Product Owner - Process Manager

ValGenesis is looking for passionate and experienced Product Owners to join our rapidly growing team. Your focus will be on the overall success of a ValGenesis product line and strategy. You will work closely with Product Management on our product strategy and focus our development teams on the delivery of high-value capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value​
• Develop and explicitly communicate product goals and vision to the team​
• Represent the voice of the customer, collaborating with prospective users to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into product requirements​
• Create and communicate product backlog items​
• Work closely with Professional Services, Support, Engineering, and Quality Assurance to ensure the right customer problems are solved
• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories and epics to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
• Define acceptance criteria, review work done, and make the ultimate decision on when work is ready to ship​
• Monitor and communicate progress within the team and to external stakeholders​
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals​
• Participates in prioritization of issue resolution​

Deliverables ​

• Product release plan in partnership with Product Management​
• Product Epics, Features and User Stories​
• Prioritized Product and Sprint Backlogs​
• Supporting documents, images, and wireframes for user stories​
• Progress reports such as sprint and backlog burndown charts
• Success metrics and ROI for product portfolio

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience of proven Product Owner experience
• Experience using a range of metrics to monitor the success and health of products
• Proven experience working with agile teams to continuously ship customer value
• Experience applying structured prioritization methods to competing priorities
• A solid track record of addressing customer needs, with a focus on connecting teams with users (not just being a proxy)
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to build meaningful relationships across all levels of the business
• Experience managing 3rd-party integrations and launching APIs as a product
• Experience acting as a product manager in agile development and rapid prototyping environment

Preferred

• Relevant enterprise software experience within the Life Sciences industry and a solid understanding of GxP requirements
• Scrum Certifications (Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Product Owner)

We’re on a Mission

In 2005, we disrupted the life sciences industry by introducing the world’s first digital validation lifecycle management system. ValGenesis VLMS® revolutionized compliance-based corporate validation activities and has remained the industry standard.

Today, we continue to push the boundaries of innovation ― enhancing and expanding our portfolio beyond validation with an end-to-end digital transformation platform. We combine our purpose-built systems with world-class consulting services to help every facet of GxP meet evolving regulations and quality expectations.

The Team You’ll Join

• Our customers’ success is our success. We keep the customer experience centered in our decisions, from product to marketing to sales to services to support. Life sciences companies exist to improve humanity’s quality of life, and we honor that mission.​
• We work together. We communicate openly, support each other without reservation, and never hesitate to wear multiple hats to get the job done.
• We think big. Innovation is the heart of ValGenesis. That spirit drives product development as well as personal growth. We never stop aiming upward.
• We’re in it to win it. We’re on a path to becoming the number one intelligent validation platform in the market, and we won’t settle for anything less than being a market leader.​

How We Work

Our Chennai and Bangalore offices are onsite, 5 days per week. We believe that in-person interaction and collaboration fosters creativity, and a sense of community, and is critical to our future success as a company. 

ValGenesis is an equal opportunity employer that makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. Our goal is to have the best-qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other characteristics protected by local law.