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.
