Product Owner

ParentPay Group - India; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software product company in India seeks a detail-oriented professional focused on market understanding and product development. Responsibilities include collaborating with product managers, analyzing customer feedback, and ensuring effective teamwork in a complex environment. Ideal candidates will demonstrate ownership, accountability, and a commitment to continuous improvement. This role offers opportunities for professional growth in a dynamic tech hub.

Qualifications

• Focus on results and desired outcomes.
• Takes personal accountability for work.
• Shows curiosity and drives learning.
• Experience in financial systems, banking, accounts payable and accounts receivable.

Responsibilities

• Develop market understanding and product positioning.
• Collaborate with product manager on vision and roadmap.
• Prioritize backlog aligning with product strategy.
• Analyze customer feedback and issues.
• Work with cross-functional teams on delivery.
• Prioritize the backlog and align to product strategy.
• Assess customer feedback and investigate customer issues.
• Analyze information and make recommendations.
• Define user journeys, process mapping, use cases, etc.
• Work with cross-functional delivery teams in design, implementation and testing.
• Operate effectively within a matrix environment and facilitate alignment.
• Translate complex concepts into simple, clear terms.

Skills

Results-oriented

Ownership & Accountability

Continuous Improvement

Experience in Financial systems

Job description

Overview

ParentPay Group is Europe’s leading software product company and the UK’s largest education technology business. We are on a mission to bring next-generation innovation to positively impact the lives of millions of parents, teachers, and students every day in over 49 countries.

Application Deadline: 31 March 2026

Department: Development

Location: Pune, India

Description

ParentPay Group uses cutting-edge cloud-based technology to streamline school processes, including secure web and mobile apps that enable secure online payments for school items such as meals, trips, clubs and uniforms, improve parental engagement, simplify meal management and – through our product SIMS – collect and manage a database of student information and core school operations. Our new Pune offices are a fantastic tech hub for those looking to boost their careers in software product development. Our bright team FastTrack their career with international exposure and methods based on agile development best practices from globally renowned technology consultancies.

Responsibilities

• Develop understanding of the market segment and product positioning.
• Consistently evaluate and become the expert in the domain space.
• Understand the market and the competitive landscape.
• Collaborate with the product manager to understand the product vision and roadmap.
• Identify success criteria and translate the product vision into executable goals that can be met incrementally.
• Prioritize the backlog and align to product strategy.
• Assess customer feedback and investigate customer issues.
• Analyze information and make recommendations.
• Define user journeys, process mapping, use cases, etc.
• Work closely with stakeholders on delivery teams (developers, QA, delivery managers) in designing, implementation and testing of the solutions.
• Work effectively within cross-functional teams in a complex, matrix environment.
• Facilitate, mediate, and gain agreement between groups.
• Demonstrate clarity of thought and the ability to translate the complex into simple and consistent terms.

Qualifications / Skills

• Drives to Outcomes focuses on results and desired outcomes and how best to achieve them. Able to execute plans through to action. Persistent to complete tasks and a strong commitment to take action that moves things along to ensure delivery of objectives.
• Ownership & Accountability takes personal accountability and ownership for their work, including personal follow-through, making and defending difficult decisions and tradeoffs, removing blockers, driving collective progress.
• Continuous Improvement: advances by ongoing, incremental improvement through continuous learning, questioning the status quo and trying out creative and novel ideas. Shows curiosity and has a keen interest to drive learning for themselves and others.
• Experience in working on Financial systems, Banking, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable.