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.
