• Experience working in a Product Owner / Business Analyst capacity for a software product.
• Experience working on large scale / enterprise-grade software products and deep knowledge of the product development lifecycle.
• Good software engineering acumen and some technical background.
• Good understanding of the Agile development model - scrum roles, ceremonies and artefacts. (CSPO certification is good to have)
• Excellent cross-functional communication and convincing skills both internal and external. Excellent written and presentation skills.
• Ability to drive ideas/concepts of product development from concept to the final product.
• Close experience of effectively working with stakeholders and software development teams.
• Adaptability working in a dynamic environment staying well organised with an ability to prioritise effectively.
• Ability to analyse data, situations and develop an appropriate range of solutions.
• Must be a decisive, action-orientated individual with an ability to work using own initiative with minimal supervision.
• Flexibility to travel across India, UK and internationally as and when the business requires

Responsibilities

• Engage with internal stakeholders to understand and clearly document business needs
• Ensure business requirements are clearly translated into high-quality user stories for scrum teams
• Act as the Product Owner within a scrum team (on behalf of the Product Manager) to deliver enhancements and new developments as required by the organisation’s product strategy and delivery programme
• Assist in managing stakeholder expectations and project perceptions
• Identify the stakeholders for each piece of work undertaken
• Understand stakeholder perspectives
• Provide information to stakeholders, appropriate to their needs
• Use appropriate elicitation methods to identify the business requirements for each piece of work undertaken
• Use appropriate methods to analyse the requirements
• Validate the requirements with stakeholders (including Product Management, architects, UX / UI experts, scrum team members and customer-facing parts of)
• Support Product Management for the planning process
• Define features and obtain sizing from the scrum team
• Define user stories for the features
• Manage the product backlog for the scrum team you are working with
• Ensure the backlog is refined with sufficient sprint ready user stories for the next sprint planning session
• Attend all Scrum ceremonies as part of the scrum team
• Provide progress reporting to stakeholders as required
• Communicate to stakeholders on behalf of the scrum team as required.
• Present the areas of the system to the wider community and support customer-facing colleagues in these areas.
• Provide release content notes to support wider internal and external communication on what has been delivered.