Product Owner

**An Amazing Career Opportunity for Product Owner**

**Location: Chennai, India (Hybrid)**

**Job ID: 34545**

**Profile Summary**:
The Product Owner (PO) represents business priorities as set by PACS Product Management (represented by Product Managers) into relevant scrum teams. The PO also attends relevant Product Management meetings about planning and Program Backlog/Vision refinement. This specific role’s assignment will be focused on physical access control systems (PACS) Mobile Access and Credentials. The PO follows the principles of Agile development. Gathers product requirements and assures that the team is always doing “the right thing”. The PO understands the product vision, identifies the needs and passes them on to the team in a clear and comprehensive manner. Gives constant feedback and bring new ideas on Product features. Manages a well-groomed and prioritized backlog limited of 2 teams based in Chennai.

**About HID Global**

**Physical Access Control Solutions** (PACS)**

**HID's Physical Access Control Solutions Business Area**:
HID Physical Access Control Solutions (PACS) is at the forefront of securing spaces with advanced, reliable access control solutions. From cutting-edge readers, credentials and controllers to mobile and biometric technologies, HID PACS empowers organizations worldwide to protect their people, property and assets with scalable, high-quality solutions. This is more than just a job - it’s your chance to join an industry leader to drive innovation in access control and make a real impact on global security solutions.

Are you ready to make a difference? Join us and help shape the future of security

**Qualifications**

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

**Roles & Responsibilities include the following (Other duties may be assigned)**:
**_Preparation and participation in PI planning:_**
- As a member of the extended Product Management team, the PO is heavily involved in program backlog refinement and prep for Program Increment (PI) planning and plays a significant role in the planning event itself.
- During the event, the PO is involved with feature and story definition, providing the clarifications necessary to assist the team with their story estimates and sequencing.
- Collaborating with other POs - across ARTS to ensure dependencies are noted.

**_Iteration execution:_**
- Maintaining the team backlog - With input from System Architect/Engineering and other stakeholders, the PO has the primary responsibility for building, editing, and maintaining the team backlog.
- Iteration Planning - The PO reviews and reprioritizes the backlog as part of the prep work for Iteration Planning, including coordination of dependencies with other POs. During the iteration planning meeting, the PO communicates story detail and priorities and ensures the team aligns and agrees on a final iteration plan.
- Accepting stories - The PO works with the team to agree on accepted story completion. This includes validating that the story meets acceptance criteria, that it has the appropriate, persistent acceptance tests, and that it otherwise complies with its Definition of Done (DoD).
- Understand enabler work - While POs are not expected to drive technological decisions, they are supposed to understand the scope of the upcoming enabler work and collaborate with System and Solution Architect/Engineering to assist with decision-making and sequencing of the critical technological infrastructures that will host the new business functionality.
- Participate in team demo and retrospective - POs collaborate with their team and any other stakeholders in the team demo. They also participate in the Iteration Retrospective, where the teams gather to improve their processes and are active in the Agile Release Train’s (ART’s) Inspect and Adapt (I&A) workshop.

**_Program execution:_**
- Iterations and Agile teams serve a larger purpose; the frequent, reliable, and continuous release of value-added solutions. During each PI, the PO coordinates dependencies with other POs.
- The PO also has an instrumental role in producing the System Demo for program and Value Stream stakeholders.

**_Inspect and adapt:_**
- The PI system demo is part of the I&A workshop. The PO has an instrumental role in producing the PI system demo for program stakeholders.
- To ensure that they will be able to show the most critical aspects of the solution to the stakeholders, POs also participate in the preparation of the PI system demo.

**Education and/or Experience**:

- B.S. degree preferably in a technical field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 5+ years’ experience in development and maintenance. Experience encompassing hardw