Product Owner

ParentPay Group; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

ParentPay Group in Pune, India seeks a Technical Product Owner with deep SaaS, Azure, and API-driven architecture experience to drive a 30+ application ecosystem. You’ll work closely with Product Managers, Delivery managers, developers, and QA to translate strategy into actionable user stories and iterative delivery.

You will champion value, align with business objectives, and coach Agile practices within a cross-functional team, ensuring maintainable and scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 10–12 years experience managing and evolving software products.
• Translate product vision into executable goals and plans.
• Own and prioritise product backlogs with strong user stories.
• Maximise product value with focus on customer outcomes.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and cross-functional teams.
• Excellent Agile and Lean product development experience.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies and coach best practices.

Responsibilities

• Break the product vision into executable goals and iterative milestones.
• Maximise value added to products and communicate requirements clearly.
• Translate external technical requirements into detailed user stories.
• Own and evolve the team backlog, with accurate estimates and prioritisation.
• Communicate product features to the development team for implementation.
• Collaborate across Product, Engineering, QA, Delivery and business teams.
• Identify, map and mitigate delivery risks in partnership with Delivery Manager.
• Develop understanding of customer/market needs and reflect them in the team.
• Use domain modelling to design maintainable and testable systems.
• Provide data-driven analysis to inform decisions with pros/cons and implications.

Skills

Product ownership

Agile & Lean

Backlog prioritization

User story creation

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decisions

Cross-functional leadership

Requirements gathering

Communication skills

Domain modelling

SaaS platforms experience

API-driven architectures

Tools

Azure Cloud

Job description

Role overview

We are seeking a Technical Product Owner with an understanding of SaaS platforms, Azure cloud with an opportunity to work with API-driven architectures, customer specific backend applications running, third-party integrations, data pipelines, and analytics, capable of managing a complex ecosystem of 30+ applications and driving product across business and engineering teams.

Department

Development

Employment Type

Permanent - Full Time

Location

Pune, India

Reporting To

Ankur Chourey

Description

We’re looking for a Product Owner who will champion the value provided through a product (or product components), ensuring the solution solves a defined problem, and fulfils its objectives at a feature and system level. You will work within a cross-functional team to design and define products that reflect the business and product vision, and developing a path to iteratively execute on that vision, collaborating closely with the Product Manager regarding scope, and Delivery managers, Developers, & QA to implement and test. As such you will be a good listener, storyteller and influencer with strong communication skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Working with the Product Manager, you will be responsible for understanding and breaking the vision into executable goals, driven by the value to be created, that can be achieved in an iterative manner within your team
• Maximise the value addition to the products
• Use a variety of approaches and techniques (e.g. user journeys, process mapping, use cases) to understand and communicate requirements
• Where necessary, translate external technical requirements and specifications and articulate these into detailed user stories underpinned by a sound understanding of the business objectives
• Own and evolve the team backlog, ensuring it is detailed, prioritised, well understood, up to date, properly estimated, relevant to delivery time scales. Collaborate with your team to write and manage user stories through to production
• Communicate proficiently with the development team to explain the product features that are to be implemented
• Collaborate within a cross-functional team, listening, facilitating and contributing to drive a common purpose, make decisions and achieve goals as an empowered, autonomous team
• Map and comprehend risks in delivering against goals alongside the Delivery Manager, reducing and resolving them where possible
• Develop an understanding of the relevant customer and market needs for your product, and consistently reflect these within the team
• Use domain modelling to design systems for maintainability, testability and incremental development, by understanding and describing entities and the relationships between them
• Provide data driven analysis, communicating the pros and cons, plus short- and long-term implications to make decisions in team
• Ensure that the product is compliant with all relevant regulations and standards, and managing any legal or ethical considerations relating to the product
• Continuously promote best product practises to foster new ways of working and ensure we deliver successful products

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 10-12 years experience managing and continuously developing software products.
• Ability to translate product vision into executable goals and delivery plans.
• Experience owning and prioritising product backlogs.
• Strong user story creation, refinement, and backlog management.
• Ability to maximize product value and focus on customer outcomes.
• Experience working closely with Product Managers and cross-functional teams.
• Strong experience in Agile and Lean product development.
• Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies.
• Ability to work in customer-centric, data-driven, cross-functional teams.
• Capability to coach and promote Agile/Product best practices.

• Expertise in requirements gathering and documentation.
• Experience with:
• User journeys
• Process mapping
• Use cases
• Ability to convert complex business and technical requirements into actionable user stories.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to influence decision-making and resolve conflicting viewpoints.
• Strong facilitation and collaboration skills.
• Ability to explain technical concepts to both business and engineering stakeholders.
• Data-driven mindset.
• Ability to leverage analytics and insights to guide product decisions.
• Experience presenting commercial and operational data clearly.
• Capability to assess short and long-term impacts of decisions.

• Understanding of SaaS platforms.
• Familiarity with:
• API-driven architectures
• Third-party integrations
• Backend applications
• Data pipelines
• Analytics solutions
• Ability to work effectively with engineering teams.
• System/domain modeling skills.
• Understanding of system maintainability, testability, and incremental delivery.
• Strong collaboration across Product, Engineering, QA, Delivery, and business teams.
• Ability to identify, manage, and mitigate delivery risks.
• Customer-centric mindset.
• Focus on commercial objectives and business outcomes.