Product Owner

**Product Owner**:

- **Pune, India**

Are you excited by the opportunity of using your knowledge of Product to lead a team to success? Would you like to be a part of a great work happening in Western Union to reimagine the customer experience enabling the vision of making the cross-currency, cross-border money movement seamless for our customers? Are you interested in joining a globally diverse organization where our unique contributions are recognized and celebrated, allowing each of us to thrive? Join Western Union as Product Owner.

**Western Union powers your pursuit.**

In this Product Owner role, you will work primarily in Product organization with the critical product manage product requirements, define and document business and operational processes, own and manage sprints, and own end to end delivery for new features and capabilities. The PO has a significant role in realizing the vision of the product strategy and ensuring that products are services are developed with the needs of our customers in mind.

**Role Responsibilities**
- Preparation and Participation in the Program Increment (PI) Planning.
- Maintaining the Sprint Backlog and participating in all team events (Daily Huddle, Retrospectives, Backlog Refinement, etc.) to support the team’s understanding of the work.
- Preparation and participation in the team’s Sprint Planning.
- ‘Just-in-time’ story elaboration.
- Accepting stories; validation that the story meets acceptance criteria and has the appropriate acceptance tests, meeting the Definition of Done.
- Understand enabler work; discern upcoming enablers and collaborate with Architects to prioritize enablers.
- The Team Product Owner (PO) is a member of the Agile Team responsible for defining Stories and prioritizing the Team Backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the Features or components for the team.
- For most enterprises moving to Agile, this is a new and critical role, typically translating into a full-time job, requiring one PO to support each Agile team.
- This role has significant relationships and responsibilities outside the local team, including working with Product Management (who is responsible for the Program Backlog, to prepare for the Program Increment (PI) Planning), System Architects/Engineering, Customers and Business Owners

**Role Requirements**
- Previous working experience as a Product Owner for 6+ years.
- In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles.
- Outstanding communication, presentation and leadership skills.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Attention to details.
- Scrum experience required.
- Product Owner certification from an accredited organization.
- Understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle.
- Understanding of team metrics to track, interpret and course correct.
- Understanding of Western Union complex product environment and dependencies.
- Familiarity of SAFe framework (desired).
- Strong communication skills with ability to interact with cross-functional roles.

**We make financial services accessible to humans everywhere. Join us for what’s next.**

Western Union is positioned to become the world’s most accessible financial services company —transforming lives and communities. We’re a diverse and passionate customer-centric team of over 8,000 employees serving 200 countries and territories, reaching customers and receivers around the globe. More than moving money, we design easy-to-use products and services for our digital and physical financial ecosystem that help our customers move forward.

**Benefits**

Your India specific benefits include:

- Employees Provident Fund [EPF]
- Gratuity Payment
- Public holidays
- Annual Leave, Sick leave, Compensatory leave, and Maternity / Paternity leave
- Annual Health Check up
- Hospitalization Insurance Coverage (Mediclaim)
- Group Life Insurance, Group Personal Accident Insurance Coverage, Business Travel Insurance
- Cab Facility
- Relocation Benefit

Western Union values in-person collaboration, learning, and ideation whenever possible. We believe this creates value through common ways of working and supports the execution of enterprise objectives which will ultimately help us achieve our strategic goals. By connecting face-to-face, we are better able to learn from our peers, problem-solve together, and innovate.

Our Hybrid Work Model categorizes each role into one of three categories. Western Union has determined the category of this role to be Hybrid. This is defined as a flexible working arrangement that enables employees to divide their time between working from home and working from an office location. The expectation is to work from the office a minimum of three days a week.

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