Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Product Owner to join our product organization in Chennai. This role will work closely with Product Management, Engineering, Architecture, UX, Quality, Security, and other Product Owners to translate product strategy and customer needs into explicit, actionable priorities for engineering teams.

The Product Owner will be responsible for defining and prioritizing the team backlog, providing clarity on customer and business outcomes, supporting product discovery, and enabling the delivery of secure, scalable, and high-quality solutions.

We are looking for a Product Owner who goes beyond backlog management and understands the customer problem, business value, product context, and technical considerations required to make effective product decisions.

Location: Chennai, India (Hybrid)

Responsibilities

Product Ownership and Delivery

- Translate product strategy, customer needs, and business priorities into well-defined features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Own, prioritize, and continuously refine the team backlog in alignment with Product Management priorities.
- Ensure the engineering team understands the customer problem, expected outcome, and value behind the work.
- Make timely product decisions and provide clarification throughout the development lifecycle.
- Review delivered capabilities against agreed requirements, acceptance criteria, and intended customer outcomes.
- Balance new capabilities with technical enablers, quality improvements, security requirements, and technical debt.

Product Discovery and Collaboration

- Partner with Product Management, Engineering,



Architecture, UX, and other stakeholders to understand and validate customer problems.
- Support product discovery through customer feedback, technical investigations, prototypes, and incremental validation.
- Collaborate with other Product Owners to manage dependencies and ensure alignment across teams.
- Understand technical constraints and trade-offs sufficiently to support effective prioritization and product decisions.
- Identify dependencies, risks, edge cases, and operational considerations early in the development process.

Agile Planning and Execution

- Participate in roadmap refinement, PI Planning, iteration planning, backlog refinement, demos, retrospectives, and Inspect & Adapt activities where applicable.
- Ensure features and stories are sufficiently prepared ahead of planning and development.
- Coordinate priorities and dependencies across teams.
- Track progress toward product outcomes and adjust priorities based on customer feedback, business needs, and delivery learnings.

Technical Requirements

The Product Owner is not expected to define engineering implementation but should have sufficient technical understanding to engage effectively with engineers and architects.

Experience or working knowledge in several of the following areas is preferred:

- Cloud-based platforms
- Mobile applications and ecosystems

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