Job Purpose: The Product Owner role is responsible for owning and managing the product backlog, ensuring alignment with business goals, and driving value delivery through effective stakeholder engagement, backlog prioritization, and collaboration with development teams. The role bridges business and technology by defining user stories, validating deliverables, supporting tender responses, and championing continuous improvement to deliver high‑quality products that meet strategic objectives.
As per company policy, this role requires presence in the office 4 days per week.
Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring clarity, prioritization, and alignment with business goals.
Define and refine user stories and acceptance criteria to guide the development team.
Validate deliverables against acceptance criteria and ensure they meet quality standards.
Act as a liaison between Technology, Sales, Programs, Marketing and Service to assist in the creation of product technical specifications. Provide input from all departments to the R&D; design team/s, coordinate design review meetings such that Current Product Introductions (NPI) meet sales and business objectives.
Through periodic review maintain relevant technical content of sales support and sales/distributor training materials.
Backlog Management
Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring clarity, prioritization, and alignment with business goals.
Write and refine user stories, acceptance criteria, and epics to guide the development team.
Continuously groom the backlog to reflect evolving priorities and stakeholder feedback.
Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, customers, and the development team.
Development Collaboration




Partner closely with the development team to ensure smooth planning and execution.
Provide timely clarification and decision-making support during development cycles.
Validate deliverables against acceptance criteria and ensure they meet quality standards.
Measure and track product performance against defined KPIs and success metrics.
Collaborate with business development, sales, and technical teams to craft compelling responses that align with client requirements and organizational strategy.
Translate complex technical concepts into business‑focused language that highlights competitive advantage and differentiators.
Bachelor's or master's degree in a related field.
Proven experience (3+ years) as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or in a similar role.
Knowledge of the Microsoft Office software suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio).
Knowledge in the use of SAP & JIRA
Excellent communication skills particularly in English (fluently spoken and written) in addition to any local language spoken at the place of work.
Proven matrix and stakeholder management skills/experience working virtually in diverse teams.
Overall, exceptional programme, project and time management skills – highly organised and detailed orientated
The understanding and recognition of the organisation's commercial environment and positioning themselves, their role and their actions in order to support the organisation's commercial success.
The ability to build an effective network of relationships both internally and externally, understanding their customers' needs.
Experience of collaborating in a cross functional and cross-cultural organisation, with the ability to act as the bridge between the markets (sales) teams and the portfolio teams.
Portfolio Managers, Product Managers, Development community

📌 English speaking Product Owner (Bengaluru)
🏢 Smiths Detection
📍 Bengaluru