Job Title: Manager | Product Owner/Manager | Bengaluru | Engineering
Primary responsibilities:
- Define Value Stream Product vision and deliver roadmaps and epics to Value Stream Technical Leads and Technical Product Owners.
- Collaborate with hands-on development team, product team, and design team in support of various platform/services capabilities surrounding Abound
- Understand business' overall software applications' portfolio, growth priorities, and success measures to craft solutions for features provided as a service
- Take ownership over product items and help lead all initiatives needed to roll out – technical requirements, business needs, etc.
- Delivers solutions to meet customer needs, ensuring technical feasibility & scalability of new initiatives through successful deployments & continuous delivery
· Partner with adjacent Product Managers to understand shared product vision and short- & long-term roadmap
· Partner with Product/Platform Product Manager, other Value Stream Product Managers, Designers, and Solutions Architects to translate business needs into clear Initiatives, Product Epics, and Epics/Features that can be consumed by the teams.
· Ensure Epics meet acceptance criteria before deployment.
· Conduct user acceptance testing (UAT) and coordinate with business stakeholders and QA team to validate and confirm acceptance.
· Report progress on feature and epic delivery to Product/Platform Product Manager and Business Stakeholders. Report progress on quarterly goals, initiatives and commitments to Product/Platform Product Manager and Business Stakeholders.
· Be an active participant in Quarterly Product Increment Planning as well as other strategy and planning sessions with business stakeholders.
· Effectively communicate and facilitate tradeoff decisions, e.g. choice between 2 methodologies – to product & tech so decision can be made on approach with business stakeholders.
Required experience:
- Typical experience required is 8-10+ years of experience as a product manager for digital software/SaaS applications or 5-7+ years with advanced degree
- Including experience with Cloud (AWS preferred) and Edge or IoT products
- Strong customer centric experience, focusing in product usability, user experience (UX)
- Extensive experience gathering and delivering product roadmaps & requirements (writing Epics, user stories, etc.)
- Strong experience in Global Agile & SDLC environments (utilizing Jira or Aha! for reporting and tracking)
- Experience defining and designing solutions for a wide variety of personas (service technicians, command center analysts, customers, managers)
- Pre-existing experience and/or demonstrated aptitude for learning digital tools such as Aha!, Jira, Figma, Confluence, Miro, LucidChart, etc
· Experience working with remote and globally distributed teams
Additional Skills:
- AWS Serverless environment preferred
- Previous development background preferred
- Strong Edge experience preferred
- Detail oriented
- Passion for and understanding of technology – working knowledge of modern, cloud-based technology. Distributed computing expertise a bonus.
- Great communication – you can translate business needs into product requirements and communicate across product and technical teams to ensure requirements are understood and actionable.
- Business acumen – desire to understand how every new feature delights customers and impacts the business
Education & Certification:
· Bachelor’s degree from a world-class school in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field preferred.
· Master’s degree in applicable discipline highly desired.
- Agile Product Owner and/or Scrum Master certified.