Product Owner

Overview: Product Owner As a Product Owner, you will collaborate on initiatives/roadmap items from the product Manager, break them down into actionable chunks of value, and work with the engineering and business teams to implement them in line with the organization’s vision and goals. Why is this role important for Tenerity’s work? As product owners, we add value by prioritizing the right work, at the right times, and making sure everyone on the team is aligned on the reasoning behind that work—to help ensure the continuous delivery of value to our clients and customers. To be useful in translating their company’s strategic plan into the right execution steps, product owners must understand their customer needs, current capabilities and determine tangible steps to develop the product to meet the needs. This often involves working with product managers to learn about what problems they are aiming to solve with the product, what customer needs or desires have informed their product strategy, and what the team will view as product success. The Product Owners role supports the Product Manager in delivering the product roadmap in line with the organization’s vision and goals. Often the Product Owner is considered the vital bridge between the organization’s product vision and execution strategy. Product Owners are the change-agents, strategists, facilitators, the bridge between the Product Manager, Business Analyst, and the Agile team. They provide the required breakdown of the product vision and strategy into tangible user stories and dependencies, while working with governance to provide the required financial outlay. They work closely with and mentor the Business Analysts to create the detail level artefacts such the epics, user stories and customer journeys. **Responsibilities**: Once here you will be 1. Responsible for partnering with Product Managers (in the US, UK and India) to identify, refine, scope, prioritize roadmap items based on a balanced view of product vision and client needs. 2. Accountable for defining user stories with clear acceptance criteria and identifying dependencies between business units and various work streams. 3. Supporting Agile rituals like Feature elaboration/Estimation, release planning, Iteration planning, Showcase, etc. in partnership with Scrum Master and PMO Managers 4. Supporting the development and communication of the product strategy and prioritization (Innovation), while ensuring that internal and external stakeholders are prepared to support the product. 5. Responsible for the product roadmap and backlog with high-level features with timeline while prioritizing epics, stories, and features based on criticality and ROI involved. 6. Supporting Product Increments planning and identifying/ defining the MVPs (Minimum Viable Product) wherever applicable. 7. Accountable for conducting workshops, creating required customer and system journeys in line with product vision. 8. Providing guidance to business analysts on detailed user stories and non-functional requirements (NFRs), validating them and clearing the functional impediments if any. 9. Responsible for scheduling the required huddles with Business Analyst, Architects and Agile team to review features for plan/estimates and producing the required artefacts. 10. Facilitating marketing and sales enablement by planning product release and execution 11. Accountable for working with the BA to develop detailed requirements for T-shirt sizing. 12. Collaborating with functions (e.g., Architecture, Engineering, etc.) on enablers, technical debts, research work items and non-Functional Requirements of products for strategy, prioritization and communicates it back to PMs. 13. Responsible for Sprint goal definition, reprioritization of sprints and epics if needed. 14. Responsible for report on key metrics regarding product development roadmap and support key metrics regarding product market performance 15. Accountable for ensuring that Product artifacts, knowledge repository, KPIs (key performance indicators), metrics are well organized, up-to-date,and easily accessible by all. 16. Helping in building a culture of excellence in Product (and value) based thinking Qualifications: Minimum qualifications: - A Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business, Science or Marketing as well as >5 years of Product Owner / Technical Product Management experience in a software environment. An advanced technical or business-related degree (MBA) is desirable - A strong understanding of cloud-based services and/or App development is desirable - A strong understanding of integrating hardware and platform software services is desirable - Must have a passion for product ownership and bringing new products to market - Influencing skills and ability to persuade both internally and externally (effective presentations at all levels, negotiation) - Partnering and collaboration skills: workin