Product Owner Global

Southwest Airlines; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Southwest Airlines Technology is seeking a Product Owner to collaborate with Product Management and stakeholders to define and prioritize the team backlog, ensuring alignment with program priorities and technical integrity.

You will attend planning, backlog refinement, and ceremonies; help create user stories with acceptance criteria, review progress, and drive value through effective backlog management while partnering with teams to deliver enterprise solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related field or equivalent training.
• 2–5 years of experience in Agile/Scrum, business analysis, project management, or software development for enterprise products.
• Intermediate level experience with broad knowledge across Agile and Scrum methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Prepare backlog for PI Planning and decide team backlog items
• Serve as the customer proxy
• Build, refine, prioritize, and maintain the team backlog
• Partner in Scrum ceremonies such as iteration planning, iteration reviews, and demos
• Help create user stories and define acceptance criteria
• Review and accept user stories
• Contribute to vision and program Backlog
• Meet with stakeholders to ensure features meet expectations
• Drive iteration content by prioritizing user stories
• May perform other job duties as directed by Employee's Leaders

Skills

Decision making

Detail oriented

Technical understanding

Analytics

Risk management

Presentation skills

Change management

Agile / Scrum

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IS

Job description

Our Company Promise

We are committed to provide our Employees a stable work environment with equal opportunity for learning and personal growth. Creativity and innovation are encouraged for improving the effectiveness of Southwest Airlines. Above all, Employees will be provided the same concern, respect, and caring attitude within the organization that they are expected to share externally with every Southwest Customer.

Department

Technology

Job Description

Job Summary

• Serve as the customer proxy and responsible for working with Product Management and other stakeholders—including other product owners and other teams—to define and prioritize the Team Backlog so that the solution effectively addresses program priorities while maintaining technical integrity. Attend product management meetings, planning, and backlog/vision refinement sessions. Part of the Product Team who attends all the events.

Responsibilities

• Prepare backlog for PI Planning and decide which work items become part of the team backlog
• Serve as the customer proxy
• Build, refine, prioritize, and maintain the team backlog
• Partner in Scrum ceremonies such as iteration planning, iteration reviews, and demos
• Help create user stories and define acceptance criteria
• Review and accept user stories as complete
• Contribute to vision and program Backlog
• Meet with stakeholders to ensure features and subsequent stories meet expectations
• Drive iteration content by prioritizing user stories
• May perform other job duties as directed by Employee's Leaders

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Ability to make decisions with minimal guidance and oversight
• Ability to be organized with strong attention to detail and capable of coordinating multiple viewpoints into a single message
• Ability to understand technical issues
• Skilled in analytics and problem solving with a high attention to detail
• Ability to anticipate risks, issues and opportunities, and escape them accordingly
• Skilled in presentation, facilitation, communication, and negotiation
• Ability to be comfortable and articulate in challenging change management scenarios, knowing when to insert self and when to fade back
• Solid knowledge in Agile including the value and principles, and how they are applied in enterprise environments

Education

• Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related field and/or equivalent formal training

Experience

• Required: Intermediate-level experience, fully functioning broad knowledge in:
• Agile and Scrum software development methodologies
• Business analysis, project management or software development delivering enterprise products and solutions
• 2-5 years of relevant work-related experience

Other Qualifications

• Must meet confidentiality expectations as to confidential, proprietary and sensitive Company information
• Ability to work extended hours as needed

Southwest Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer.