Product Owner

WTW group; Kolkata; On-site; INR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

WTW group is seeking a Product Owner to drive intake, prioritization and delivery across design, engineering, data and operations. You will translate business needs into PRDs and user stories, maintain a prioritized backlog, and guide discovery decisions with clear value tradeoffs.

You will partner with stakeholders and executive sponsors to define success metrics, acceptance criteria, and go-to-market plans, ensuring measurable outcomes from discovery through launch.

Qualifications

• Experience writing requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria, and managing a prioritized backlog.
• Ability to evaluate business cases and quantify value using estimates when data is unavailable.
• Strong written and verbal communication with executive stakeholders and agile teams.

Responsibilities

• Review intake requests for value, impact, and technology dependency to decide discovery.
• Maintain a prioritized backlog and communicate prioritization decisions and tradeoffs.
• Partner with design, engineering, data and operations across discovery, build, and launch.
• Lead backlog refinement and sprint planning; clarify intent and priority for teams.
• Coordinate launch, adoption, training and support readiness with partners.
• Track outcomes against intake success metrics and report results to sponsors.

Skills

Product ownership

Agile

Backlog management

Requirements writing

User stories

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Graduate

Job description

Description

Responsiblities:

Intake and Prioritization

• Review intake requests, including change requested, business need, driving event, client impact, and technology dependency.

• Assess business value using the Business Value Rating scale and expected business impact, and recommend whether a request proceeds to discovery.

• Maintain a prioritized backlog and communicate prioritization decisions and tradeoffs to stakeholders.

Requirements and PRDs

• Create and maintain PRDs, from the initial high-level version through detailed requirements, scope, and acceptance criteria.

• Translate business needs into user stories, requirements, and business rules without prescribing a solution.

• Define goals, non-goals, success metrics, and measurement plans with the business sponsor.

Delivery and Collaboration

• Partner with design, engineering, data, and operations teams throughout discovery, build, and launch.

• Lead backlog refinement and sprint planning; answer team questions on intent and priority.

• Coordinate launch, adoption, training, and support readiness with business and technology partners.

• Track delivered outcomes against intake success metrics and report results to sponsors.

Qualifications

• Graduate.
• 3-5 years of experience in product ownership, product management, business analysis, or a related role.
• Experience writing requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria, and managing a prioritized backlog.
• Ability to evaluate business cases and quantify value using estimates when exact data is unavailable.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including with executive stakeholders; experience in Agile teams.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• We’re committed to equal employment opportunity and provide application, interview and workplace adjustments and accommodations to all applicants. If you foresee any barriers, from the application process through to joining WTW, please email [e-mail].