Product Owner

Key responsibilities include:

• Ensure successful implementation of products & solutions to the customers
• Understand client needs and effectively communicate with implementation teams (Product Owners, IT, and end users)
• Lead client discussions, prepare presentations – solutions, project plan, budget, project health
• Define and manage a product vision, roadmap & growth opportunity that serves internal stakeholders and external stakeholders
• Lead complex projects & development of platform. 
• Lead the project team to develop new state of the art and cutting-edge data pipeline architectures for complex distributed systems. 
• Align requirements with internal and external partners and customers & coordinate with vendors. 
• Ensure SLA, cost efficiency, scalability, resilience, and legality of CRISIL data pipelines. 
• Participate in planning sessions and other related meetings and sessions with internal business users as well as external customers; take the lead of scrum teams & providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements 
• Review, plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product 
• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy 
• Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories 
• Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI 
• Lead the planning product release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities 
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals 
• Research and analyze market, the users, and the roadmap for the product. Follow our competitors and the industry 
• Manage team of BA's/Senior BA's/Junior POs in enabling delivery of product

Candidate Profile

• Experience as Product Owner in Platform or Data Analytics products
• Master’s in Finance, computer science, Engineering or similar relevant field or engineering Graduate with MBA. 
• In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles 
• Experience in managing AI enabled products (including gen AI)
• Technical aptitude: past experience in business analysis, data management or analytics highly preferred 
• Intermediate SQL skills and advanced documentation skills. 
• Excellent communication, presentation and leadership skills 
• Excellent organizational and time management skills 
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills 
• Creative thinker with a vision

Work experience

• Work experience as a product owner/business analyst in BFSI sector either in IT Services Company or Product Based Company working with digital transformation journey.
• Experience in leading ML/AI driven projects
• Understanding and experience of Product Development Life Cycle, Product backlog and experience of working in an Agile development environment
• Proven business analysis skills and strong understanding of system architecture with experience in BFSI risk regulatory domain solution is a plus
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including technical writing skills
• The ability to conduct cost/benefit analysis, drive key metrics in project delivery