Exp- 5+yrs
Location- Bangalore (Hybrid)
JD:
As an Advanced Product Manager, Technical Product Owner (TPO), you will be responsible for translating Product Management requirements into Engineering through the use of Agile practices and common tooling. Specifically, you will author, organize and groom Themes, Epics and User Stories in Jira and collaborate with Engineering teams on co-authoring functional requirements. This includes increasing the innovation and delivery velocity of all programs while making tradeoff decisions on when technical debt is acceptable in the early incubation periods of developing proofs of concept and when minimum viable product commitments begin to emerge. The Advanced Product Manager, Technical Product Owner will be a key linkage between Business requirements and will drive the creation of scalable and reuseable products from existing ideas and help to develop new ideas based on your experience and creativity. This role is both strategic and technical in nature and requires meaningful industry experience. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: The position has responsibility for the successful realization of product requirements, managing between Product Management and Engineering in diverse solutions that will span domains such as AI/ML on edge devices and cloud, with state-of-the-art AI models and front-end application deliverables, often targeting Android platforms. The Advanced Product Manager, Technical Product Owner ensures that they work with the Product Management and Program Management in broader communications of program status and progress.
• Work closely with Product Management and Engineering to own planning, management and delivery of requirements in Agile program increments and sprint plans.
• Manage variable and changing requirements via groomed backlogs, engineering commits and quality assurance testing (unit and system).
• Manage product related communications to both internal and external associates. In some cases support customer requirements clarification and customer pilot deployments.
• Collaboratively manage and own solution technology decisions to balance alignment with wider enterprise architectural guidelines while supporting innovation achieved through new technologies.
• Participate in Agile planning, daily stand-ups, demonstrations and retrospectives with engineering teams to structure, drive and support product development and delivery.
The Advanced Product Manager, Technical Product Owner work closely with internal stakeholders throughout the
development process in negotiating design trade-offs that may be needed, while preserving the strategies and features
intended in the Product Management requirements.
Job Requirements
Preferred Education:
BS in Computer Science or related field
Master’s Degree in related technical field preferred
Preferred Work Experience (years):
5+ years’ experience, including at least 3 years as a technical product owner or leader of technical deliveries in related
discipline or technology industry.
The Technical Product Owner may have had previous job titles such as Solution Architect, Software Development Manager,
Software Architect.
Key Skills and Competencies:
• Technical in nature, thrives on complex technical challenges.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with strong ability to interact with a wide array of stakeholders: from market, product
and business-oriented staff to engineering, QA and Dev Ops.
• Strong communication skills including written, verbal and oral presentation skills as well as ability to effectively
present information and respond to questions from senior management and other managers.
• Ability to assess complex technical landscapes and create focused, integrated product plans.
• Experience of Android platform, cloud platform, data science and AI solutions is desirable.
• Multi-task and manage complex programs.
• Highly creative with ability to think strategically while focused on executing daily.
• Experience and market knowledge in assigned product vertical, category or technology preferred.
• The successful candidate will be a self-starter.
• This individual must be adaptable, persuasive, tenacious and perceptive in order to produce and execute a welldeveloped
plan, maximizing value delivered.
• Team player with experience of leading and motivating research and engineering teams to deliver on time.
• Knowledge and experience of the full software development life cycle and processes.
• Strong skills in collaboration business applications including Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence, Trello), Microsoft Office
suite and tools such as Miro, Figma.
Travel Requirements: < 10%