Product Owner

Quess IT Solutions; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

MNC product based company

Job summary

Quess IT Solutions in Bengaluru seeks an Associate Product Owner to bridge business needs and technology solutions. You will work with cross-functional teams to define product requirements, prioritize features, and ensure delivery of business objectives.

The role emphasizes Agile/Scrum practices, backlog management, user story creation, UAT coordination, and strong stakeholder communication. Immediate joiners preferred; hybrid work setup available in Bangalore.

Qualifications

• Experience as Associate Product Owner or Product Owner
• Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies
• Ability to write user stories and acceptance criteria
• Experience with UAT and release support
• Excellent stakeholder communication and collaboration

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritize the product backlog aligned with business goals.
• Translate business requirements into clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Refine backlog items and ensure backlog readiness for sprint planning.
• Coordinate with Scrum Masters, Developers, QA, and stakeholders for timely delivery.

Skills

Backlog management

User stories

Agile/Scrum

Stakeholder management

UAT coordination

Communication

Analytical skills

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Azure DevOps

Job description

Role & responsibilities

The Associate Product Owner supports the Product Owner in defining, developing, releasing, and continuously improving a practice-based product comprising methods, processes, digital tools, templates, guidance, learning content, and adoption mechanisms. The role should help ensure that: The practice solves a genuine user or business problem. The digital tool supports the intended workflow. Digital content explains the practice clearly. Releases are prioritized according to value and readiness. Users progressively move from awareness to understanding, trial, adoption, and sustained application. Feedback and usage data are converted into product improvements. The Product Owner remains accountable for product value and effective backlog management, including communicating the Product Goal, creating and ordering backlog items, and ensuring that the backlog is transparent and understood. Supporting work may be delegated to an Associate Product Owner, but accountability stays with the Product Owner.

Skill Set Required

Product and Practice Management Understand the practice vision, users, value and expected outcomes; support the product roadmap, release scope and alignment between the practice, tool and content. Backlog and Requirements Management Gather needs, map workflows and business rules, write user stories and enablers, define measurable acceptance criteria, refine backlog items and maintain traceability. Digital Tool Delivery Work effectively with development and UX teams; review prototypes, clarify functionality, coordinate demonstrations, support defect resolution, user acceptance testing and release readiness. Digital Content and Learning Plan and coordinate awareness messages, quick guides, FAQs, videos, webinars, templates, examples and role-based learning content; ensure content remains consistent with the released practice and tool. Change and Progressive Adoption Segment audiences and guide users through awareness, understanding, trial, adoption and reinforcement; support pilots, communications, training, champion networks and resistance management. Stakeholder Engagement Facilitate workshops, interviews and reviews; communicate complex practices simply; manage expectations and coordinate subject-matter experts, users, developers, quality teams and leaders. Quality and Acceptance Apply the hierarchy Quality Objective Quality Task Acceptance Criteria; verify completeness, evidence, usability and alignment across the practice, digital tool and adoption package. Metrics and Continuous Improvement Define adoption and outcome indicators, analyse tool usage and feedback, identify improvement opportunities and recommend backlog priorities based on value, risk and evidence.

Job Summary

We are looking for a highly motivated Associate Product Owner / Product Owner to bridge business needs and technology solutions. The ideal candidate should have strong experience in Agile methodologies, backlog management, user story creation, UAT coordination, and stakeholder management. The candidate will work closely with cross-functional teams to define product requirements, prioritize features, and ensure successful delivery of business objectives.Key Responsibilities

• Own, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog aligned with business goals.
• Translate business requirements into clear and actionable user stories.
• Refine backlog items and define acceptance criteria.
• Ensure backlog readiness for sprint planning activities.

Agile Delivery

• Work closely with Scrum Masters, Developers, QA Teams, and Business Stakeholders.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives within Agile teams.
• Drive timely delivery of product features and enhancements.

Requirement Gathering & User Stories

• Conduct workshops and requirement-gathering sessions with stakeholders.
• Document functional and non-functional requirements.
• Create detailed user stories, epics, and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure requirements are clearly understood by development and testing teams.

Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate with business leaders, product managers, and technical teams.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and communicate project progress effectively.
• Facilitate discussions to resolve requirement ambiguities and competing priorities.
• Act as the primary liaison between business and delivery teams.

UAT & Release Support

• Coordinate and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Prepare test scenarios and assist business users during testing cycles.
• Validate delivered functionality against business requirements.
• Support release planning and post-production validation activities.

Required Skills

• Experience as Associate Product Owner, Product Owner, Business Analyst, or Product Analyst.
• Strong knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Hands-on experience with Product Backlog Management.
• Expertise in writing User Stories, Epics, Acceptance Criteria.
• Experience managing UAT activities.
• Strong Stakeholder Management and Communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize competing business requirements.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.
• Exposure to Product Lifecycle Management.
• Knowledge of Business Process Modeling.
• Experience working in digital transformation or product-based environments.
• CSPO, PSPO, SAFe PO/PM, or Agile certifications are advantageous.

Preferred candidate profile

Only Bangalore Candidates

Immediate Joiners preferred or Serving NP

Perks and benefits

• Hybrid
• MNC Product Based