Technical Product Owner @ Schneider Electric

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Job description Technical Product Owner for EcoStruxure Connected Products

Schneider Electric is seeking a highly motivated, experienced, and enthusiastic Technical Product Owner to guide development of power monitoring products. These products form the physical layer of the EcoStruxure architecture. They are used to capture the ground level information, perform local monitoring and final control functions. At the same time, this information is also passed on to the higher layers of EcoStruxure to perform advanced control and analytics.

Technical Product Owner is a key member of an Agile development team who serves as the liaison between the development team, Manufacturing, product management, offer marketing team. The technical product owner is responsible for defining the technical requirements and specifications for a product or firmware application and for ensuring that these requirements are met by the development team. The technical product owner plays a critical role in ensuring that the product is developed to meet the needs of the customer while also ensuring that technical requirements are met and that the development team has the support and guidance they need to deliver a high-quality product

Key responsibilities:

Translating product requirements into technical requirements and user stories that the development team can implement

Prioritizing and managing the product backlog, ensuring that the most important and valuable features are delivered first

Collaborate with product architect(s) and product managers to translate business requirements into clearly understood user stories for the development teams to implement.

Work with scrum master and technical leads to estimate the user stories and decompose them into actionable development tasks, and determine scope and priorities for individual sprints.

Collaborating with the development team to ensure that technical requirements are well understood and that solutions are aligned with the overall product vision.

Work with development teams to ensure that they understand the vision for the product and are inspired and motivated to deliver innovative and exciting solutions with an appropriate sense of urgency.

Interface with the project team (quality, project management, purchase, supply chain, industrialization, manufacturing) as single point of contact for all technical queries in executing the project.

Act as an ambassador for the product internally and externally, and as a key technical contact for queries related to the product.

Ensuring that the product is delivered on time, within budget, and to the required level of quality.

Providing ongoing support and guidance to the development team throughout the development process

Communicating progress and status updates to stakeholders and the product management team.

Qualifications - Technical:

Bachelor s degree in Electrical or Electronics engineering or equivalent.

Work experience of 4 to 8 years in product development.

Experience in product costing and developing product FMEAs.

Hands-on Scrum / Agile experience of 2-5 years in product development will be highly valued.

Proficient with building workflows, writing user stories, grooming and prioritizing product backlogs and developing acceptance criteria.

Qualifications Soft skills:

Strong leadership skills to influence a diverse group of stakeholders with ability to challenge and make difficult and quick decisions on a daily basis.

Ability to work in a multicultural context and complex environment (functional and organizational).

Ability to learn quickly and work under pressure.

Good analytical and problem-solving skills.

Strong written and verbal English language communication skills.

A good work ethic, along with high energy and a positive attitude, high degree of self-organization.

Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a flexible and changing/demanding environment.

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Keyskills:   scrum agile product management marketing delivery multiple projects simultaneously continuous improvement facilitation supply chain scrum master user stories physical layer product costing problem solving english language equipment supply agile development leadership skills corporate liaison project management product development