Product Owner

Hackajob; Pune District, Mumbai, Bengaluru; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Hackajob seeks a Software Product Owner to champion customer experience and translate user needs into actionable software requirements. You will collaborate with engineering, testing, and product teams to refine the backlog and deliver value across releases, ensuring alignment with the product roadmap and stakeholder expectations.

You will communicate clearly, advocate for users, and drive delivery velocity while maintaining quality. Some travel up to 10% may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, electronics, computer science or software development, or marketing degree with product management emphasis.
• 3–7 years in a software product owner role or equivalent.
• Willingness to travel up to 10%.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Experience with Agile development preferred.

Responsibilities

• Be an advocate for the customer to improve the user experience design.
• Work with engineering development and test teams to refine and implement functional requirements.
• Support global product launches and release activities.
• Communicate product management activities to all levels of the organization as the product owner.
• Reference product roadmap to prioritize, socialize and implement software enhancements with development and test teams.
• Maintain a customer-focused mindset for delivering a product with great customer experience.
• Look for ways to increase team velocity by eliminating waste and accelerating delivery timelines.
• Help build and maintain high team morale.
• Partner with the Product Manager to ensure alignment with requirements and priorities.
• Lead small to medium groups of internal stakeholders to meet business objectives.

Skills

Product ownership

Communication

Presentation skills

Agile experience

Education

Engineering/CS degree

Marketing PM degree

Tools

MS Office

Jama

Job description

Description

AS A SOFTWARE PRODUCT OWNER, YOU WILL:

• Be an advocate for the customer to improve the user experience design
• Work directly with our software engineering development and test teams to refine and implement functional requirements
• Support global product launches and release activities
• Communicate product management activities to all levels of the organization as the product owner
• Reference product roadmap to prioritize, socialize and implement software enhancement with software development and test teams
• Customer-focused mindset for delivering a product that provides a great customer experience
• Constantly look for ways to increase the team's velocity/productivity by eliminating waste and identifying creative ways to accelerate delivery timelines
• Help build and maintain high team morale
• Partner with the Product Manager to ensure alignment with requirements and priorities
• Facilitation skills ability to lead small to medium groups of internal stakeholders towards desired outcomes to meet business objectives

WHO YOU ARE:

You identify and seize new opportunities. You build and deliver solutions that exceed customer expectations. You engage in collaborative planning and development. You are a great communicator.

REQUIRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Electronics, Computer Science or Software Development or a Marketing degree with product management emphasis or equivalent work experience.
• 3 to 7 years’ experience in a software product owner role or equivalent
• Ability to travel up to 10%
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office tools such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint

PREFERRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

• Experience with Agile development methodologies

Familiarity with Requirements Management Software (e.g. Jama) and development task management