Product Owner - Agile

The Standard India; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Annual incentive bonus

Paid time off

Career development

Job summary

The Standard India in Bengaluru is seeking an experienced Agile Product Owner - Delivery to act as the primary customer proxy for engineering teams and translate business requirements into prioritized backlogs, clear user stories, and executable delivery plans.

This role partners with Intake Product Owners, Analysts, Engineers, Architects, and Delivery Managers to deliver automation and AI-enabled solutions while balancing priorities, dependencies, and risks.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressively increasing responsibility in Agile delivery, product ownership, enterprise technology delivery, automation delivery, or transformation programs.
• Expert understanding Agile delivery, product execution, automation delivery frameworks, governance practices, and enterprise change management.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain a healthy product backlog aligned to approved business outcomes, portfolio priorities, and delivery commitments.
• Translate approved business requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria, release plans, and prioritized work packages.
• Lead backlog refinement, iteration planning, sprint reviews, release planning, and stakeholder demonstrations.
• Collaborate with Business System Analysts to ensure requirements, business rules, processes, controls, and acceptance criteria are delivery ready.
• Partner with Engineering, Architecture, and Delivery leadership to balance feature delivery, technical debt, platform sustainability, and operational readiness.
• Drive scope management, dependency coordination, risk mitigation, and delivery forecasting across automation initiatives.
• Accept completed work, ensuring solutions meet functional, operational, quality, security, and governance requirements.
• Monitor delivery progress, identify obstacles, elevate risks, and communicate status to business and technology stakeholders.
• Facilitate business readiness activities including UAT coordination, deployment planning, change management, stakeholder readiness, and production adoption.
• Follow IPA CoE delivery standards, governance expectations, security controls, Responsible AI guardrails, and enterprise delivery practices.
• Measure and communicate delivery outcomes, operational performance, value realization, and continuous improvement opportunities.
• Contribute to reusable delivery practices, backlog management standards, estimation approaches, and Agile maturity across the SGS delivery organization.

Skills

Agile delivery

Product execution

Automation delivery

Governance practices

Enterprise change management

Leads multi-initiatives

Balances strategic objectives

Guides delivery methodologies

Education

B.Tech / BE in CS/IT or SWE (MIS pref.)

Job description

The next part of your journey is right around the corner — with Standard India

A genuine desire to make a difference in the lives of others is the foundation for everything we do. With a customer-first mindset and an intentional focus on building strong teams across the nation, we’ve been able to uphold our legacy of financial stability while investing in new, innovative technologies that support the needs of our customers. Our high-performance culture, focused on operational excellence, thrives thanks to remarkable people united by compassion and a customer-first commitment. Are you ready to make a difference?

Job Summary

Agile Product Owner - Delivery serve as the primary customer proxy for engineering teams and are accountable for translating approved business requirements into prioritized backlogs, clear user stories, and executable delivery plans. They balance business priorities, technical dependencies, delivery risks, governance requirements, and capacity constraints to ensure successful implementation of automation and AI-enabled solutions.

This role partners closely with Intake Product Owners, Business System Analysts, Software Engineers, Solution Architects, Scrum Masters, Delivery Managers, Run/Support teams, governance stakeholders, and business leaders to deliver automation solutions that meet business commitments and operational expectations.

The Agile Product Owner - Delivery extends traditional Agile product ownership with automation-specific capabilities including orchestration delivery, RPA implementation oversight, Communication Mining enablement, agentic automation delivery coordination, Intelligent Document Processing adoption, technology roadmap execution, operational readiness planning, and value realization monitoring.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and maintain a healthy product backlog aligned to approved business outcomes, portfolio priorities, and delivery commitments.
• Translate approved business requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria, release plans, and prioritized work packages.
• Lead backlog refinement, iteration planning, sprint reviews, release planning, and stakeholder demonstrations.
• Collaborate with Business System Analysts to ensure requirements, business rules, processes, controls, and acceptance criteria are delivery ready.
• Partner with Engineering, Architecture, and Delivery leadership to balance feature delivery, technical debt, platform sustainability, and operational readiness.
• Drive scope management, dependency coordination, risk mitigation, and delivery forecasting across automation initiatives.
• Accept completed work, ensuring solutions meet functional, operational, quality, security, and governance requirements.
• Monitor delivery progress, identify obstacles, elevate risks, and communicate status to business and technology stakeholders.
• Facilitate business readiness activities including UAT coordination, deployment planning, change management, stakeholder readiness, and production adoption.
• Follow IPA CoE delivery standards, governance expectations, security controls, Responsible AI guardrails, and enterprise delivery practices.
• Measure and communicate delivery outcomes, operational performance, value realization, and continuous improvement opportunities.
• Contribute to reusable delivery practices, backlog management standards, estimation approaches, and Agile maturity across the SGS delivery organization.

Ability to work on-site in Bengaluru, India is a requirement of the role.

Mode of Working: This role follows a hybrid work model, with a primary base in Bengaluru. While on-site presence is essential for key engagements, flexibility is offered for remote work based on business needs and team alignment.

Skills and Background You’ll Need

Education: B.Tech / B.E. in Computer Science, IT, or Software Engineering (preferably with MIS specialization)

Experience: Typically 8+ years of progressively increasing responsibility in Agile delivery, product ownership, enterprise technology delivery, automation delivery, or transformation programs

• Expert understanding Agile delivery, product execution, automation delivery frameworks, governance practices, and enterprise change management.
• Leads delivery across multiple initiatives, teams, or value streams.
• Balances strategic business objectives, portfolio priorities, delivery capacity, and technology constraints.
• Guides delivery methodologies and continuous improvement practices across teams.

Key Behaviors of a Successful Candidate

• Winning Together: Actively engages colleagues to achieve shared outcomes by developing trust, inviting diverse perspectives and pushing them to bring the best ideas forward.
• Customer Focus: Understands and anticipates both internal and external customer needs and develops customer-inspired solutions that exceed expectations.
• Adaptability: Sees possibilities in changing circumstances, accepts and understands change and alters behavior as necessary.

Why Join Standard India?

• A rich benefits package that supports your health, well-being, and financial goals
• An annual incentive bonus plan tied to both individual and organizational performance
• Paid time off including earned leave, sick/casual leave, and public holidays, in accordance with the company’s leave policy
• A supportive, responsive management approach that empowers you to grow
• Opportunities for career advancement through learning, coaching, and leadership enablement
• A culture where your voice matters - your ideas shape our future, and we win as one
• Purpose-driven work that makes a difference for our customers, communities, and each other

In addition to a competitive salary, our employee-focused benefits are designed to support work-life balance, personal growth, and long-term impact.

Eligibility to participate in an incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program and plan. Any award depends on a variety of factors including individual and organizational performance.

StanCorp Global Services India Private Limited is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, colour, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, caste, HIV status or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws of India.