Product Owner - Enterprise PLM

Description

Responsible for working with Agile Product Managers and other stakeholders to define stories and prioritize the Team Backlog in support of the product roadmap; Responsible for supporting the organization's mission, operations, structure, and goals; for streamlining the execution of program priorities in support of business agility and product market trends; Maintains the conceptual and technical integrity of the Features or components for the team, and maximizes the value of the product resulting from the work in the product/agile team.

Collaborates with business management on multiple products with business knowledge to identify short and long-term business priorities using Lean Agile thinking and representing the voice of the customer; product and entrepreneur mindset for owned product/s; defines the archetypical users of products; articulates and prioritizes personas and their problems so that appropriate products or solutions can be built.

Seeks out and interviews customers for user experience feedback and new market trends; illustrates market problems in a story that puts the problems in context.

Practices Lean/Agile leadership; contributes to vision and Program backlog; heavily involved in program backlog refinement, preparation for Program Increment planning, and participation in planning events; owns team backlog and implementation; accountable for effective product backlog management.

Leads Feature planning and prioritization for capabilities; applies Behavior Driven Development (BDD) to guide development, decrease rework, and increase flow; primary source for story detail and priorities in Iteration Planning; establishes story acceptance criteria.

Understands the scope of enabler work and collaborates with System and Solution Architect/Engineering to assist decisions and sequencing of technology enablers.

Defines and explicitly communicates the Product Goal; creates, orders, and clearly communicates Product Backlog items apart from ensuring that the Product Backlog is transparent, visible, and understood.

Defines and drives iteration goals and content via prioritized stories; builds, edits, and maintains the Team Backlog of user stories, defects, and enablers; primary responsibility for maintaining the flow of just-in-time story elaboration; accepts user stories as done, including validation the story meets acceptance criteria, has appropriate acceptance tests, and complies with the Definition of Done (DoD).

Participates in the Iteration Retrospective and the Inspect & Adapt workshop.

Applies different approaches to convince others to change their opinion or plan, and wins support from others for ideas; able to build support with peers without direct lines of reporting across a matrix organization.

Understands and works in line with the organization’s mission, operations, structure, and goals; Understands informal structures and processes of the organization; understands organization-level implications of his or her day-to-day decisions.

Qualifications

Skills

Lean Agile and SAFe Mindset - Advocates for and leads others in the concepts of the Agile Manifesto and Lean thinking in support of adopting and applying the 9 SAFe principles and practices for the organization.

Agile Systems Thinking - Embraces a holistic approach to analysis that focuses on the way that a system's constituent parts interrelate and how systems work over time and within the context of larger systems to ensure the economic success of the solution.

Lean Portfolio Management, budgets, and Economic Framework - Applies Lean and systems thinking approaches in support of strategy, investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and governance; evaluates working systems; manages Epic investments and dynamic budget adjustments to minimize overhead through funding and empowering Value Streams while maintaining financial and fit-for-use governance to minimize overhead; assesses and supports decision rules that align to the financial objectives of the Solution to guide the economic decision-making process.

Program Backlog Management and User Story Elaboration - Identifies, refines, prioritizes, and sequences backlog items using Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) to ensure the economic success of the solution; determines the details of a product feature to ensure that any unanswered questions about it are answered so that development can proceed.

Building High Performance Teams - Identifies and applies critical skills and Lean-Agile principles and practices in the creation of high-performing Agile teams to construct high-quality, well designed technical solutions.

Planning and Managing Ceremonies - Plans, schedules, and leads ceremonies that create a cadence for the team to maximize productivity, promote collaboration, maintain transparency, and inspect and adapt so the team can continuously learn and improve.

Business insight - Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals.

Customer focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.

Balances stakeholders - Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.

Global perspective - Taking a broad view when approaching issues, using a global lens.

Manages conflict - Handling conflict situations effectively, with a minimum of noise.

Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.

Education, Licenses, Certifications

College, university, or equivalent degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or related subject, or relevant equivalent experience required. SAFe® Product Owner/Agile Product Manager (POPM) certification preferred. This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

Experience

Business knowledge with knowledge and practical experience of the Lean methodology, principles and tools are preferred.

Experience working in an Agile environment is preferred.

Should have PLM Background

Preferably from Automotive Manufacturing background

Excellent understanding of Engineering domain

Must have good understanding of Windchill PLM

Should have 8-10 years of experience in PLM and Automotive sector

Ability to effectively communicate with Business teams as well as IT teams

Should be able to work with Business to capture Business requirements

Experience of developing and documenting Functional Solutions

Job SYSTEMS/INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Primary Location India-Maharashtra-Pune-India, Pune, IOC Tower A

Job Type Experienced - Exempt / Office

Recruitment Job Type Exempt - Experienced

Job Posting May 21, 2024, 4:00:29 AM

Unposting Date Jun 4, 2024, 2:29:00 PM

Organization Corporate

Role Category Hybrid - Potential for Partial Remote

Relocation Package Eligible

Req ID: 2400048L