Overview of The Role :

As a Product Owner, you are required to have a solid understanding of product development processes, from ideation to delivery. This role requires a balance of technical knowledge, business acumen, and stakeholder management.

With a track record of delivering high-quality products, the Product Owner collaborates closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the product vision is clearly defined and strategic goals are achieved.

Job Responsibilities :

- Continuously stay updated with market trends, customer needs, and industry standards while gaining a deep understanding of the product's domain knowledge and its ecosystem.

- Proactively seek knowledge from relevant stakeholders to enhance understanding of the product landscape.

- Drive collaboration with the Scrum Master to identify and address any impediments or challenges that may arise during the sprint cycle, proactively seeking solutions to keep the team on track.

- Motivate and guide the team to achieve sprint goals and deliver high-quality work increments, while taking ownership of creating and maintaining a clear, prioritised product backlog.

- Act as the primary stakeholder for the product, ensuring alignment with stakeholder needs while driving the product forward.

- Own the articulation of the vision solution for technical leads and teams, providing clear direction on the technical approach, while managing the product backlog to ensure effective prioritisation and well-defined user stories.

- Exposure of sprint reviews and UAT handoff calls to ensure stakeholders receive the expected outcomes while defining and maintaining quality standards to address any deviations promptly.

- Champion the product by articulating its value proposition and ensuring alignment with business objectives, while driving the UX design process through facilitating sessions and collaborating with UI/UX design teams.

- Drive the development process by collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, while taking proactive measures to address dependencies and mitigate risks throughout the product lifecycle.

- Motivate and guide the team to prioritise quality in all aspects of their work, from development to testing to release, driving continuous improvement and optimisation of processes.

- Coordinate with cross-functional teams to orchestrate the development process and ensure alignment with product vision.

- Orchestrate sprint planning sessions and backlog grooming sessions in collaboration with the Scrum Master, ensuring that they are conducted effectively and that the team has a clear understanding of the work ahead.

- Collaborate with the Scrum Master and other stakeholders to identify and address any bottlenecks or challenges that may impact the delivery timeline or quality of work.

- Actively participate in sprint planning, review meetings, and retrospectives to ensure smooth execution of development activities.

- Engage with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement and foster a culture of collaboration.

- Participate in discussions and decision-making related to delivery timelines and quality standards, providing input and guidance from a product perspective.

Skills & Qualifications :

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in any related field or equivalent qualification.

- 3- 5 years of relevant (product owner, business analyst) experience with excellent communication skills , great analytical, problem-solving and critical thinking skills.

- A strong analytical mindset with a proven ability to understand a variety of business problems through stakeholder interactions and other methods. The prowess to ideate innovative IT solutions by means of established products as well as custom IT solutions.

- Ability to interpret nuanced technological facets from business inputs gathered through stakeholder interactions to facilitate the requisite bridging between them and the members of the product development team.

- Solid knowledge and appreciation of Agile fundamentals with product development experience following Scrum, & Kanban.

- Extensive experience in transforming stakeholder vision into a detailed and well-structured product backlog while crafting a clear and actionable product roadmap.

- Expertise around various kinds of requirement documentation formats such as BRD, FRD, SRS, Use-Cases, User-Stories, and creating other documents such as Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs), System Flows, Context diagrams, etc.

- Hands-on experience on diagrammatic analysis & representation of business processes, data & system flows using BPMN & UML diagrams such as activity flow, sequence diagrams, DFDs, etc using tools such as MS Visio, draw.io and other industry-popular tools.

- Must have experience driving UI/UX design activities in collaboration with graphic and UI design teams using enabler tools like wireframes, sketches, flow diagrams, and information architecture, along with hands-on expertise in Atlassian tools such as JIRA and Confluence; familiarity with Bitbucket is a plus.

- Hands-on experience in SQL, including writing simple to moderately complex queries, along with knowledge of Logical Data Modeling (ER Modeling), System Integrations and APIs.

- Should be familiar with wrapper APIs, Elastic-search indexes, and AWS S3 will be an advantage.

- Experience of working on Healthcare Insurance domain-focused IT products and /or Industry knowledge would be a huge plus.