Associate Principal Consultant, Product Owner

Summary

Join Nagarro, a rapidly scaling Digital Product Engineering company, as a Product Owner/Manager with 11+ years of experience. You will be responsible for aligning stakeholders and development teams, conducting client needs assessments, gathering business requirements, designing wireframes, and conducting UAT. The role requires experience with Agile methodologies, RFPs, user stories, and various requirement gathering techniques. You will also manage product backlogs, plan releases, and collaborate with development teams. A consulting mindset and experience in creating solutions for customer pitches and thought leadership are essential. A Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related field is required.

Requirements

• Total Experience -11+ years
• Strong working experience in product ownership or product management
• Strong understanding of market research, competitor analysis, and product lifecycle management
• Experience with Agile Methodology, RFPs, User story, User Journey, Requirement Elicitation, Requirement gathering, Wireframing, Prototyping
• Create new solutions, create solutions for Customer pitches, write white paper and blogs, thought leadership - Create arrowheads
• Should have experience in understanding and documenting requirements for complex and highly technical development projects
• Experience in developing business cases, analyzing business processes, and understanding why change is required in the business
• Experience in Investigating business problems and opportunities using root cause analysis -Building relationships with all key stakeholders
• Understand and negotiate needs and expectations of multiple stakeholders -Stay current with customer needs and strategies
• Identifying and then prioritizing technical and functional requirements
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills
• Experience in developing and conducting peer reviews (user stories grooming sessions) of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted
• Experience in translating conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project teams in the form of User Stories
• Works with stakeholders and project team to prioritize collected requirements
• Experience in conducting interviews to gather customer requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field

Responsibilities

• Aligning stakeholders and development teams around common measurable product goals
• Conducting client and end-user needs assessment and analyzing tasks using appropriate techniques
• Understanding and gathering business requirements of the product at any and all stages of the product cycle
• Designing both high-level and detailed information wireframes, as needed, to illustrate the content organization, processes, and functionality and creating scope documents and user stories
• Conducting UAT and assisting with usability test development, administration, evaluation, and reporting
• Running product discovery sessions to build a product backlog, envision and estimate the product, and plan incremental releases
• Managing updates to information architecture documents including site maps, user scenarios, use cases, wireframes, content matrices, flow diagrams, and detailed functional requirements
• Following and running Agile ceremonies (Release planning, Sprint planning/ Retro / Review, etc.) and principles throughout the product development phases
• Supporting research and development of the latest user-centered methods and techniques and using them as a foundation for all decisions and deliverables
• Preparing whitepapers about Nagarro's experiences in specific industry domains
• Ensuring on-time release by managing risk and planning the product construction sprint by sprint
• Collaborating with the development team on an ongoing basis, guiding them and leading them in the right direction
• Identifying opportunities in the current engagement to cross-sell or up-sell Nagarro's offerings
• Showcasing a consulting mindset by acting as a solution provider rather than an order taker
• Identifying project/product stakeholders at an early stage and working with them to ensure their expectations are managed effectively in sync with the benefits defined in the business case