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Principal Global Services

Associate Product Manager

full-time•Pune

Summary

Location

Pune

Type

full-time

Experience

5-10 years

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About this role

Responsibilities

  

 

 

 

 

Job Purpose

The Product Owner is a member of the Agile Team and is responsible for defining and prioritizing the team’s backlog to effectively address identified product/program/project management objectives. An ideal candidate for the role will have experience working with intermediate portfolios, will play a significant role in the oversight of delivered work, and is instrumental in preparation and delivery of system demos.

 

 

Essential Functions

 

1       Responsible for backlog refinement and preparation of planned releases which includes backlog grooming, prioritizing the team’s backlog, and ensuring the backlog represents priorities of the business are adequately represented. Contribute to creating product/program/project vision, roadmap, and content presentations.

25 %

2       Responsible for validating the story meets acceptance criteria and will achieve the desired customer outcome.

15 %

3       Reviews and re-prioritizes backlog as part of preparatory work for sprint planning, including the coordination of content dependencies with other product owners. During the planning meeting, acts as a source for user story detail and priorities, and has the responsibility to accept the final sprint plan.

15 %

4       When planning, is involved with story definition, providing clarification to assist team with story estimates, sprint loading, story sequencing, and drafting the team's specific objectives.

15 %

5       With input from the product manager and other stakeholders, has the primary responsibility to build, refine, and maintain team backlog. Backlog consists mostly of user stories, but also includes defects, refactors, and infrastructure work. Backlog items are prioritized on user value, time, and other team dependencies which are determined in release planning.

20 %

6       Has significant role in communicating and gathering feedback from customers/ users on delivered work and sharing the feedback with the team, and reviewing/accepting stories. Also participates in team retrospective when appropriate to help team as they work on continuous improvement.

5 %

7       Perform other job-related duties or special projects as required.

5 %

 


Qualifications

Essential Qualification

 

·        Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required, plus

·        at least 6 years related experience.

·        Excellent communication skills required including the ability to influence and negotiate.

·       Solid strategic thinking, collaboration and decision-making skills required.

 

 

Desired Qualification

 

Mid-level experience of working in FS domain

Working as Business Analyst is an added advantage

Understanding of role of PO in agile environment

Deep understanding of Life / Retirement domain

Good grasp of end to end process flow of Life / Retirement Domain

Understanding of Product Management Concepts

Experience in backlog grooming / prioritization

Should have worked in agile teams at scrum level and involvement in scrum planning

Working in agile environment and collaborating closely with Business and Scrum Team.

Exposure to Business and IT stakeholder Management

 

 


 

What you'll do

  • The Associate Product Manager is responsible for defining and prioritizing the team's backlog to meet product management objectives. This includes backlog refinement, validating user stories, and communicating with stakeholders.

About Principal Global Services

Principal Global Services is a Global In-house Center, dedicated to supporting Principal Financial Group achieve our common purpose of empowering and enabling our customers across the globe by protecting and advancing their financial well-being through retirement, insurance and asset management solutions. Since our inception in 2006, our continued focus has been to take our services to the next level of providing solutions, which has been further reinforced with stimulating results and a clear strategic direction. Over the last decade, we have assimilated the right mix of talent and competencies to build a center of excellence that delivers quality, innovation and strategic value. We offer right over best opportunities for a holistic growth, because we believe that engagement is directly proportional to the right opportunities, fostered by cultural pillars of empowerment and enablement. Principal Global Services has offices in Hyderabad (India), Manila (Philippines) and Pune (India). To find out more, visit us at www.principal.com

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