SRS Business Solutions India is looking for a highly experienced and versatile Associate Principal Consultant - Product Owner. We need a techno-functional expert with over 11 years of experience, including a minimum of 3-4 years as a Product Owner in product engineering companies. If you're an immediate joiner with a consulting mindset, capable of driving product development from research to delivery, we encourage you to apply!

Job Description

As an Associate Principal Consultant - Product Owner, you will:

Business Needs & Specification: Apply a consulting mindset to conduct thorough research, understand complex business needs, and refine them into clear software specifications via features and user stories.
Issue Resolution: Build an in-depth understanding of issues that arise throughout the product development lifecycle, analyzing them from various angles to find effective solutions.
Backlog Ownership: Own and perform continuous backlog grooming, acting as the key liaison between Business and Engineering teams.
Solution Facilitation: Facilitate solution optioning discussions with Engineering teams to ensure optimal technical approaches.
Feature Definition: Write and document features clearly, aligning them with overarching business goals and metrics.
Acceptance Criteria & Prioritization: Define clear Acceptance Criteria and expertly drive business priority for development efforts.
Cross-Team Coordination: Expertly coordinate between Product Owners of other teams, Engineering teams, and Business stakeholders to drive overall business priority and achieve goals.
User Story Crafting: Write user stories effectively in ATDD (Acceptance Test-Driven Development) format.
Agile & Development Practices: Possess a sound understanding of Agile and Scrum practices, along with a solid background in BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) and ATDD.
Application Architecture: Have a very good background and understanding of Distributed and Decoupled Web and API based applications and their architectural approach.
Team Collaboration: Experience working with geographically distributed Engineering/Scrum teams.
Stakeholder Engagement: Able to define and drive a clear stakeholder engagement communications plan. Collects and uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure the effectiveness of stakeholder management.
Project Management: Possess project management skills to define, document, and execute small projects or sub-projects independently or with a small team, actively participating in all phases.
Communication: Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Product Strategy: Have a sound understanding of MVP (Minimum Viable Product) and MVS (Minimum Viable Service).

Good to Have Skills

Product Owner experience in the Wholesale Automotive domain.
CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner) or SAFe Product Owner certifications.

Note: We are specifically looking for immediate joiners (candidates whose notice period is served or are currently serving their notice period). Please apply only if you meet this criterion.

Associate Principal Consultant-Product Owner