Product Development & Management - Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India - Full Time
About PDI With 40 years of industry leadership, PDI Technologies resides at the intersection of productivity and sales growth, delivering powerful solutions that serve as the backbone of the convenience retail and petroleum wholesale ecosystem. By “Connecting Convenience” across the globe, we empower businesses to increase productivity, make informed decisions, and engage faster with their customers, from large-scale ERP and logistics operations to loyalty programs and cybersecurity, we’re simplifying the industry supply chain for whatever comes next.
The Opportunity The Product Owner (PO) is a critical member of an agile development team that drives the team to deliver high quality, high value features and functions. As a PO, you will help shape our product features and requirements while working closely with Agile engineering teams, Product Managers, customers, and business stakeholders to build high quality products for our target markets. Prior experience in Product Management, Product Owner, or Business Analyst role for [insert copy that summarizes the app/platform area] is highly desired.
Primary Responsibilities
Stay aligned with and contribute to the product vision, roadmaps and priorities
Work closely with Support to understand and prioritize customer reported issues
Work closely with system users (customers, partners, consulting) to understand product needs and translate into actionable user stories
Work with technical astuteness, be detailed oriented and proactive in driving closure and optimizing throughput of development teams
Serve as a product evangelist, particularly with Product Managers and Business teams, to help them understand the best practices of using the platform
Contribute and develop documentation for new features including user interface mockups, process and data sequence diagrams
Attend sprint planning meetings, work with the team to define sprint goals
Guide agile teams in breaking down user stories and defining acceptance criteria
Ensure that product backlogs are prioritized, and properly balanced between product and maintenance
Collaborate with teams to review output during sprints, answer questions about desired functionality/outcomes
Ensure the team has the appropriate number of stories in the backlog prepared for sprint planning, monitor ready stories vs. velocity
Conduct backlog refinement meetings, sprint reviews and product demos
Manage product backlog in ALM tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, etc.
Author and publish product release notes and customer notifications.