Technical Product Owner

Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTIONBring more to life.Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnologyAt SCIEX, one of Danahers 15 operating companies, our work saves livesand were all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.Youll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danahers system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact innovating at the speed of life.As part of SCIEX, you will help to influence life changing research and outcomes, while accelerating your potential. For more than 50 years, we have been empowering our customers to solve the most impactful analytical challenges in quantitation and characterization through ground-breaking innovation and outstanding reliability and support. You will be part of a winning team, enabled by DBS, that is passionate about helping life science experts around the world get to answers they can trust.Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible.Position OverviewThe Technical Product Owner I is responsible for leveraging their experience to plan and conduct all levels of product ownership against our software products within an agile team of designers, testers, and developers. The candidate will use the provided tools and agile processes to assist the software team, bridge the gap between business and engineering teams by defining product requirements, prioritizing the backlog, ensuring technical feasibility, and making sure the product delivers value.This position reports to the Senior Engineering Manager and is part of the Software Department, team located in Bangalore and will be an on-site role.Key ResponsibilitiesIn this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Develop and maintain the product backlog, ensuring it is well-organized, prioritized, and up to date.
• Write clear and detailed user stories with acceptance criteria to guide the Scrum team.
• Gather requirements from stakeholders, participate in backlog refinement (grooming) sessions, Sprint planning and sprint review meetings, and team demos, and track the progress.
• Provide clarification and additional details to ensure that the backlog items are ready for development.
• Work closely with the Product Manager to align the product backlog with the overall product strategy and goals.
• Communicate the product vision and roadmap to the development team to ensure alignment and understanding.
• Gather and incorporate feedback from users and customers into the product backlog for continuous improvement.
• Advocate for the end-users by ensuring that the product delivers value and meets user needs.
• Represent the target customer to the team and answer questions regarding customer goals.
• Collaborate with the Product Manager to author the User Needs Document.
• Conduct/Support internal customer evaluations to gain customer insight and test the value of features and/or products.
• Support feature acceptance through formative evaluation of features on the runway.
• Collect and analyze customer VOC relevant to the product under development.
• Define the validation strategy and contribute to and approve the validation plan.

Essential RequirementsThe essential requirements of the job include:

• Bachelors degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 12 years of experience in understanding software development best practices and scrum principles.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills: ability to dissect problems and projects into manageable tasks and learn customer workflows and technologies that support the products.
• Leadership Skills: Demonstrated ability to direct and motivate the product development team of an organization.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly explain complex technical topics to development teams.
• Ability to resolve ambiguity and grey areas.
• Basic knowledge of work management tools (JIRA) for the purpose of creating user stories and managing team backlog.

Preferred QualificationsIt would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Proven ability to make decisions, positively influence others, and work well in a fast-moving environment.
• Interpersonal skills: Team player who has a proven track record of working effectively in a cross-functional, matrix environment and with user groups.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to interact well with people at all levels within an organization.
• Ability to learn new software and experience in Agile and Scrum principles and ISTQB foundation certification or equivalent.
• Exceptional attention to detail, strong organizational, time management, and prioritization skills; comfortable with ambiguity.

BenefitsSCIEX, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether its a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.Join our winning team today. Together, well accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrows science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.For more information, visit www.danaher.com.At Danaher, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace, and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers, and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.

Keyskills :
product ownership agile methodologies user story creation backlog management cross functional collaboration software engineering author team player leadership skills