What you’ll do:

At Eaton India Innovation Center, Eaton Digital Office is currently seeking a Product Owner to join our team! This position is based at our office in Magarpatta City, Pune. As the product owner of segment application software in our center in India, you will work in domain of digital solutions. This role is the custodian of the product roadmap and vision by helping to shape and refine these. He/She will work with the development team to ensure that the product is built to specification and meets the needs of the customer. The Product Owner will functionally report to the Product Manager or Segment Offer Leader. This role is critical and has significant responsibilities outside the engineering team, including working with offer/product management, customers, and other stakeholders, to define, develop, shape and refine requirements of a complex software product at the heart of the company’s business. PO will drive new product feature and functionality across the organization.

Someone who is Passionate, who understands and inculcate Ethical values with Transparency. He/She is a quick Learner to upcoming technical domains and believes in leading the team from front.

Product Owner is focused on the solution, the execution team and is responsible to:

a) Be available as a domain expert for R&D to clarify user stories and enable technology decisions

b) Be able to translate high level user requirements (from the MRD) to technical user stories for R&D to exexute

c) Set acceptance criteria (definition of done) for user stories, and help with the validation of such criteria at the end of the sprint.

• Responsible for product demos and presentations

• Drive customer focus through applying Value Proposition Canvas, Business Model Canvas, Use Cases - known and any missing pieces in the current offeringsfor a particular market segment

• Keep stakeholders involved by gathering input and communicating progress

• Ensure the completeness and accuracy of product backlog items for the Scrum team by creating clear and thoughtful documentation

• Contribute to the success of the Scrum team by being an active participant in all Scrum ceremonies

• Empower the Scrum team’s ability to create its own plan of action each sprint while protecting the team

• Proactively manage and prioritize the product, release, and sprint backlogs according to business value, complexity, and expectations

• Establish goals and metrics to measure the effectiveness after release

• Gather, understand and document requirements

• Contributes and leads activities of product vision, strategy and roadmap

• As extended member of the product management team, work with Product Manager to set priorities, ensuring the achievement of deliverables and other milestones, collaborate with other engineering and product teams in the company, and improve the way we deliver value to our customers

• Interface with customer/Stakeholder when required

• Work closely with the Platform Product Management team and stakeholders to understand and fulfill the product vision and roadmap

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering /Information Technology/Electronics Engineering from an accredited institution required.

• Preferred - Master’s Degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering from an accredited institution.

• Certifications - ITIL, PO, CSPO, PM, PMI, PMP, CSM

Strong organizational leadership skills in a globally distributed organization

• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate and interact with a variety of internal/external customers and/or co-workers.

• Results-oriented and demonstrated record of developing initiatives that impact productivity.

• Proactive and solutions-oriented with experience working in ambiguity.

• Fosters an environment where employees feel empowered to experiment, innovate, and make decisions.

• Leverages data to create new insights and make better decisions.

• Problem Solving - uses digital technology and processes to solve difficult problems with effective solutions, probes all suitable sources for answers, can see hidden problems, is excellent at unbiased analysis, looks beyond the obvious and doesn't stop at the first answers.

• Innovation Leadership - effective in cultivating creative ideas of others, demonstrates good judgment around creative ideas and which suggestions will work, has a sense about managing the creative process of others, can facilitate effective brainstorming, can project how potential ideas may play out in the marketplace.

• Creativity - comes up with many new and unique ideas, easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions, tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.

• Process Management - Good at figuring out the processes necessary to get things done, knows how to organize people and activities, Knows what to measure and how to measure it, Can simplify complex processes, Gets more out of fewer resources

• Strategic Agility – sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately, has broad knowledge and perspective; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies & plans.

Skills:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience of which 4-10+ years in software product development (on-prem, cloud), 5+ years in software program management (SDLC, Agile)

• 3+ years of experience in product owner/product mgmt/customer front-end.

• Prior experience with digital solutions (software, analytics, devices and services)

Desired key experiences :

• Domain experience in industrial process/discrete, data centers, IOT

• Monetization of analytics using proven digital commercial models

• Good career span in core software development

• Extensive experience with Agile development methodologies and concepts - prioritizing backlog, planning demos and iterations, estimations

• Good knowledge of risk/scope management and Agile software development

• Adept at applying Design Thinking principles, methodologies and tools including digital collaboration tools

• Experience with Agile development tools such as Atlassian, JIRA, Confluence, Rally

• Proven digitally savvy leader experienced in delivering monetized IoT products and data services to market.

• Experience in leading and launching multiple software products

• Proficiency and awareness of key technologies in digital solutions including cloud infrastructure, and platforms specifically Azure and Microsoft technolgies

• Solid understanding of software design principles

• Knowledge of business intelligence tools and methods to measure performance

• Varied roles like Scrum Master, project/program manager

• Knowledge of CI/CD concepts, tools, and technologies

• Proven track record of technically leading successful development teams.

• Builds relationships outside of engineering teams to understand, influence, and serve as their advocate.

• Ability to understand the customer pain points

• Ability to manage multiple projects and resolve issues that impact deadlines; ability to make decisions quickly under conflicting constraints, moving rapidly to meet the demands of a fast-growing company.