Product Lead

Overview

Act as the domain-level product lead for a defined product area, translating product strategy and business priorities into clear direction for Product Owners and agile squads.

What you'll do

• Act as the domain-level product lead for a defined area, such as Core, Print, or Voting/Tabulation/Edit Load.
• Translate Product Manager strategy, roadmap priorities, and business objectives into clear direction for Product Owners and squads.
• Support prioritization and sequencing of work across squads, including discretionary initiatives, run/OCC work, lite requests, regulatory work, production support, and technical debt.
• Review incoming requests for business value, urgency, timelines, dependencies, impacted squads, capacity implications, and governance needs.
• Ensure requests are categorized and prioritized using agreed criteria, such as Critical, High, Medium, and Low.
• Work with Product Owners to align squad backlogs with domain priorities, roadmap commitments, and available capacity.
• Guide Product Owners on backlog quality, requirement readiness, prioritization, stakeholder communication, and dependency management.
• Participate in key business and refinement discussions for complex, high-priority, cross-squad, or high-risk initiatives.
• Ensure appropriate SME involvement for discovery, technical clarification, spikes, and requirement validation.
• Coordinate with Delivery Managers, Engineering leaders, QA leads, SMEs, and Scrum Masters on delivery constraints, dependencies, and sequencing impacts.
• Maintain visibility into domain-level capacity, delivery risks, blockers, resource constraints, and impacts to roadmap commitments.
• Identify and escalate priority conflicts, major trade-offs, cross-squad dependencies, and delivery risks to the Product Manager when needed.
• Support domain intake reviews, backlog reviews, prioritization discussions, and governance preparation.
• Provide regular domain-level updates on priorities, progress, risks, capacity, dependencies, and milestone impacts.
• Coach and support Product Owners; where needed, directly perform Product Owner responsibilities for specific initiatives, including gathering requirements, creating/refining stories, managing backlog items, and supporting delivery through completion.

What you'll need

• Strong domain and business knowledge in relevant product, operations, and technology areas.
• Experience working with agile product delivery teams across multiple squads.
• Strong knowledge of backlog management, prioritization, release planning, and dependency management.
• Ability to assess business value, urgency, risks, capacity constraints, and delivery trade-offs.
• Experience using Jira, ESM, dashboards, and reporting tools for backlog and delivery visibility.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across Product, Engineering, Delivery, Operations, SMEs, and business teams.
• Ability to translate product strategy and business needs into actionable priorities for squads.
• Strong communication, influencing, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience coaching or mentoring Product Owners, Business Analysts, or similar roles.
• Understanding of functional requirements, non-functional requirements, technical debt, production support, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to work effectively in a complex environment with high request volumes and competing priorities.
• Understanding of agile principles, product operating models, and governance practices.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad-Hi-Tec City.