Product Owner

An Amazing Career Opportunity foraProduct Owner

Job ID: 51649

Do you enjoy bringing business needs and technology? As Product Owner, you'll lead product decisions, collaborate with teams in France and India, and deliver smart solutions that transform textile operations worldwide.

Who are we?

HID powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places, and things, allowing people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely.

Identification Technologies (IDT):IDT is creating trusted identities for IoT applications through Smart Components and Enabling Services. HID’s Identification Technologies powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places and things through smart components and cloud services. We make it possible for people and organizations to transact safely, work productively, and travel freely. Our contactless identification and sensing (RFID, NFC, and BLE) components and solution enabling technologies address the dynamic requirements across multiple industries to wirelessly connect, identify, collect and manage data quickly and accurately across virtually any IoT application.

You will join our Business Unit specializes in textile management. Our products include durable RFID tags, powerful readers and specialized software to automate inventory tracking across industrial laundries, hotels, hospitals and uniform operations.

As our Product Owner, you’ll support HID’s success by:

maximize the value delivered by the product by translating product strategy and customer needs into a clear, prioritized and actionable Product Backlog. You will work closely with Product Management, Engineering, Support and Delivery (with teams based in France and India) to ensure that product increments are clearly defined, functionally validated and ready for release. You will report to the Director, Solutions Product Management

Product Direction and Stakeholder Alignment

• Develop a thorough understanding of the product vision, strategic objectives, target users and key customer needs defined with Product Management.
• Translate the Product Roadmap, owned and maintained by Product Management, into a clear and actionable Product Backlog.
• Work closely with Product Management, Sales, Support, Delivery and customers to capture feedback, market needs and operational issues.
• Communicate product priorities, intended outcomes and key decisions clearly to the development team and stakeholders.
• Own, maintain, refine and prioritize the Product Backlog to maximize product value and support agreed business priorities.
• Ensure that backlog items are sufficiently detailed, understood and ready before Sprint Planning.
• Translate product features into clear user stories, including business context, acceptance criteria and relevant dependencies.

Delivery and Functional Validation

• Act as the day-to-day product decision-maker for the development team, providing timely clarification and removing functional impediments.
• Participate actively in Scrum ceremonies and ensure that product decisions are made promptly.
• Work with Engineering to ensure that functional and non-functional requirements, technical dependencies, operational constraints and known limitations are clearly understood before development begins.

Release Scope and Functional Readiness

• Own the functional readiness of each release, ensuring that the release scope, functional testing, documentation, training needs and stakeholder communication are complete before production deployment.
• Define release scope and contribute to target dates and delivery commitments, working jointly with Engineering to assess effort, technical readiness, dependencies, risks and capacity.
• Participate in release readiness and go/no-go reviews with the appropriate stakeholders; go/no-go decisions are shared between Product and Engineering.

Your Experience and Background include:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, Engineering, Business or a related field is preferred; equivalent professional experience will also be considered
• Minimum of5years ofProduct Owner experience preferably in a software, SaaS, IoT, RFID or connected-product environment. You have a strong practical understanding of Agile methodologies, particularly Scrum, and experience working closely with software development teams
• Strong ability to understand customer workflows, identify user needs and translate them into clear product requirements.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work effectively across Product Management, Engineering, Support, Delivery and commercial teams
• Ability to make timely decisions, manage competing priorities and communicate risks or dependencies clearly <