Job Title: Product Owner
Experience: 8-10 years
The ideal candidate will work closely with business stakeholders, customers, developers, QA engineers, technical leads, and project management teams to translate business needs into clear, actionable requirements. The Product Owner will be responsible for maintaining backlog readiness, maximizing product value, and ensuring that delivered features meet business expectations.
The candidate should have strong analytical skills, excellent communication abilities, hands-on experience with Agile methodologies, and practical experience using Azure DevOps or similar work management tools.
Key Responsibilities
A. Product Vision and Requirement Management
• Understand business objectives, customer needs, and product goals.
• Collaborate with customers and internal stakeholders to gather, analyze, and document business requirements.
• Translate business requirements into user stories, functional requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain requirement traceability from business needs through development, testing, and release.
• Identify requirement gaps, dependencies, assumptions, and potential risks.
• Facilitate requirement workshops, stakeholder discussions, and clarification sessions.
• Maintain and communicate product priorities and roadmap updates.
B. Product Backlog Management
• Own, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog based on business value, customer priorities, dependencies, risks, and delivery capacity.
• Create well-defined epics, features, user stories, and tasks in Azure DevOps.
• Ensure backlog items meet the team's Definition of Ready before sprint planning.
• Collaborate with technical leads and developers to assess feasibility, dependencies, and implementation options.
• Refine and break down large requirements into smaller, deliverable user stories.
• Maintain backlog quality, completeness, and readiness for upcoming sprints.
• Manage scope changes and communicate their impact on delivery timelines and
priorities.
C. Agile Delivery and Sprint Execution
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Work closely with Scrum Masters, Project Managers, and development teams to
support predictable delivery.
• Clarify business requirements and resolve functional questions during development.
• Review sprint progress and help address requirement-related blockers.
• Ensure the team understands the business value and expected outcomes of each
backlog item.
• Coordinate with QA teams to ensure test scenarios and acceptance criteria reflect
business expectations.
• Support release planning and communicate feature readiness to stakeholders.
D. Stakeholder and Customer Management
• Act as the primary point of contact for product-related requirements and
prioritization.
• Build effective working relationships with customers, business users, technical teams,
and management.
• Communicate product priorities, scope changes, dependencies, and delivery
expectations clearly.
• Facilitate discussions when stakeholders have conflicting requirements or priorities.
• Obtain stakeholder feedback and incorporate it into backlog refinement.
• Ensure business stakeholders understand the implications of requested changes.
E. Acceptance Testing and Release Readiness
• Define measurable acceptance criteria for user stories and features.
• Review completed functionality against agreed requirements.
• Coordinate user acceptance testing (UAT) with business stakeholders.
• Record, prioritize, and track defects or gaps identified during validation.
• Obtain business acceptance or approval from authorized stakeholders.
• Support release readiness reviews, release notes, and post-release feedback.
• Ensure that delivered functionality meets agreed quality and business acceptance
standards.
F. Reporting and Continuous Improvement
• Maintain transparent visibility into backlog status, sprint goals, feature progress, and
open decisions.
• Use Azure DevOps dashboards and queries to track work items, blockers, defects, and
delivery progress.
• Monitor product and delivery metrics such as backlog readiness, acceptance rate,
defect trends, and sprint goal achievement.
• Identify opportunities to improve requirements quality, delivery processes, and
stakeholder collaboration.
• Support continuous improvement through retrospectives and feedback-driven
prioritization.