Director SW Development

Nokia; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,900,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Nokia Bengaluru seeks a customer-focused Product Owner to drive the vision, strategy, and execution of the product roadmap, bridging business stakeholders, customers, and development teams to maximize business value and meet customer needs.

The ideal candidate has strong experience in Agile methodologies, requirements management, stakeholder engagement, and end-to-end product lifecycle management, and will contribute to continuous improvement of processes, releases, and product documentation

Qualifications

• Experience as Product Owner or similar in Agile environments.
• Strong requirements management and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience with product lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

• Translate business issues into innovative product solutions.
• Define product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and development teams to deliver value.
• Manage releases and maintain product documentation.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Requirements management

Stakeholder engagement

Product lifecycle management

Job description

Job Description

We are seeking a highly motivated and customer-focused Product Owner to drive the vision, strategy, and execution of our product roadmap. The Product Owner will serve as the bridge between business stakeholders, customers, and development teams, ensuring that product features deliver maximum business value and meet customer needs.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in Agile methodologies, requirements management, stakeholder engagement, and product lifecycle management.

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How You Will Contribute And What You Will Learn

Interprets critical internal or external business issues and develops innovative solutions that help to sustain competitive advantage. Defines processes and standards. Uses knowledge on how the job contributes to the corporate goals as well as knowledge of industry and competitive landscape to increase own effectiveness. Influences strategic decisions within professional area that affect the performance of the subfunction (EG a subset of a function, typically consisting of several areas with independent budgets). Solves highly complex or novel problems based on sophisticated analytical thought and complex judgment. Independently develops concepts to set the professional direction of own organisational unit. Acts as a senior subject matter expert, typically at a global or regional level, in many organisational units the most senior internal expert who serves as best practice / quality resource and is an acknowledged authority both within and outside own organisational unit. Often leads functional teams or projects with considerable resource requirements, risk, and complexity, handles day-to-day staff management issues, including resource management and allocation of work. Manages technical requirements from customers needs. Delivers SW / HW build-controlled productions releases (EG main and update releases, service packages, maintenance updates, and customer design engineering). Manages product hardware / software evolutions through the creation and release of hardware / software documentation, hardware / software change control management, supplier and customer notifications. Retains technical and design knowledge for assigned products and technologies and provides training to the lower support teams (Tier 2 and Tier 3). Applies and maintains quality standards. Participates in process and tools evolutions and improvements. Applies the SW Care process (especially emergency case handling) contributing when needed to the fastest problem restoration.

Key Skills And Experience

Impact

Impact is primarily short term and and typically functional, departmental or small single geographic in scope through management of resources. Accountable for departmenta/program goals, achievement and cost performance. Actions and errors will normally impact business, program, project, function. Marked contribution to defining the direction for new products, processes, standards or operational plans based upon business strategy.

Scope & Contribution

Individual Contributor: Independently carrying out consulting, specific functional work within a Business Unit/Geography. Assumes broad perspective. Resolves unique and highly complex problems within own discipline. Makes decisions about own and/or project work using known solutions as basis. Managerial/Supervisory: Typically second (occasionally first) level of solid line management. Effective management of resources and development/implementation of plans and processes. Interprets policies and establishes procedures. Increased awareness and influence of other functions outside of own business area. Decision making often repeated in similar manner - able to choose correct solution or modify existing solution.

Innovation

Highly independent and self directed. Develops plans, measures effectiveness. Assesses customer relationships and service levels. Can develop and implement complex and innovative concepts. Problems require searching and selecting. Anticipates problems, seeks opportunities. Models creative and innovative work methods.

Communication

Communicates with parties within and outside of own job function, which may include external customers or vendors depending upon the job function.Requires ability to influence others outside of own job area on policies, practices and procedures. Has cross-cultural knowledge and global mindset. Works to influence others to accept job functions view/practices and agree/accept new concepts, practices, and approaches. Requires influencing others outside of own job area on policies, practices and procedures, e.g. by expressing complex information in an engaging and inspiring manner.

Knowledge & Experience

Management Experience / Mastery of a specific professional discipline combining deep knowledge of theory and practice within a function. Expert in more than one area, broad perspective. Typically requires 7-10 years extensive relevant experience and/or a graduate / .