Product Owner

Key Responsabilities:

Serve as the voice of the client. Work with internal and external customers to analyze the needs and align product roadmap to strategic goals. Owns the product roadmap. Develop scope and define backlog items (epics/features/user stories) that guide the Agile software development team. Solve product-related problems, make decisions, complete trade-off analysis to stay on track towards business deliverable commitments. Draft key objectives and results, strategies and apply the data for the product to make business decisions. Possess a fundamental understanding of end-to-end customer experience integration and dependencies. Collaborate with stakeholders during the visioning and concept development of a product. Accountable for the created product(s), delivering in the product model and communicating the product needs with business partners.

Essential Skills

Serve as the voice of the client. Work with internal and external customers to analyze the needs and align product roadmap to strategic goals. Owns the product roadmap. Develop scope and define backlog items (epics/features/user stories) that guide the Agile software development team. Solve product-related problems, make decisions, complete trade-off analysis to stay on track towards business deliverable commitments. Draft key objectives and results, strategies and apply the data for the product to make business decisions. Possess a fundamental understanding of end-to-end customer experience integration and dependencies. Collaborate with stakeholders during the visioning and concept development of a product. Accountable for the created product(s), delivering in the product model and communicating the product needs with business partners.

Nice to have Skills:

Assess value, develops cases, and prioritizes stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with a maximum value that are aligned with product strategy. Identifies and helps the client understand the business model, value and value proposition. Develop and maintain an appropriately prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation. Act as an ambassador for the product internally and externally and as the primary contact for queries related to the product. Develop appropriately detailed specifications for the product features so they are clearly understood by the development teams. A leader of the team. Represents team in front of stakeholders, clients or users. A member of the team. Work closely with product management and senior management in order to create a product that fits the company portfolio.

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About us:
Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant (a member of the NASDAQ-100 and one of Forbes World’s Best Employers 2024) is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com

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Disclaimer: 
Compensation information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

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