SRS Business Solutions India is looking for a strategic and experienced Principal Consultant/Associate Principal Consultant to join our team as a Product Owner. This is a critical hybrid role for individuals with a proven track record in driving product development from inception to launch, focusing on long-term vision, market trends, and delivering incremental improvements.

Role Description

As a Product Owner, you will be a strategic leader responsible for driving the development, launch, and ongoing support of a company's products. You will focus on long-term vision, market trends, and identifying new opportunities. Working closely with the Chief Product Officer (CPO), you will define specific incremental improvements to be managed across different squads.

Key Responsibilities

Market Analysis & Opportunity Identification: Analyze market trends, monitor competitors, and identify new opportunities within organizational processes.
Product Vision & Strategy: Set an ambitious and clear product vision, communicating it effectively to stakeholders, the team, and the rest of the unit.
End-to-End Product Strategy: Own the end-to-end team output strategy, from initial inception through to production.
Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate closely with stakeholders to ensure the digital vision and products align seamlessly with value streams.
KPI Accountability: Be accountable for product-specific KPIs once a solution enters production and communicate regular tracking updates to stakeholders.
User Story & Backlog Management: Utilize market and industry knowledge to translate user needs into clear user stories and acceptance criteria for your team. Maintain a well-groomed backlog, ideally 3 to 4 sprints ahead of the team.
Business Value & Messaging: Work closely with the CPO to establish each product's business value and support messaging, communication, and customer outreach as necessary.
User-Centric Design: Integrate usability studies and research into product requirements to enhance user satisfaction and ensure customer-driven design.

Previous Experience

Overall Experience: 11+ years of overall experience.
Relevant Experience: 2 to 3 years of experience in roles with similar Product Management/Owner responsibilities.

Skills & Competencies

Leadership:
Effectively manages own time and provides clear visibility into ongoing work.
Recognizes when teammates encounter difficulties and readily offers support.
Demonstrates initiative by taking action without constant direction.
Agile Proficiency:
Applies values of quality, responsiveness to change, and customer centricity in ways of working.
Works iteratively and incrementally as a standard practice.
Understands the differences between agile and traditional practices and can select the best fit for context.
Design Acumen:
Possesses knowledge of good design practices (e.g., design patterns, known structures, industry solutions) applicable to the role.
Identifies opportunities or issues to apply best practices.
Optimization Focus:
Designs solutions with performance in mind.
Performs Proof of Concepts (POCs) on potential solutions to assess their impact.
Identifies performance issues in day-to-day operations and alerts the team.
Analyzes technologies or methods that can complement, improve, or optimize solutions.
Offers optimization solutions that positively impact key metrics (e.g., turnaround/processing time, resource consumption).
Technical Tutoring:
Has the necessary knowledge to solve many technical impediments encountered by the development team.
Knows and suggests good practices, novel technologies, and methodologies with the potential to add value to projects.
Promotes discussions on the best ways to approach a solution.
Provides ongoing on-the-job coaching to junior team members.

Note: We are looking for candidates who are Immediate to 20 Days notice period (Serving). If you lack these specific skills, please consider informing your network about this opportunity.

Principal Consultant/Associate Principal Consultant-Product Owner