Senior Product Owner (6-10 yrs)

Job Responsibilities :

1. Continuously stay updated with market trends, customer needs, and industry standards while gaining a deep understanding of the product's domain knowledge and its ecosystem.

2. Proactively seek knowledge from relevant stakeholders to enhance understanding of the product landscape.

3. Drive collaboration with the Scrum Master to identify and address any impediments or challenges that may arise during the sprint cycle, proactively seeking solutions to keep the team on track.

4. Gain insights into quality assurance practices, including development, testing, and release processes, to ensure that the team maintains high standards of quality throughout the product development lifecycle.

5. Lead the product vision, scope, and go-to-market strategy from inception to delivery.

6. Motivate and guide the team to achieve sprint goals and deliver high-quality work increments, while taking ownership of creating and maintaining a clear, prioritised product backlog.

7. Act as the primary stakeholder for the product, ensuring alignment with stakeholder needs while driving the product forward.

8. Own the articulation of the vision solution for technical leads and teams, providing them with a clear understanding of the desired technical direction.

9. Take ownership of ensuring that Scrum practices are effectively implemented within the product development process, working in tandem with the Scrum Master to maintain alignment with Agile principles.

10. Manage the product backlog, ensuring it is effectively prioritized with well-defined and actionable user stories along with sprint reviews and UAT handoff calls to ensure stakeholder expectations are met, while also managing product reporting to stakeholders and executives.

11. Take ownership of ensuring that the work delivered meets the agreed-upon timelines and milestones, collaborating with the Scrum Master to monitor progress and address any delays or impediments.

12. Own the definition of quality standards for the product, ensuring that all work meets these standards and that any deviations are addressed promptly.

13. Champion the product by articulating its value proposition and ensuring alignment with business objectives, while driving the UX design process through facilitating sessions and collaborating with UI/UX design teams.

14. Drive discussions with technical leads and teams based on a comprehensive understanding of the technology stack and its implications on the product.

15. Motivate and guide the team to prioritise quality in all aspects of their work, from development to testing to release, driving continuous improvement and optimisation of processes.

16. Coordinate with cross-functional teams to orchestrate the development process and ensure alignment with product vision.

17. Orchestrate sprint planning sessions and backlog grooming sessions in collaboration with the Scrum Master, ensuring that they are conducted effectively and that the team has a clear understanding of the work ahead.

18. Collaborate with the Scrum Master and other stakeholders to identify and address any bottlenecks or challenges that may impact the delivery timeline or quality of work.

19. Actively participate in sprint planning, review meetings, and retrospectives to ensure smooth execution of development activities.

20. Engage with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement and foster a culture of collaboration.

21. Contribute actively to discussions and decisions around delivery timelines and quality standards, offering insights and guidance from a product-focused perspective.

Skills & Qualifications :

1. Bachelor's or Master's degree in any related field or equivalent qualification.

2. 5-8 years of relevant (product owner, business analyst) experience with excellent communication skills , great analytical, problem-solving and critical thinking skills.

3. A strong analytical mindset with a proven ability to understand a variety of business problems through stakeholder interactions and other methods. The prowess to ideate innovative IT solutions by means of established products as well as custom IT solutions.

4. Ability to interpret nuanced technological facets from business inputs gathered through stakeholder interactions to facilitate the requisite bridging between them and the members of the product development team.

5. Solid knowledge and appreciation of Agile fundamentals with product development experience following Scrum, & Kanban.

6. Extensive experience in transforming stakeholder vision into a detailed and well-structured product backlog while crafting a clear and actionable product roadmap.

7. Expertise around various kinds of requirement documentation formats such as BRD, FRD, SRS, Use-Cases, User-Stories, and creating other documents such as Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs), System Flows, Context diagrams, etcs

8. Hands-on experience on diagrammatic analysis & representation of business processes, data & system flows using BPMN & UML diagrams such as activity flow, sequence diagrams, DFDs, etc using tools such as MS Visio, draw.io and other industry-popular tools.

9. Must have experience driving UI/UX design activities in collaboration with graphic and UI design teams using enabler tools like wireframes, sketches, flow diagrams, and information architecture, along with hands-on expertise in Atlassian tools such as JIRA and Confluence; familiarity with Bitbucket is a plus.

10. Hands-on experience in SQL, including writing simple to moderately complex queries, along with knowledge of Logical Data Modeling (ER Modeling), System Integrations and APIs. Should be familiar with wrapper APIs, Elastic-search indexes, and AWS S3 will be an advantage.

11. Experience of working on Healthcare Insurance domain-focused IT products and /or Industry knowledge would be a huge plus.