Agile Product Owner

**Requisition ID**:317583
**Work Area**: Consulting and Professional Services
**Expected Travel**: 0 - 10%
**Career Status**: Professional
**Employment Type**: Regular Full Time
**Career Level**: T4PF
**Hiring Manager**: Juliane Wuschek

**Recruiter Name**: Neelima Kukreja

**COMPANY DESCRIPTION**

SAP values the entrepreneurial spirit, fostering creativity and building lasting relationships with our employees. We know that a diverse and inclusive workforce keeps us competitive and provides opportunities for all. We believe that together we can transform industries, grow economics, lift up societies and sustain our environment. Because it’s the best-run businesses that make the world run better and improve people’s lives.

**PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES**

**EXPECTATIONS AND** **TASKS**
- Create an understanding of business contexts, requirements, objectives, and expectations of internal and external customers
- Work with the Tech Lead, Product Designer and Stakeholders to create a roadmap based on our strategy to build shared cross-product services to enhance the consistent user experience across our whole product portfolio
- Drive the discovery phase to uncover the needs of our customers and users
- Align priorities and maintain a prioritized backlog across all sources of work (for example other teams’ dependencies, tech strategy )
- Own the team’s backlog, define, and write epics and stories in collaboration with engineers
- Communicate with and manage expectations towards the team and the stakeholders
- Manage for progress, help remove impediments to ensure delivery
- Be the spokesperson and ambassador of team achievements to the rest of the organization
- Work with all development process contributors, e.g., Product Managers, Architects, Project Management, Scrum Masters, Developers, User Assistance Developer and DevOps to establish and execute a flawless development process

**EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS/ SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES**
- Bachelor’s in computer science engineering or Technology (BE/B.Tech, MCA/MTech), or allied branches
- Experience in agile development practices (SCRUM) test-driven development as well as domain-driven development is required
- Ability to lead through and create progress when things aren’t clear, or the way forward is not yet well-defined
- Communication skills that allow you to translate between different domains and adjust to different audiences
- A solid toolkit and methods that help you along the path from problem to a solution delivered and adopted (prioritization, slicing and aligning scope, planning and estimation etc.)
- An eye for non-functional requirements such as security, performance, scalability, availability, cost and operations
- An understanding of the technical challenges and solutions that occur in today’s cloud-native, connected landscape
- Strong user focus and methods - discovering user needs, introducing KPIs, metrics, etc.
- A passion for coaching and mentoring your less experienced colleagues by drawing upon your experience, skills, and knowledge to ‘give back’ to others

**WORK EXPERIENCE**
- 10+ years of experience in building software products / service
- Experience in working as a Product Owner or Manager in an agile environment
- Worked in the global teams with high levels of collaboration
- Good writing & presentation skills

**WHAT YOU GET FROM US**

**SAP'S DIVERSITY COMMITMENT**
To harness the power of innovation, SAP invests in the development of its diverse employees. We aspire to leverage the qualities and appreciate the unique competencies that each person brings to the company.