Senior Product Owner II

Schneider Electric; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Schneider Electric is seeking a Product Owner to lead features from concept through end-of-life in Bengaluru. You will shape roadmaps and ensure the team delivers innovative LV busways solutions that meet business and quality goals on time.

The role requires deep market and product knowledge of LV distribution portfolios and strong collaboration with architects, PMs, and development teams. MBA is a plus and prior experience with major competitors is beneficial.

Qualifications

• BE/BTech/ME/MTech in relevant field (Mechanical/Electrical).
• MBA preferred.
• 8–10 years of LV distribution portfolio and product development experience.
• Strong knowledge of LV busways/equipment/systems and competition.

Responsibilities

• Own product features from concept to end-of-life.
• Visualize roadmaps and drive innovative tasks for the team.
• Collaborate with development to ensure vision is understood and delivery is timely.
• Coordinate with architects, PMs, and dev teams to meet goals.

Skills

Product ownership

Roadmap visualization

Agile product development

User stories & backlog

Education

BE/BTech/ME/MTech (Mechanical/Electrical)

MBA (preferred)

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Product Owner responsible for product features from concept to End-of-life.
• Roadmap visualization and bringing innovative solutions and tasks for the team.
• Work with development team to ensure they understand the vision and are motivated to deliver innovative solutions with appropriate sense of urgency.
• Work with architects, product managers, and development teams to ensure business, quality, and functional goals are met on time.
• Understand engineering and business sides of product development and represent end user’s needs.
• Develop and maintain a prioritized backlog of user stories to maximize business value.
• Collaborate with product architect(s) and product managers to translate business requirements into user stories.
• Work with scrum master and technical leads to estimate user stories, decompose them into tasks, and determine scope and priorities for sprints.
• Act as an ambassador for the product internally and externally.

Business Management & Market Intelligence

• Align with countries in Europe Hub to boost and drive Busway offers; requires knowledge of IEC standards and Busway construction and functional aspects.
• Align with league marketing to build Conventional Busway roadmap.
• Prepare detailed product analysis of competition products.
• Develop business cases with detailed market and competition data.
• Work closely with productivity team for QVE.
• Understand R&D, industrialization functions for smooth project execution.
• Identify and share product gaps and improvement inputs with the team.

Pre-requisites for the role

• BE/BTech/ME/MTech (Mechanical, Electrical, or Engineering in any relevant field); MBA preferred.
• Strong market and product knowledge of Low Voltage Busways/Equipment/Systems portfolio.
• 8–10 years of experience in LV distribution portfolio and product development.
• Good knowledge of competition products and LV application expertise.

Nice to have criteria

• Experience as Product Owner/Manager or in a business role such as marketing, BD, key accounts, sales.
• Experience in R&D or Agile product development.
• Previous experience with competitors such as Siemens, ABB, or Eaton.

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