Product Owner (Project Management)

Application deadline:

Workplace: Hybrid Position

Job Location (Short): Chennai, Tamil Nādu, India

Contract Type: Full-Time

Employment Type: Regular

Join our Commercial Building Services division at Grundfos, where we focus on digitalization and differentiation through digital tools. Be part of a young, dynamic global team working with cutting-edge technologies and Machine Learning, including LLMs and RAG, with ample development opportunities. This is your chance to define and set an industry example for others to follow, creating real impact for Grundfos and our customers. Apply now to take advantage of this exciting opportunity, and make a significant impact on Grundfos' digital transformation journey.

We are hiring a Product Owner, oversees the development of AI solution, ensuring the product meets customer needs. They prioritize and manage the product backlog to balance technical feasibility and user-centric design, enhancing overall user satisfaction and engagement. Set the direction for this key initiative, defining and overseeing the product roadmap and facilitate user-driven development.

What is the job about?

Overall, your tasks will cover:

• Define the product in customer-centric terms, add the definitions to the product backlog, and prioritizes them based on importance, and limit/remove dependencies

• Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders

• Work closely with the business to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value and customer needs

• Ordering the items in the Product Backlog to best achieve goals and missions

• Accountable for clearly expressed Product Backlog items (e.g. facilitate the process)

• Optimizing the value of the work the Development Team performs

• Communication between key stakeholders, development team, customers and end-users

• Have an essential role supporting the scrum master in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Sprint Goals

• Ensuring that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the Scrum Team will work on next

• Ensuring the Development Team understands items in the Product Backlog to the level needed

Your Background

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in relevant areas with at least 8-10 years of experience as a Product Owner or similar role in product development, particularly with UX and AI solutions.

• Proven track record in product management with a focus on overseeing the entire product lifecycle from conception to launch.

• Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment with the product vision and goals

• Certified Scrum Product Owner or equivalent experience.

• Deep understanding of product design, requirement breakdown and specification

• Experience with Azure DevOps or other task and requirements management tool.

• Good communication skills both orally and in written English

• Knowledge and experience within product design toolbox e.g business model canvas, empathy maps, story mapping etc.

• Able to apply agile values and principles

• Able to facilitate product design work

What’s in it for you?

Whether it’s developing leadership skills or advancing your expertise even further, we’ll support you with continuous learning and development opportunities, to help discuss and steer your long-term Grundfos career path. You’ll be welcomed from day one into an inclusive, trusting environment guided bysix core values (https://www.grundfos.com/about-us/our-purpose-and-values) .

In addition, your day-to-day benefits include:

• As an AI-based project, you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology

• The ability to work in a cross-cultural, inclusive environment that equally prioritizes well-being and achievement

• You will have the opportunity to join our rapidly expanding AI development team, contributing to the design of the future

• On top of it, flexible working hours and up to 3 days’ additional paid leave for volunteering of your choice

Do you want to learn more?

This position is based out of Chennai . If this sounds appealing to you, please upload your CV/resume and cover letter today via our Careers portal.

If you want to dig deeper into the Grundfos universe, please visit us onLinkedIn (http://linkedin.com/company/grundfos) orYoutube (http://youtube.com/user/grundfos) and to get to know some of your future colleagues and why they appreciate working at Grundfos, check outMeet our people (https://www.grundfos.com/careers/meet-our-people)

We look forward to hearing from you.

About Grundfos

Grundfos is one of the world’s leading water technology companies with more than 19.000 employees in 60+ countries all over the world. Our skills commit us to pioneering solutions to the world’s water and climate challenges and improve the quality of life for people. We dare to do things that others cannot or dare not do, as we believe innovation is not only a business opportunity, but an obligation. And what really matters to us is not short term profit, but the impact we make. By becoming part of our united powerful team, you too can drive this change no matter your role.

An inclusive team

We believe that the key to a work environment, where employees thrive and grow, is our ability to celebrate and value our differences in background, experiences and perspectives. In our recruitment process we welcome all professional people without consideration of age, colour, gender identity, national origin, physical or mental disability, ethnicity or religion.