Product Owner

**Product Owner**

**Bangalore, India**

**The Opportunity**:
Anthology offers the largest EdTech ecosystem on a global scale, supporting over 150 million users in 80countries. Our mission is to provide dynamic, data-informed experiences to the global education community so that learners and educators can achieve their goals.

We believe in the power of a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. As we expand globally, we are committed to making diversity, inclusion, and belonging a foundational part of not only our hiring practices but who we are as a company.

Product Owners at Anthology are tasked with delivering solutions to the higher education community.

As a Product Owner at Anthology:

- You are a team player, adept at managing relationships, collaborating, and influencing across a variety of organizational functions
- You should be prepared to make decisions with imperfect information, know how to lead without authority and be comfortable managing chaos, ambiguity, and complexity
- Communications skills are key to success in this role. You will work with most departments at Anthology (development/QA, customer success, design, marketing, and sales)
- You can set priority and feature goals in alignment with the product managers and product vision as well as the needs of the customer

Primary responsibilities will include:

- Product planning, supporting development teams in understanding customer needs, as well as ongoing product lifecycle support
- Delivering on the defined roadmap for a product line or business area in conjunction with Product Development and Product Management
- Partnering with Product Development to discuss product requirements and determine viable development strategies, deliverables, and release dates to deliver per the jointly defined roadmap (writing epics, stories, acceptance criteria, etc.)
- Creating and maintaining the product backlog to align to roadmap deliverables
- Prioritizing and sequencing the backlog according to business value or ROI
- Helping formulate and convey vision and goals with the development team as part of release planning processes
- Developing expertise in Advancement, CRM, fundraising, higher education
- Providing product expertise to support the needs of Account Management, Professional Services Client Support and Training teams
- Working with UX team members and representing the customer by continuously engaging the customer and stakeholders to ensure the team is building the right product
- Participating in the daily standups, iteration planning, iteration reviews, and retrospectives
- Inspecting product progress at key or requested points within an iteration and providing feedback
- Communicating status externally and representing the voice of the team to the outside world and ensuring that all channels of communications are open
- Required skills/qualifications:_
- Bachelor’s degree or above in marketing, business, computer science or equivalent functional experience
- Minimum 3-5 years of experience in commercial software product owner and/or product management in a SaaS-based company
- Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
- Ability to engage stakeholders and collaborate cross-functionally to achieve results
- Ability to handle multiple priorities
- A results/solution-driven approach
- Strong exposure to a CRM product and process in a client centric company/industry

This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.

Anthology is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, protected military/veteran status, or any other legally protected factor.