Product Owner

Requisition ID: 28599- Job Location(s): Oragadam, INAs a constantly growing company, Danfoss is looking for motivated employees who want to work with us on our success. We are seeking a passionate Product Owner

**Responsibilities**:
Responsibilities include, but not limited to, the following.
- Product Owner is a champion of the assigned product line. Responsibilities include the support of existing product lines and global market introductions of new products. This role also serves as the sales and marketing representative in product development teams providing market insight to the project team. Product Owner acts as a connector, bringing teams and customers/users together so the teams become more customer focused.
- Optimizing the value add, cost and quality of the product by clearly expressing Product Backlog items and documenting the value add (Value Proposition, Product Strategy, Business Value, Product Positioning)
- Prioritizing the items in the Product Backlog to best achieve goals and missions.
- Ensuring that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the Scrum Team will work on next.
- Continuously reviews the business needs, refines priorities keeping the balance between committed items and non-committed items for implementation to minimize customer disturbances when fast moving items are entering into backlog
- Is specialized in certain product management activities as Product Owner - could be across product families
- Drive product improvements based on market and customer needs with technical understanding and act as technical advisor for various internal projects
- Give necessary in-depth product support for Sales & Service teams and customers and make customer visits as required to help sales organization on key projects
- Support the sales organization in launching new products
- Facilitate the development of technical and marketing literature for new products.

**Background & Skills**:

- Bachelors degree in Engineering - Electronics / Electrical
- Exposure to global markets
- Should have a broad base of business knowledge in addition to technical knowledge.
- Able to deal technically with complete systems involving complex technical components.
- Experienced at analyzing customer needs and defining solutions.
- Experience in Product Management and/or Product Development
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
- Previous experience in similar business with good understanding of Agile product development
- **Personal characteristics**
- A proactive self-starter, keen to work in the fluid / dynamic environment
- Solution focused, not technology biased; will seek the appropriate tool for the job.
- Good aptitude with outstanding technical, interpersonal and communication skills.
- Demonstrating accountability.
- Leveraging the team to get results beyond targets.
- Stakeholder management & collaboration skills
- Positive attitude, character, Integrity, Motivation, Determination and create value to the organization

**Danfoss - Engineering Tomorrow**:
At Danfoss, we are engineering solutions that allow the world to use resources in smarter ways - driving the sustainable transformation of tomorrow. No transformation has ever been started without a group of passionate, dedicated and empowered people. We believe that innovation and great results are driven by the right mix of people with diverse backgrounds, personalities, skills, and perspectives, reflecting the world in which we do business. To make sure the mix of people works, we strive to create an inclusive work environment where people of all backgrounds are treated equally, respected, and valued for who they are. It is a strong priority within Danfoss to improve the health, working environment and safety of our employees.

Following our founder’s mindset “action speaks louder than words”, we set ourselves ambitious targets to protect the environment by embarking on a plan to become CO2 neutral latest by 2030.