Senior Product Owner

ContiTech Business Hub in Bangalore in a key location for ContiTech hosting various functional teams

ONE ContiTech - The first choice for material driven solutions. Contitech Industries is part of Continental Holding. Headquartered in Hannover, Germany, the division contributes to 4B+ to the revenue.

Are you interested in shaping the future of ContiTech together with a great team?

The Product Owner (PO) is a member of the Agile Team consisting of the Development Team, and Scrum Master.

The PO is the content authority for the delivery of the Agile Team and in this regard, the owner of the product backlog.

The PO serves as the interface of the Agile Team to all its stakeholders.at Global level and involving all the regional BA's

The Product Owner (PO) has the content authority for an Agile Team. The PO manages all stakeholders of the Agile Team and clarifies requirements until they are considered ready by the team. The PO manages and breaks down the complexity of the product developed by the Agile Team and drives the incremental deliveries.

• Define, refine and document product features, e.g. with the help of wireframes, user flows and design thinking workshops in collaboration with UI/UX designer
• Prioritize the product backlog and ensure that it is visible, transparent, and clear to the Development Team
• Define Story Acceptance Criteria and support decomposition of requirements and specifications
• Seek exposure to relevant stakeholders to capture requirements to make data driven decisions
• Drive development by collaborating with the team to derive the plan, delivery scope, estimations, iteration goals, and gaining a team commitment
• Develop a vision and a strategy for the product
• Coordinate content dependencies with other Agile Teams (if required)
• Cross collaboration with other functions depending on project requirement
• Accept stories as done including validation of the stories meeting acceptance criteria
• Evaluate and control product quality to ensure continous improvement
• Participate in Team demos, system demos, inspect and adapt workshops and retrospective meetings. Provide feedback for improvements
• Responsible for the conceptual and technical integrity of the features or components with the support from tech lead
• Coordinate data protection compliance and cybersecurity of the application
• Ensure product performance of the solution using data analytics
• Preparation of Program increment for development team
• Communicate current status of the Agile Team - internally and externally
• Alignment with Product Management Team to plan, deliver and launch the product
• Responsible for managing stakeholders (see list above)

Prior Experience of application of project management procedures, methods and tool landscape (e.g. classic and agile)Knowledge of Agile Development Processs and Agile Methods and Framework (e.g. SAFe)

Experience in Problem Resolution (e.g. A3) and Change Management

Experience in relevant latest product technologies, processes for production, software and/or service development (e.g. software updates over the air)

Prior experience of how to analyze monitor, control and report the project status

Knowledge of managing projects in order to achieve the project targets (time, benefit and objectives) and influencing the financial results and meeting the financial KPIs of the project

Understanding of relevant different engineering and base solutions

Knowledge of coaching and training techniques

Knowledge of coaching team in regards to quality mindset and ownership

Knowledge of Conflict Management techniques

Knowledge on leadership models (e.g. transformational and valuebased leadership, motivation of team)

in international/intercultural context

Good to have knowledge of relevant industry standards (e.g. Quality Management System and IATF, customer specific requirements), processes and rules and internal decision-making structures Knowledge of stakeholdes and their interest for leading and managing the project

You

• Ability to establish and maintain a high level of user trust and confidence

• inspire your stakeholder and contact partner with an effective communication of high intercultural sensitivity

• Collaborative, team player attitude and convinced that networking and knowledge sharing are key drivers for success

• up to date on the latest trends in the industry concerning classical data science, data mining, advanced analytics, etc.

Ready to drive with Continental? Take the first step and fill in the online application.