Aezion - Senior Product Owner

• Role: Sr. Product Owner
• Relevant Experience: 6+ years.
• Location: Bangalore/Coimbatore.
• Work mode: WFO.
• Availability: Immediate.
• Role Summary:

• The Sr. Product Owner is responsible for ensuring engineering execution readiness by translating high-level product requirements into clear, build-ready user stories and technical tasks.
• This position involves owning backlog decomposition, documentation, and sprint preparedness while collaborating closely with Engineering, QA, DevOps, and a US-based Customer Product Owner to deliver predictable, high-quality releases.

Key Responsibilities:

• Backlog Engineering & Decomposition (Build-ready delivery).
• Decompose epics/features into detailed user stories, technical tasks, and acceptance criteria.
• Run backlog refinement with engineering teams to ensure clarity, estimation readiness, and sequencing.
• Maintain Definition of Ready and Definition of Done discipline to reduce churn and rework.

Technical Documentation & Workflow Definition:

• Create and maintain key artifacts: workflow diagrams, system flows, data mappings, integration notes, and edge cases.
• Ensure non-functional requirements are explicit (performance, security, reliability, observability).
• Partner with architects and engineering leads to validate feasibility and solution approach.

Sprint Execution & Delivery Predictability:

• Drive sprint-level execution readiness: planning inputs, dependency tracking, and scope sequencing.
• Proactively unblock engineers and QA by clarifying logic, behavior, and constraints quickly.
• Communicate delivery risks, trade-offs, and technical dependencies early and clearly.

Quality, Validation & Release Readiness:

• Define testable acceptance criteria and partner with QA to ensure strong functional and regression coverage.
• Support UAT readiness with the Customer PO: test notes, known issues list, validation steps, and demo readiness.
• Coordinate release inputs with DevOps/TPMs: release checklist, deployment readiness, and rollback considerations.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Act as the India-based bridge across Engineering, QA, DevOps, and Support to maintain shared understanding of scope and intent.
• Ensure consistent documentation and traceability from requirements to build to validation.

Ideal candidates should have:

• 6+ years in a technical, engineering-facing product role.
• Strong Agile experience with tools like Jira, Confluence, or Azure DevOps.
• A solid understanding of APIs, integrations, and modern software delivery.
• A quality-driven, detail-oriented, and execution-focused mindset.

Core Competencies (Aezion Success Traits):

• Execution ownership, structured thinking, and strong documentation habits.
• Technical clarity and crisp communication.
• Quality mindset and proactive risk management.

Delivery discipline: Get it right.

Make it right.