Associate Principal Consultant-Product Owner (Gurugram)

SRS Business Solutions India is looking for a highly experienced and versatile Associate Principal Consultant - Product Owner. We need a techno-functional expert with over 11 years of experience, including a minimum of 3-4 years as a Product Owner in product engineering companies. If you're an immediate joiner with a consulting mindset, capable of driving product development from research to delivery, we encourage you to apply! As an Associate Principal Consultant - Product Owner, you will: - Business Needs & Specification: Apply a consulting mindset to conduct thorough research, understand complex business needs, and refine them into clear software specifications via features and user stories. - Issue Resolution: Build an in-depth understanding of issues that arise throughout the product development lifecycle, analyzing them from various angles to find effective solutions. - Backlog Ownership: Own and perform continuous backlog grooming, acting as the key liaison between Business and Engineering teams. - Solution Facilitation: Facilitate solution optioning discussions with Engineering teams to ensure optimal technical approaches. - Feature Definition: Write and document features clearly, aligning them with overarching business goals and metrics. - Acceptance Criteria & Prioritization: Define clear Acceptance Criteria and expertly drive business priority for development efforts. - Cross-Team Coordination: Expertly coordinate between Product Owners of other teams, Engineering teams, and Business stakeholders to drive overall business priority and achieve goals. - User Story Crafting: Write user stories effectively in ATDD (Acceptance Test-Driven Development) format. - Agile & Development Practices: Possess a sound understanding of Agile and Scrum practices, along with a solid background in BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) and ATDD. - Application Architecture: Have a very good background and understanding of Distributed and Decoupled Web and API based applications and their architectural approach. - Team Collaboration: Experience working with geographically distributed Engineering/Scrum teams. - Stakeholder Engagement: Able to define and drive a clear stakeholder engagement communications plan. Collects and uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure the effectiveness of stakeholder management. - Project Management: Possess project management skills to define, document, and execute small projects or sub-projects independently or with a small team, actively participating in all phases. - Communication: Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills. - Product Strategy: Have a sound understanding of MVP (Minimum Viable Product) and MVS (Minimum Viable Service). Good to Have Skills - Product Owner experience in the Wholesale Automotive domain. - CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner) or Protected Product Owner certifications. Note: We are specifically looking for immediate joiners (candidates whose notice period is served or are currently serving their notice period). Please apply only if you meet this criterion. .