Product Owner

**Job Title**: Product Owner
**Location**: Chennai
**Experience**: 5-10 Years

Job Summary/Objective
Participates in the entire software product lifecycle for the Collision Repair Network (CRN) team, and plays a central role in executing the product roadmap and bringing the product vision to market. Acts as the voice of the customer, and represents the business stakeholders while working daily with engineering teams to help scope, structure, refine, and execute product deliverables.

Key Responsibilities & Duties (essential to the job)
1. Maintains a well-groomed product backlog that supports assigned scrum teams and guides development efforts through the product life cycle.
2. Achieves objectives of the CRN product vision by prioritizing needs, anticipating customer requests, and evaluating product progress.
3. Translates and deconstructs product roadmap initiatives into smaller, clearly-defined feature sets, and collaborates with Product Managers to prioritize various feature sets into releasable products.
4. Produces clear and effective user stories with clearly-defined acceptance criteria to create and prioritize product features.
5. Collects feedback from users, customers, and dealers, for direction in future enhancements.
6. Documents process workflows to clearly articulate product requirements.
7. Partners with UI/UX team to develop wireframes & design, and partners with technology leads in scrum meetings and reviews.
8. Advises customer-facing teams of new CRN-related product releases, and ensures that documentation is accurate and reflected in internal and external stakeholder documentation (such as Customer Release Notes).
9. Assists with the launch planning process to develop respective documentation, communication, and knowledge transfers for internal and external stakeholders.
10. Partners closely with internal teams to review, triage, and provide input into client tickets.
11. Develops well thought out success criteria for product and feature releases. Maintains appropriate tracking and reporting of product performance post-launch against the success criteria.

Education
A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university is required, with a focus in business, marketing, software engineering, computer science, or related discipline. In the absence of a degree, equivalent work experience directly related to the key responsibilities of the role will be considered as a substitute for the degree.

Experience, Skills and Key Competencies
At least 4 years of progressively responsible experience in a product role for a software company, plus a proven ability to effectively work with key customers. Must also be able to demonstrate the following skills and abilities:

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with ability to effectively tailor communications to a specific audience or call to action.
- Strong analytical and business acumen skills to define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and identify solutions and opportunities.

Experience, Skills and Key Competencies (continued)
- A proven track record of developing and nurturing relationships, handling multiple priorities, and working in a high collaboration environment across diverse teams.
- Comfortable with taking ownership of work, and independently identifying and acting on opportunities for improvement in process or products.

Special Position Requirements
- Must be able to read, write, understand, and speak fluent English.
- Travel for this position is required, and anticipated to be approximately 10-15% of the time (possibly 1 to 2 days each month).

**Perks and Benefits**:

- Competitive salary and benefits
- Group Medical Insurance
- ICICI Multiwallet food coupon
- Collaborative workspace
- Flexible working hours
- Hybrid work model

What Makes Working at OEC Awesome?
We have a new OEC Technology Centre of Excellence in Chennai, India Our team is beyond thrilled to work with the new office, but we’re even more excited for the innovation and creativity
that this living space will certainly inspire We believe in surrounding ourselves with not only the best and the brightest individuals, but those that are unique and purpose-driven in all that they do.
OEC India has been selected as one of the ‘Top 25 Safest Workplaces in India’ by KelpHR.
childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, familial status, veteran or military
status, status regarding public assistance, membership or activity in a local commission, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.