Job Description

Product Owner Opportunity @ MS/ESH Candidate Characteristics . Formulate strategy/approach to guide Teams\' achievement of their target outcomes (Predictability, Quality, Efficiency) through application of agile methods . Flexibility in wearing different hats such as a Servant Leader, Coach, Facilitator, Mentor, and Change agent . Provide thought leadership and aid management in designing/enabling the underlying system to support application & sustenance of agile practices and culture . Facilitate identification and removal of systemic impediments for adoption of agile methods . Familiar with a wide-range of Lean-Agile methodologies, Scaling frameworks and practices . Ability to apply the most fitting methodologies to different challenges such as combined software and system development . Strong ability to work in a team (Empathetic, adaptive, and positive mind-set) . Business-minded, performance-driven, results-oriented, conflict resolution skills Tactical/Operational: Serve as the voice of the client. Work with internal and external customers to analyze the needs and align product roadmap to strategic goals. Owns the product. Develop scope and define backlog items (/features/) that guide the Agile software development team. Solve product-related problems, make decisions, complete trade-off analysis to stay on track towards business deliverable commitments. Draft key, strategies and apply the data for the product to make business decisions. Possess a fundamental understanding of end-to-end customer experience integration and dependencies. Collaborate with stakeholders during the visioning and concept development of a product. Accountable for the created product(s), delivering in the product model and communicating the product needs with business partners. Assess value, develops cases, and prioritizes stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with a maximum value that are aligned with product strategy. Identifies and helps the client understand the business model, value and value proposition. Develop and maintain an appropriately prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation. Act as an ambassador for the product internally and externally and as the primary contact for queries related to the product. Develop appropriately detailed specifications for the product features so they are clearly understood by the development teams. A leader of the team. Represents team in front of stakeholders, clients or users. A member of the team. Work closely with product management and senior management in order to create a product that fits the company portfolio. Research and analyze market, the users, and the roadmap for the product Follow our competitors and the industry Increase an understanding of Agile practices, Lean Startup, new technologies opportunities and other new trends. Qualifications Required: BE/B.Tech Electronics/Electrical/computer science/Mechanical Minimum of 810 years of professional work experience Agile Practitioner : Minimum of 3 years of experience working in project that was diligently applying Agile/Scrum practices as a Product Owner/Agile Master/Agile Team member Knowledge and/or experience with well documented Agile, Scrum tactics/techniques: Planning poker, Burndown/burn up, CFD, retrospective formats etc Teaching & Mentoring: Ability to provide training in structured(classroom) and unstructured environments. Ability to share knowledge and skills that foster personal and professional growth of others. Facilitation: Ability to function as a neutral facilitator who can guide teams through processes that help them come to solutions and make decisions. Excellent communication skills and ability to work with all levels of the organization. Transformation: Ability to effect positive change in the teams/organization as a change catalyst Desired : Completion of Bosch Internal Agile training programs or external Agile/PO certtification Knowledge of tools like IBM ALM (jazz.net) or similar for Agile project management Knowledge of Embedded software development and Braking systems is an added advantage Knowledge of technical practices like TDD, CI, pair programming, automated testing Additional Information Experience level: 8-12 years

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