Job Title: R&D; Product Owner

Location: Remote – India

Contract: 6 Months (Initial), with possibility of extension

Experience: 5+ Years

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced R&D; Product Owner to support enterprise technology initiatives within the pharmaceutical industry.

The ideal candidate will bring strong product ownership experience across enterprise IT, particularly in data, analytics, digital, automation, and AI-enabled products. This role requires the ability to translate business priorities into delivery-ready backlogs, collaborate closely with business-facing leaders and technical teams, and ensure successful execution across complex enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities

- Own product backlog refinement and delivery readiness while aligning with business priorities and domain objectives.
- Translate approved business requirements into epics, features, and well-defined user stories.
- Break down features, structure backlogs, and define transparent acceptance criteria.
- Identify dependencies, technical constraints, and data readiness requirements ahead of delivery planning.
- Prepare delivery-ready inputs for PI and sprint planning.
- Partner with business-facing leaders and Product Managers while maintaining ownership of backlog clarity and execution quality.
- Understand existing enterprise systems, data landscapes, business processes, and integrations.
- Translate business needs into scalable digital, data, analytics, and AI solutions.
- Support business analysis and delivery of enterprise solutions across complex, global organizations.
- Work with data and analytics teams across data ingestion, modeling, transformation, analytics consumption,



and operationalization of insights.
- Support the design, implementation, and adoption of business applications and workflow-based digital solutions across multiple business units.
- Shape analytics, AI, and ML use cases, including requirements definition and integration of models into business processes.
- Ensure alignment with enterprise platform and data governance standards.

Mandatory Skills & Qualifications

- 5+ years of Product Ownership experience in enterprise IT, combining business-facing product ownership with delivery execution.
- 5+ years of experience in backlog refinement and delivery readiness, including:
- Feature decomposition and backlog structuring.
- User story development and acceptance criteria definition.
- Dependency, technical constraint, and data readiness identification.
- Preparation of delivery-ready inputs for PI and sprint planning.
- 5+ years of experience with Data, Analytics, Digital, Automation, or AI products.
- Experience delivering enterprise digital, data, analytics, and AI solutions within complex, global organizations.
- Strong understanding of end-to-end data and analytics lifecycles, including ingestion, modeling, transformation, and analytics consumption.




- Experience supporting business applications and workflow-based digital solutions across multiple business units.
- Experience with analytics, AI, and ML-enabled solutions, including use-case shaping, requirements definition, and model integration into business processes.
- Knowledge of data modeling, data integration, data quality, and structured datasets.
- Strong understanding of relational databases and SQL or similar querying technologies.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with data engineers and analytics teams.
- Broad understanding of enterprise cloud ecosystems, data platforms, productivity platforms, and cloud services supporting analytics and AI workloads.

About NetworkPedia

NetworkPedia is a certified women-owned technology and talent solutions company, providing IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, managed services, and specialized recruitment across North Americas and beyond. Our mission is to empower organizations with secure, scalable, and innovative technology while building inclusive teams that reflect the communities we serve.

As a trusted partner, we deliver expertise across networking, cloud, IT service management, and security operations, along with staffing solutions for niche technology roles. We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in all our hiring practices and ensure that our opportunities are open to all qualified applicants, without discrimination on the basis of age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or disability.

How to Apply

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