Product Manager/Product Owner

Key Responsibilities

• Define product vision, strategy, goals, and roadmap aligned with business objectives.
• Conduct market research, competitor analysis, and customer needs assessments.
• Identify opportunities for product enhancements and innovation.
• Prioritize product features based on business value, customer impact, and ROI.

Requirements Gathering & Backlog Management

• Gather and analyze business requirements from stakeholders, customers, and end users.
• Create and maintain product backlogs, epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Translate business requirements into functional specifications.
• Prioritize the product backlog and manage scope changes.
• Ensure requirements are clear, actionable, and aligned with business priorities.

Agile & Scrum Management

• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with Scrum Masters, development teams, QA, and UX/UI designers.
• Clarify requirements and resolve questions during sprint execution.
• Review sprint deliverables and validate that acceptance criteria are met.
• Support continuous improvement and Agile best practices.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams.
• Communicate product vision, priorities, timelines, risks, and dependencies.
• Manage expectations and resolve conflicting stakeholder requirements.
• Facilitate workshops, requirement reviews, and product demonstrations.
• Obtain stakeholder feedback and secure approvals for deliverables.

Product Development & Delivery

• Collaborate with engineering, design, QA, architecture, and operations teams.
• Monitor product development progress and ensure timely delivery.
• Support user acceptance testing (UAT) and defect prioritization.
• Validate that delivered features meet business requirements.
• Coordinate product releases, launch activities, and implementation plans.

Data Analysis & Product Performance

• Define KPIs, OKRs, and success metrics to measure product performance.
• Analyze customer feedback, product usage, and business performance data.
• Identify improvement opportunities using data-driven insights.
• Track adoption, customer satisfaction, revenue impact, and product ROI.

Risk & Dependency Management

• Identify product risks, technical constraints, and cross-team dependencies.
• Evaluate trade-offs involving scope, cost, quality, and delivery timelines.
• Escalate blockers and develop mitigation plans.
• Ensure compliance with relevant business, security, and regulatory requirements.

Key Skills Required

• Product strategy and roadmap planning
• Agile, Scrum, and Kanban methodologies
• Jira and Confluence
• User stories, epics, and acceptance criteria
• Business requirements documentation (BRD/FRD)
• Stakeholder communication and management
• Data analysis and KPI tracking
• UAT and product release management
• Prioritization and decision-making
• Strong analytical, leadership, and communication skills