Principal, Product Owner

Schneider Electric; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 4,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Schneider Electric Bengaluru is seeking a Senior Product Owner to own the offer lifecycle, define backlog, and align with squad and league priorities. You will gather customer needs, build value propositions, and drive agile governance.

You will lead sprint planning, manage roadmaps, coordinate with marketing, and ensure delivery across hardware, software, and embedded components, including switchgear expertise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and minimum 10 years of product or project development experience in Waterfall (PMP) / Agile or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Experience presenting to Customers & Leaders, and experience in saying 'No' when required.
• Experience in successfully building and leading teams in a matrix environment.
• Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles.
• Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills.
• Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e. Scrum, Kanban), an in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles would be an advantage.
• Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams.
• Prior Experience in Embedded Product development which includes Hardware, ElectroMechanical, Firmware, Industrialization, etc.
• Domain knowledge in switchgear /circuit breaker.

Responsibilities

• Own Offer lifecycle management, manage squad portfolio roadmap (including software).
• Spend time with customers, identify value drivers with stakeholders.
• Gather and analyze customer needs and define new offer value propositions.
• Build and own the business case and follow agile governance for approvals.
• Create, prioritize & communicate backlog, release map & roadmap with squad members.
• Define sprint strategy and achievement criteria; guide the squad toward realistic objectives.
• Support the squad to deliver on sprints and resolve obstacles; balance budget, schedule, and cost.
• Create a collaborative environment; lead, motivate and provide transparency to stakeholders.
• Lead the offer requirement trade-offs and synchronize with companion squads.

Skills

Communication skills

Facilitation

Negotiation

Coaching

Customer presentation experience

Matrix leadership

Agile mindset

Planning & problem solving

Embedded product development

Switchgear knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Product Owners are key positions in a global organization, delivering value to the business and customers while maintaining a clear view on what the customer needs and what needs to get done. Product Owners are accountable to create the right backlog prioritization in line with the squad / league vision / priorities.

Own Offer lifecycle management, manage squad portfolio roadmap (including software)

• Spend time with customers, leverage the right stakeholders to identify value drivers
• Understand customer values, application, competitive environment, market trends, go to market and anticipate evolutions
• Gather and analyze customer’s needs by meeting customers and collaborating regularly with business stakeholders
• Define and validate the new offer value propositions (UVP, business models, go to market)
• Understand technical trends to identify valuable innovations in the product environment
• Propose value base pricing recommendations (e.g.: GRT, AMSP, GM(%))
• Work towards O2, long tail

Build and own the business case (new offer evolutions) and following agile governance to get the apporval

• Experience in building tool based ( Webonyx) business case with right market inputs and inputs from various functions incl.quality, Indus, Engg, Finance.
• Prepare the launch activities of the offer: Liaise with marketing / marcom for content and assigned commercial leaders for deployment

Create, prioritize & communicate with Squad members the Squad backlog, release map & roadmap.

• Challenge and evaluate requests (from business, quality,...)
• Periodically review critical quality issues and associated mitigation plans
• Build and prioritize the product backlog
• Communicate backlog refinement
• Define, update and validate the offer/marketing requirement (in sync with companion Squads and Leagues guidelines / strategy) within backlog product prioritization
• Build the releases plan and global roadmap according to technology, feasibility, budget, resources, TTM
• Communicate the product roadmap to all stakeholders
• Periodically review customers demo feedback to assess new needs
• Periodically review with internal stakeholders (including management agreement)
• Lead the offer requirement trade-offs

Define with Squad members the sprint strategy and achievement criteria. Take accountability in sharing outcomes with stakeholders:

• Organize iterative deliverables for each sprint based on release objectives
• Ensure team understands and refines backlog items before committing to them
• Ensure sprint objectives contribute to value for customer (backlog) and product/process robustness
• Define and update achievement criteria
• Consider retro session outcomes in the iterative sprint definition
• Guide the Squad to set-up and re-prioritize realistic but ambitious enough sprint objectives : squad velocity

Support the Squad to deliver on sprints & rendezvous, acting as obstacle troubleshooter :- Be the voice of the customer for the squad questions

• Support the squad on all obstacles (including capacity issues)
• Periodic analysis of the product cost to deliver the right level of product cost
• Define the best trade-offs between all parameters (e.g. : Squad budget, schedule, product cost and business stake, quality, time to market, innovation)
• Ensure product/process robustness (according to major rendezvous)
• Review periodically main acceptance criteria with the Squad.
• Synchronize with companion Squads

Create a conducive and collaborative environment through effective leadership :

• Organize, lead, challenge and motivate the Squad
• Be the voice of the Squad in case of trade offs and success needs with stakeholders outside of the Squad
• Provide transparency to key stakeholders
• Be part of the Agile rendezvous
• Celebrate team's success

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and minimum 10 years of product or project development experience in Waterfall (PMP) / Agile or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Experience presenting to Customers & Leaders, and experience in saying 'No' when required
• Experience in successfully building and leading teams in a matrix environment.
• Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles
• Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
• Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e. Scrum, Kanban), an in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles would be an advantage
• Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams
• Prior Experience in Embedded Product development which includes Hardware , ElectroMechanical , Firmware , Industrialization , etc.,
• Domain knowledge in switchgear /circuit breaker.

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