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Position : Product Owner

Location : Chennai

Who Are We : Purchasing Power (corp.purchasingpower.com)

We are an Atlanta-based voluntary benefit company offering an industry-leading employee purchase program for brand-name consumer products, online education services and travel offerings through convenient payroll deduction, helping employees achieve financial flexibility. The Opportunity : We are Seeking a Product Owner to join our Technology team in Chennai, India. As a Product Owner at Purchasing Power, you represent the customer and create a shared understanding of the problem and solution by providing one voice to the development team. This role requires strong analytical and organizational skills, as well as the ability to find innovative solutions to various challenges.

Our Product Management team consists of cross-functional product managers and product owners that support our E-commerce, Operations, and financial business areas. Product Owners in this organization sit with the Scrum team at the intersection of the business and technology and are focused on enhancing existing products, features, and capabilities in our ecosystem. In this role as Product Owner, you will maintain the product backlog of system enhancements. Your stakeholders will vary and include business owners and subject matter experts across the enterprise. You will work with the Scrum team and product management organization on execution of the enhancement backlog in alignment with business needs.

What You Will Do :

• A successful candidate will need to be self-organized and a great communicator having an inquiring mind and proactive nature in approaching the following set of responsibilities :
• Facilitate the enterprise enhancement intake process, communicating directly with business stakeholders.
• Gather requirements from product manager, internal stakeholders, and customers
• Oversee all stages of product creation including design, story writing, and development
• Manages the product backlog priorities for the scrum team; JIRA is preferred.
• Owns backlog grooming with the scrum team to ensure there’s a mutual understanding of the needs.
• Planning and preparing user stories for grooming sessions.
• Ability to communicate impediments to business owners and product leadership.
• Data centric decision maker based on success criteria.
• Story verification and acceptance for new features, enhancements & defects.
• Provide release notes and demonstrations with product releases.

The Experience You Will Bring :

Experience in designing in-house software.

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