• Ensure the co-creation and refinement of requirements (business value)
• Understand and anticipate the needs of the stakeholders and customers.
• Represent the Business stakeholders to the team.
• Understand the technical scope of the Cloud Service(s) required for your product.
• Act as primary communicator and liaison between the stakeholders and the team and ensure all channels of communication are open as required.
• Ensure that the product group is always working towards delivering the highest business value.
• Inspect progress at the end of every iteration (sprintly / bi-sprintly) with complete authority to accept or reject work done.
• Capture stakeholder feedback during reviews to refine existing product backlog items or create new ones for future consideration.
• Change the course of the increment at the end of every iteration, as necessary, to ensure that the desired business value is delivered.
• Help the team prioritize risk mitigation and technical debt reduction.
• Ensure that cross-product group impacts related to their initiatives are communicated to other product group(s) when applicable.
• Ensure that cross-product group impacts that have been communicated by other product group(s) are discussed and addressed as applicable.
• Convey the initiative vision / objective and key results; and ensuring it is understood by the Pod Product Owners.
• Convey the objectives at the beginning of every release / iteration and ensure it is understood by the team.
• Generate and maintain the list of work to be completed by the pod(s).
• Write product backlog items along with acceptance criteria.
• Ensure the refinement of requirements (work) occurs so that the development team can confidently commit to the completion / delivery of work.
• Continuously prioritizing and sequencing the backlog to ensure that the team can deliver the highest business value iteratively and incrementally.
• Participate in the check-ins, planning meetings, reviews, retrospective and refinement as determined and defined by the team.
• Make the work visible and transparent to the team.
• Mitigate identified risk, taking inputs from all members of the team and prioritizing risk backlog items appropriately.

Required Skills

• 5-7 years of experience.
• Possess a diverse set of career experiences and have worked across several businesses.
• Skills and demonstrated knowledge in product development, backlog management, stakeholder integration.
• Experience influencing at senior levels across matrixed structures to drive outcomes.
• Solid grounding in Cloud technologies across one or more Cloud Service providers (Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Experience in using tools such as JIRA / Confluence for managing backlogs.

Last updated : 2024-05-08