Description

What You'll Do:

• Own, create, refine, and prioritize product backlog items including epics, features, and user stories.
• Define clear acceptance criteria and ensure backlog readiness for development teams.
• Continuously groom and maintain the backlog based on business priorities and customer feedback.
• Ensure product delivery aligns with organizational goals and business value realization.
• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders, customers, laboratory teams, and domain experts to gather and analyze requirements.
• Translate complex business and operational requirements into actionable user stories.
• Act as the primary point of contact between business users and technical teams.
• Facilitate workshops, requirement discussions, and product demonstrations.
• Participate actively in Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Work with Scrum Masters and development teams to ensure smooth sprint execution.
• Drive incremental delivery of product features and enhancements.
• Ensure stakeholder engagement throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Align product roadmap with business objectives and strategic initiatives.
• Define product success metrics, KPIs, and business outcomes.
• Analyze customer feedback, product usage, and operational metrics to drive continuous improvement.
• Support product vision, long-term planning, and innovation initiatives.
• Manage projects and product requirements related to analytical and scientific instruments.
• Understand laboratory operations, sample analysis workflows, and scientific data processes.
• Collaborate with laboratory scientists, quality teams, and business users to optimize operational efficiency.
• Support digital transformation initiatives within Life Sciences organizations.
• Collaborate with Engineering, QA, UX, Product Management, Compliance, and Operations teams.
• Communicate priorities, risks, and dependencies effectively across stakeholders.
• Drive consensus among cross-functional teams and facilitate decision-making.
• Mentor teams on Agile product ownership best practices.

Expertise You'll Bring:

• 15-20 years of overall IT and business solution delivery experience.
• Significant experience as a Product Owner, Senior Business Analyst, Product Manager, or Agile Delivery Lead.
• Strong domain experience in Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, Food Sciences, Environmental Testing, or related industries.
• Hands-on experience handling requirements related to laboratory operations, scientific instruments, and sample analysis workflows.
• Deep understanding of Agile methodologies including Scrum and Kanban.
• Expertise in writing user stories, acceptance criteria, backlog refinement, and feature prioritization.
• Proven experience managing product backlogs and maximizing business value delivery.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and negotiation skills.
• Experience defining product roadmaps, KPIs, and product success measures.
• Ability to balance strategic planning with hands-on execution.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams and enterprise-scale product environments.
• Proficiency with Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, or similar Agile management tools.
• Good understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Familiarity with Agile metrics, release planning, and product governance.
• Experience tracking product performance using business and operational analytics.
• Understanding of application development, testing, and deployment processes

Key Skills

Education

Any Graduate