify valuable innovations in the product environment
- Propose value base pricing recommendations (e.g.: GRT, AMSP, GM(%)
- Work towards O2, long tail
2 Build and own the business case (new offer evolutions) and following agile governance to get the apporval
- Build business cases with right market inputs and inputs from various functions incl.quality, Indus, Engg and marketing
- Prepare the launch activities of the offer: Liaise with marketing / marcom for content and assigned commercial leaders for deployment 3 Create, prioritize & communicate with Squad members the Squad backlog, release map & roadmap.
- Challenge and evaluate requests (from business, quality,...)
- Periodically review critical quality issues and associated mitigation plans
- Build and prioritize the product backlog
- Communicate backlog refinement
- Define, update and validate the offer/marketing requirement (in sync with companion Squads and Leagues guidelines / strategy) within backlog product prioritization
- Build the releases plan and global roadmap according to technology, feasibility, budget, resources, TTM
- Communicate the product roadmap to all stakeholders
- Periodically review customers demo feedback to assess new needs
- Periodically review with internal stakeholders (including management agreement)
- Lead the offer requirement trade-offs 4 Define with Squad members the sprint strategy and achievement criteria. Take accountability in sharing outcomes with stakeholders:
- Organize iterative deliverables for each sprint based on release objectives
- Ensure team understands and refines backlog items before committing to them
- Ensure sprint objectives contribute to value for customer (backlog) and product/process robustness
- Define and update achievement criteria
- Consider retro session outcomes in the iterative sprint definition
- Guide the Squad to set-up and re-prioritize realistic but ambitious enough sprint objectives : squad velocity
5 Support league marketing to build right marketing content / collaterals at League level (in line competition, trends, market / offer evolution)
- Pitch document
- Battle cards
- Offer Value prop documents
- Launch assets 6 Support the Squad to deliver on sprints & 'rendezvous', acting as obstacle troubleshooter :- Be the voice of the customer for the squad questions
- Support the squad on all obstacles (including capacity issues)
- Periodic analysis of the product cost to deliver the right level of product cost
- Define the best trade-offs between all parameters (e.g. : Squad budget, schedule, product cost and business stake, quality, time to market, innovation)
- Ensure product/process robustness (according to « major rendezvous »)
- Review periodically main acceptance criteria with the Squad.
- Synchronize with companion Squads 7 Create a conducive and collaborative environment through effective leadership :
- Organize, lead, challenge and motivate the Squad
- Be the voice of the Squad in case of trade offs and success needs with stakeholders outside of the Squad
- Provide transparency to key stakeholders
- Be part of the Agile rendezvous
- Celebrate team's success Qualifications and Experience Bachelor's degree and 4 years of product or project development experience, or 3 years of project development experience on an Agile Team or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
Experience presenting to Customers & Leaders, and experience in saying 'No' when required
Experience in successfully building and leading teams in a matrix environment.
Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles
Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e. Scrum, Kanban), an in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles would be an advantage
Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams
Qualifications Bachelor's degree and 4 years of product or project development experience, or 3 years of project development experience on an Agile Team or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
Schedule: Full-time
Req: 008RB9
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