About the role
- Define and communicate the product vision, roadmap, and business objectives.
- Collaborate with all departmental heads to understand their business processes, identify technology requirements, and convert them into actionable product initiatives.
- Act as the primary bridge between business stakeholders, customers, and the technology team.
- Gather, analyze, and document detailed business and technical requirements.
- Create and manage product backlogs, user stories, acceptance criteria, and release plans.
- Prioritize features and enhancements based on business impact, technical feasibility, and customer value.
- Lead and coordinate with engineering, QA, UI/UX, DevOps, and other technical teams to ensure timely product delivery.
- Allocate work to the technology team in collaboration with engineering leads, monitor progress, remove blockers, and ensure timely execution.
- Participate in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, and release planning.
- Ensure solutions are technically scalable, secure, and aligned with business objectives.
- Conduct market research, competitor analysis, and identify opportunities for innovation.
- Track product performance, user adoption, and continuously improve the product using data-driven insights.
- Product lifecycle management
- Product roadmap planning
- Requirement gathering and business analysis
- User story creation and backlog management
- Feature prioritization
- Product documentation
- Strong experience working with CXOs, business leaders, and departmental heads.
- Ability to understand business challenges across departments and convert them into technology solutions.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams and coordinating multiple stakeholders.
- Strong ownership, decision-making, and execution capabilities.
- Experience in work planning, task allocation, and delivery management for technical teams.
- Strong understanding of software architecture and SDLC.
- Hands-on knowledge of REST APIs, system integrations, web and mobile applications.
- Good understanding of databases and application workflows.
- Ability to communicate effectively with developers and review technical solutions.
- Ability to evaluate technical feasibility and recommend scalable product solutions.
- Agile methodologies
- Scrum ceremonies
- Sprint planning and release planning
- Stakeholder management
- Product delivery management
- 5–10+ years of experience as a Product Owner/Product Manager.
- Experience working on FinTech, SaaS, Marketplace, CRM, ERP, LOS, LMS, or Enterprise Technology products.
- Experience leading cross-functional product and technology teams.
- Proven experience working directly with business heads and translating business needs into technology solutions.
- Experience managing multiple concurrent product initiatives.
- Strong leadership and team management skills.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Technically sound with the ability to discuss architecture and system design.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Customer-centric mindset.
- Ownership and accountability.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Knowledge of AI and Agentic AI products is an added advantage.
- Timely delivery of product releases.
- Successful execution of technology initiatives across departments.
- Stakeholder satisfaction across business functions.
- Effective coordination and productivity of the technology team.
- Product quality, scalability, and user adoption.
- Measurable business impact and revenue contribution.