Senior Principal - Product Owner Network Capabilities

Overview

Own and prioritise the product backlog and roadmap for GSK's network capabilities, such as DNS, DHCP and IP address management, translating GSK team needs into prioritised work and maximising the value the platform delivers to consuming teams.

What you'll do

• Own and prioritise the product backlog by value, risk and reliability, applying lean portfolio principles rather than fixed project plans.
• Link every backlog item explicitly to GSK D&T strategy and domain OKRs, and measure the outcome with a named metric.
• Translate consumer needs and business outcomes into clear requirements and user stories that engineering can act on without further interpretation.
• Work daily with the engineering team through refinement, planning and review, and accept completed increments against agreed criteria.
• Balance new capability against the reliability bar, agreeing SLOs and error budget impact with Reliability Engineering before committing to work.
• Use AI tooling to accelerate discovery, backlog refinement and requirement drafting, and record where AI-assisted output has been reviewed before acceptance.
• Measure product adoption, self-service uptake and value delivered, and iterate the roadmap on that evidence rather than on stakeholder volume.
• Steer delivery with flow metrics such as throughput, cycle time and work in progress, and act on them rather than reporting them.
• Manage consumer demand and stakeholder expectations, saying no with a reason where an item does not compete on value.
• Manage supplier-delivered components within the product, holding partners to the same acceptance criteria and reliability standards as internal work.
• Contribute the product view into the domain roadmap held by the Platform Manager and the portfolio view held by the Domain Portfolio Manager.
• Hold the boundaries with the Platform Manager on platform strategy, the Platform Architect on technical design and standards, and Reliability Engineering on the reliability bar.

What you'll need

• Degree in a technology, engineering or business discipline, or equivalent practical experience (e.g., Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering).
• Overall 15 years of experience, typically 5 or more years in product ownership or product management, including at least two years owning a backlog in a platform or infrastructure context.
• Practical experience of lean or agile backlog management, including prioritisation by value and risk rather than by request order.
• Track record of translating business needs into requirements that engineering teams could deliver without repeated clarification.
• Experience working to OKRs and measuring adoption or value delivered rather than features shipped.
• Experience steering with flow metrics and acting on delivery predictability data.
• Experience managing stakeholders and declining requests with a defensible reason.
• Exposure to AI tooling used for discovery, backlog refinement or requirement drafting.
• Experience delivering network capabilities as a Product Owner or equivalent member of an Agile team.
• Capability in Team Backlog prioritisation, story definition, acceptance criteria, Planning Interval events and iteration execution.
• Evidence of delivering shared network capabilities that improved adoption, reliability or operational efficiency.

Nice to have

• Agile or product certifications, such as Certified Scrum Product Owner or SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager.
• Experience with Domain Name System, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, Internet Protocol address management or network access control.
• Experience using Jira, Azure DevOps or a similar backlog management tool.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru Luxor North Tower.