Product Owner | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, INDIA

Purchasing Power, LLC; Chennai; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Purchasing Power, a PROG Holdings company, is seeking a Product Owner to join our Technology team in Chennai, India. You will represent the customer, manage the backlog, and work with a Scrum team to enhance ecommerce and payments capabilities.

You will gather requirements, write user stories, prioritize features, and communicate progress to stakeholders, while applying agile best practices and CSPO principles to deliver value.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in MIS, CS, Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years as Product Owner in Agile environments.
• Experience in ecommerce, payments, finance; UI design and 3rd-party integrations.
• CSPO certification preferred; strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate enterprise enhancement intake with business stakeholders.
• Gather requirements from product manager, stakeholders, and customers.
• Oversee design, story writing, and development of features.
• Manage backlog priorities for the scrum team; JIRA preferred.
• Own backlog grooming to ensure mutual understanding of needs.
• Plan and prepare user stories for grooming sessions.
• Communicate impediments to business owners and leadership.
• Make data-driven decisions based on success criteria.
• Verify stories and acceptance for new features and defects.
• Provide release notes and product demonstrations.

Skills

Agile Scrum

JIRA expertise

Stakeholder communication

Data-driven decisions

Education

Bachelor’s degree in MIS/CS/Engineering

Tools

CRM

Marketing Automation

Analytics Systems

JIRA

Job description

Purchasing Power is a leading employee purchase program that helps people buy the products and services they need through the convenience of payroll deduction. As part of PROG Holdings (NYSE: PRG), a FinTech holding company with more than 20 years of experience, we’re focused on building simple, responsible financial solutions that put people first. PROG Holdings’ portfolio includes Progressive Leasing, a market leader in lease‑to‑own solutions, Purchasing Power, and Four, a Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) platform — all united by a commitment to innovation, access, and meaningful impact.

Position: Product Owner

Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Who Are We: Purchasing Power (corp.purchasingpower.com)

We are an Atlanta-based voluntary benefit company offering an industry-leading employee purchase program for brand-name consumer products, online education services and travel offerings through convenient payroll deduction, helping employees achieve financial flexibility.

The Opportunity: We are seeking a Product Owner to join our Technology team in Chennai, India. As a Product Owner at Purchasing Power, you represent the customer and create a shared understanding of the problem and solution by providing one voice to the development team. This role requires strong analytical and organizational skills, as well as the ability to find innovative solutions to various challenges. Our Product Management team consists of cross-functional product managers and product owners that support our E-commerce, Operations, and Financial business areas. Product Owners in this organization sit with the Scrum team at the intersection of the business and technology and are focused on enhancing existing products, features, and capabilities in our ecosystem. In this role as Product Owner, you will maintain the product backlog of system enhancements. Your stakeholders will vary and include business owners and subject matter experts across the enterprise. You will work with the Scrum team and product management organization on execution of the enhancement backlog in alignment with business needs.

What You Will Do

• Facilitate the enterprise enhancement intake process, communicating directly with business stakeholders.
• Gather requirements from product manager, internal stakeholders, and customers
• Oversee all stages of product creation including design, story writing, and development
• Manages the product backlog priorities for the scrum team; JIRA is preferred.
• Owns backlog grooming with the scrum team to ensure there’s a mutual understanding of the needs.
• Planning and preparing user stories for grooming sessions.
• Ability to communicate impediments to business owners and product leadership.
• Data centric decision maker based on success criteria.
• Story verification and acceptance for new features, enhancements & defects.
• Provide release notes and demonstrations with product releases.

The Experience You Will Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or similar relevant fields may be considered.
• 5+ years of relevant Product Owner experience in an Agile environment that demonstrates the ability to lead a scrum team, build relationships, and communicate effectively.
• Works well in team environments (offshore/onshore model)
• Experience in designing in-house software.
• Experience working on projects in areas such as ecommerce, payments, finance,
• UI design and 3rd party integrations.
• Strong communication skills - including ability to listen to the needs of others and comprehend complex matters, articulate issues in a clear and concise manner, and present effectively in both oral and written presentations to technology and business stakeholders.
• Strong system and data flow knowledge. Ability to learn and adapt to new product flows and software technologies.
• Team-oriented approach with well-developed sense of urgency and follow through.
• Strong work ethic, including the ability to work independently and handle multiple priorities.
• In-depth knowledge of scrum and agile software development principles.
• Agile scrum CSPO certification preferred.
• Candidate must demonstrate proficiency in MarTech tools such as CRM platforms, marketing automation, and analytics systems
• Good to have experience in Customer Loyalty Programs

What We Stand For

• We act with intensity, urgency and a passion for supporting our customers and growing our business. We strive for excellence.
• We hold ourselves accountable and expect it of each other. We attack problems with a positive “can do” attitude. We do what we say we’ll do.
• We deliver as one team, working together with integrity, respect, trust, transparency, and fun. We are better because we work here.
• We believe our unique diversity and authenticity makes us a better company, allows us to be our best selves and is a competitive advantage.
• We exhibit innate curiosity and creativity to innovate and reimagine how things can be done. We ask, is there a better way

Purchasing Power welcomes and encourages diversity in the workplace. We do not discriminate in any aspect of employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, age, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local employment discrimination laws where Purchasing Power does business.