Senior Associate Product Manager chez Principal Global Services

Position Title: Product Owner (T3)

Job Code: Product Owner (T3)

Last Updated Date

Job Business Unit: PGS – RIS / SBD

1       Responsible for backlog refinement and preparation of planned releases which includes backlog grooming, prioritizing the team’s backlog, and ensuring the backlog represents priorities of the business are adequately represented. Contribute to creating product/program/project vision, roadmap, and content presentations.

25 %

2       Responsible for validating the story meets acceptance criteria and will achieve the desired customer outcome.

15 %

3       Reviews and re-prioritizes backlog as part of preparatory work for sprint planning, including the coordination of content dependencies with other product owners. During the planning meeting, acts as a source for user story detail and priorities, and has the responsibility to accept the final sprint plan.

15 %

4       When planning, is involved with story definition, providing clarification to assist team with story estimates, sprint loading, story sequencing, and drafting the team's specific objectives.

15 %

5       With input from the product manager and other stakeholders, has the primary responsibility to build, refine, and maintain team backlog. Backlog consists mostly of user stories, but also includes defects, refactors, and infrastructure work. Backlog items are prioritized on user value, time, and other team dependencies which are determined in release planning.

20 %

6       Has significant role in communicating and gathering feedback from customers/ users on delivered work and sharing the feedback with the team, and reviewing/accepting stories. Also participates in team retrospective when appropriate to help team as they work on continuous improvement.

5 %

7       Perform other job-related duties or special projects as required.

5 %

Mid-level experience of working in FS domain

Working as Business Analyst is an added advantage

Understanding of role of PO in agile environment

Deep understanding of Life / Retirement domain

Good grasp of end to end process flow of Life / Retirement Domain

Understanding of Product Management Concepts

Experience in backlog grooming / prioritization

Should have worked in agile teams at scrum level and involvement in scrum planning

Working in agile environment and collaborating closely with Business and Scrum Team.

Exposure to Business and IT stakeholder Management