Salesforce Product Owner

We are currently seeking a Product Owner to join our team in Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

As a Senor Product Owner, you will have the opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a new division created within one of the largest technology providers in the world. We are building the next generation of digital services companies and believe clients are ready for a more nimble, agile partner to deliver outcomes across the SFDC platform
- including AgentForce, Sales, Service, Marketing, Vlocity, MuleSoft, Tableau, etc.

How You'll Help Us:
You'll help us by viewing this opportunity as more than a job, but an opportunity to mold the business and as a place to grow your career with a core group of highly talented individuals across the US, Costa Rica, Canada, and India. We put an emphasis on training, improving consulting skills, and helping you achieve certifications. You'd be joining a company that has 3,000+ SF certifications, so you know you are part of a highly skilled team that values investing in team education and skill-building.

Why the Role Is Important:
Our Product Owners are fundamental to ensuring the digital technology and related services that NTT DATA builds for our clients are valuable, intuitive, and impactful. The work of the Senior Product Owner focuses on Product Definition and supports Product Delivery. On small/simple engagements (e.g., one scrum team or product expansion), this role typically also leads the breakdown of epics into fully defined features to accomplish the vision. Outcomes include products that deliver maximum value relative to effort, and sufficient workload for the full team.

Once You Are Here, You Will:

- Lead discussions with stakeholders to understand business and user needs and translate them into technical requirements. Support the accomplishment of the product vision by breaking down the business needs into features and stories.
- Design software solutions with user friendliness in mind, that are in line with business / market demands and delivers maximum efficiency and efficacy. Documentation must include user stories and acceptance criteria, and may include use cases, journey/story maps, business rules, data and process flows, gap analysis, and/or functional/non-functional specifications.
- Maintain a backlog of user stories that meet the definition of ready. Strive to keep the backlog prioritized with two sprints worth of ready stories for multiple scrum teams.
- Work cross-functionally to identify business and technical interdependencies, establish alignment / transparency across teams for smooth communications and milestone deliveries.
- Proactively influence business decision making, gain key stakeholder buy-ins with regards to feature definition. Utilize good business sense, and business data when available, to back up your reasoning.
- Serve as agile/scrum product owner. Attend daily scrum; provide guidance. Facilitate sprint reviews by presenting features' benefit/value before engineers' demo work. Conduct initial acceptance testing of each story. Participate in retrospectives and other ceremonies.
- Represent the interests of the business and users to the development team. Resolve impediments.
- Prioritize the backlog based on highest relative value to the client, while factoring in dependencies. Manage scope to deliver value each sprint. Contribute to release planning.
- Build a strong partnership with software and quality engineers. Collaborate to find efficient ways to satisfy business and user needs.
- Convey the product vision, strategy, and roadmap to peers
- Contribute to defining the product roadmap, and aligning it with client and user goals/needs.
- Identify and help establish OKRs and KPIs with an aim to build functionalities that meet these metrics, maintain a list of metrics utilized to measure success of each feature.
- Frequently educate end-users and key stakeholders on the latest product features and their business benefits, gain feedback, and use the feedback to continuously iterate on product functionalities. Periodically convey and re-convey product vision, strategy, and roadmaps.
- Support clients in creating or revising related processes and/or marketing material, by sharing product info and offering feedback.
- See through and execute on the product's development lifecycle from ideation to MVP definition, to build and test, to release in an end-to-end fashion
- Mentor and coach junior product owners, helping them develop their skills and navigate challenges.

Required Qualifications:

- 8 years of experience as a Product Owner/Product Manager
- Minimum 5 years of experience in full software development life cycle
- Holds 2 of the following current certifications:

- CSPO
- ACSPO
- CSPPO
- PSPO
- Professional Scrum Product Backlog Management Skills
- Certified Product Manager
- SAFe Practitioner
- SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager
- SAFe Advanced Product Manager
- SAFe Agilist
- Practicing Emotional Intelligence through Self-Manag