Y Media Labs - Product Owner

Product Owner

Y Media Labs is a creative technology company that helps brands re-imagine their customer experiences. Our mission is to export the Silicon Valley mindset to the rest of the world.

We create digital products with purpose that have a lasting impact on users' lives and clients' businesses. We are a team of dreamers and doers united by a simple idea: If we make a difference for your customers, we will make a difference for your business too. And it works. Since 2009, we have led earlystage startups and top-tier brands to "wow" their customers with best-inclass digital products and experiences. The Wall Street Journal calls us "YML is one of the most innovative companies in Silicon Valley."

Through next-generation technologies and world-class design, we help brands like Apple, PayPal, L'Oreal, Home Depot, Kaiser Permanente, State Farm, First Republic Bank etc develop solutions that drive major business outcomes. Founded in 2009, Y Media Labs is headquartered in Silicon Valley with four offices worldwide including Atlanta, Indianapolis, Bangalore & Sao Paulo.

We came of age with the invention of the app store. We have mobile in our DNA. We create solutions across the digital ecosystem. Unlike agencies who are born desktop, we are deeply connected to how consumer perception has shifted thanks to the mobile lifestyle. We have built and launched 207 products, delighted over 407 million users, built over 200+ apps, work with 30 Fortune 500 clients, been responsible for over 400 billion transactions through our work and generated over $200 billion in transactions for our clients, and been featured on the app store over 700+ times!

- Portfolio of our work can be found @ ymedialabs.com/work

- Live look into our engineering team @ medium.com/ymedialabs-innovation

- Live look into our design team @ dribbble.com/ymedialabs

Our team in Bangalore is close to 300 strong, and we are growing in a variety of ways. Our goals include a culture of excellence and we are looking to transform the team to be one of the best tech teams in Bangalore.

We are looking to hire multiple Technical Product Owners at different levels for our team in Bangalore. If you are excited about building products that will be used by millions of consumers worldwide, building products for brands that you can be proud to show to your family and friends - you need to join us!

This position reports to: Director of Product and Program.

What you will be doing:

- Building product strategy with a strong technology mindset.

- Work closely with business team in their pitch and proposals through user research and evaluating emerging technologies to foster innovation in shaping product ideas.

- Lead Product Definition phase by driving user research, story mapping, technical feasibility study to generate solutions for client's problems/user needs.

- Define, develop and execute product roadmap through till delivery by ruthlessly prioritizing the backlog.

- Leverage analytics and user research to envision and propose product improvements.

- Define, analyze, and communicate product metrics to guide new features and enhancements.

- Serve as the Scrum Product Owner for development teams, including all responsibilities like roadmap definition, feature prioritization, story writing with detailed acceptance criteria.

What You Will NOT Be Doing:

- Project and people management.

- Owning and driving engineering decisions.

Requirements:

- A highly talented and driven technical product owner with 8+ years of overall experience and 5 years actively as technical product manager/owner.

- Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in mobile development and web technologies (CMS, Angular React).

- Has excellent analytical and communication skills with proven ability to influence and negotiate with clients and internal stakeholders.

- Experience defining product strategy from scratch with implementation success in previous roles is a must.

- Proven experience one or more of mobile/healthcare/fintech domains or startup space.

- Technical background in building mobile/cloud/ML/AI/SaaS products and bring own point of view in proposing the solutions to client requirements.

- Act as product evangelist with deep curiosity on technology trends and being able to go deep into technology and relate technical enhancements to build product vision.

- Experience with cloud ecosystem or related technologies.

- Groom and prioritize the work in the backlog according to business value.

Nice to Have:

- Extensive experience working in an Agile Scrum methodology.

- Multi-tasker with ability to support at least 2 products in parallel.

- Experience with Rally/Jira/Azure Devops or similar Agile Project Management tools.

- Proficiency with at-least in one language Python, Swift, Kotlin etc.

- Ability to use story splitting techniques to break larger stories and deliver in small increments.

- Experience using workshop techniques to foster story mapping and ideation sessions.

Qualification :

- Have Computer science or engineering background strongly preferred;

- MBA a plus.

Years of Exp : 8+