Product Owner

Job Purpose:

This role is responsible for translating the strategic roadmap for a product into tactical activities, that are then executed to fulfill the product vision.

Job Responsibilities:

Essential Functions:

• Define requirements for features based on the roadmap.
• Create actionable user stories for the development team, working with UI/UX teams to visualize features and solutions.
• Groom and prioritize the work in the backlog.
• Attend all agile meetings – scrum, grooming, sprint planning and retrospectives and answer developer’s questions as the customer/user representative.
• Accept the completed user stories to make sure the work fulfills the criteria.
• Work with other Product Owners to ensure dependencies are prioritized appropriately across teams.
• Work directly with Product Management and business owners to identify product needs for roadmap consideration.
• Analyze product issues and defects reported by end users and support teams.
• Work with the Product Manager/Product Director on release planning and supporting processes, including training and communication to internal stakeholders as needed.
• Assist with user acceptance testing or beta testing with customers for specific features as needed.
• Demonstrate Cendyn products to various internal teams as needed.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in the relevant product domains.

Non-Essential Functions:

• Provide cover for Product Manager or Product Director during their absence.

Requirements:

Required Education and Experience:

• 1+ years of relevant Business Analyst or Product Coordinator experience in a product development environment.
• Experience with Agile backlog management tools, such as Target Process (preferred), Confluence, Jira or VersionOne.
• Excellent Organizational, time management and prioritization skills.
• Experience collaborating with UX resources to complete wire-frames/mock-ups with tools such as Visio, Balsamiq, etc.
• Experience writing business requirement documents.
• Experience in Quality assurance testing.

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field or a combination of education and experience.
• Usability testing experience preferred.

Expected Competencies:

1. Exceptional communication skills.
2. Proven writing skills including the ability to write concisely and clearly for different audiences.

Work Timings:

Monday through Friday from 12 PM to 9 PM IST to provide healthy overlap between India team and US team and supporting both to ensure adequate collaboration. This role will be working in Hybrid Mode and will require at least 2 days’ work from office at Hyderabad. Occasional evening and weekend work may be expected in case of job-related emergencies or client needs.

EEO Statement:

Cendyn provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Cendyn complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Cendyn expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Cendyn’s employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.