The Lead Product Owner is a hands-on position responsible for liaising between key Business / Product stakeholders across the firm and technology to exchange information in a concise and understandable way to promote development and delivery, operational stability, and quality process improvements, adhering to and implementing Agile principles on the assigned teams.

The individual will be an agile practitioner, with product and business knowledge with an attitude of continuous improvement. With experience of leading and managing people.

Lead Product owners will be responsible for managing the team, developing and executing the vision of how the product should function, define specific product features, and break those features into product backlog items and prioritize for the Scrum team to work on.

Works with Business Stakeholders and Product Managers to build the product vision, product roadmap and release Plan.

Responsibilities:
- The Lead Product owner will be responsible for developing and executing the vision of how the product should function,



define specific product features, and break those features into product backlog items and prioritize for the Scrum team to work on.
- Managing the product owner team to support delivery, business prioritisation and focus.
- Developing and explicitly communicating the Product Goal; Creating and clearly communicating Product Backlog Items; Ordering Product Backlog Items; Ensuring that the Product Backlog is transparent, visible, and understood.
- Facilitate Agile development process, create and sustain high performing Agile teams, and help them deliver high quality software
- Participate in all needed agile ceremonies including but not limited to sprint planning, refinements, sprint review, retros, and daily standups, scrum of scrums and monthly release deployment activities.
- Work closely with Scrum Master and tech lead to ensure execution efficiency by through productive sprint planning, maintaining optimal velocity,

📌 VP- Lead Product Owner- Issuer Services (Mumbai)
🏢 Citi
📍 Mumbai