Sr Product Owner

Overview

Lead the development and continuous improvement of enterprise content creation capabilities within Takeda’s global Content Innovation ecosystem. Own the day-to-day product lifecycle, translate business and platform priorities into requirements, and drive delivery across stakeholders, vendors, engineering and dependent platform teams.

What you'll do

• Develop and articulate product vision, strategy and roadmap.
• Translate platform priorities into executable product requirements and define product offerings in terms of benefits, features and customer journeys.
• Prioritize roadmap features with business stakeholders, platform leadership, vendors and development teams.
• Write and manage backlogs of epics, features and user stories to achieve business goals.
• Evaluate and define requirements, including business needs, dependencies, acceptance criteria and expected outcomes.
• Ensure teams correctly understand requirements and clarify requirements throughout implementation.
• Collaborate with business, engineering, platform teams, vendors and other stakeholders across the content ecosystem.
• Align timelines, dependencies and scope with the scrum master, engineering manager, Platform Manager, vendors and dependent teams.
• Participate in Agile delivery ceremonies, including scrum calls and sprint reviews.
• Drive cross-platform dependencies and alignment across authoring, DAM, MLR, taxonomy/metadata, integrations and downstream capabilities.
• Build stakeholder and platform-user relationships, gather needs and feedback, facilitate decisions and manage expectations.
• Act as the day-to-day product contact and drive topics from business need through evaluation, requirements, delivery and adoption.
• Interface with external technology vendors, translate business needs into vendor requirements, and drive vendor actions, functional issues and roadmap discussions to resolution.
• Understand vendor product roadmaps and identify opportunities relevant to Takeda’s platform strategy and user needs.
• Define release priorities, dependencies, functional readiness and acceptance criteria.
• Partner with engineering and platform teams on CI/CD practices, release readiness and business dependencies.
• Support releases through functional validation, stakeholder readiness and communication.
• Collect and address user feedback, conduct performance audits and stress tests, and address reliability and user-experience issues.
• Monitor platform usage, adoption, user feedback and product performance indicators.
• Maintain product, process, user and maintenance documentation and provide training and support materials.
• Drive operational issues and improvement opportunities to resolution and support rollout and adoption across markets and business units.

What you'll need

• Bachelor’s, Master’s or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field.
• 5+ years of relevant progressive experience.
• Proven experience as a Product Owner or in a similar product management role.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies.
• Knowledge of requirements definition and analysis, design thinking, customer experience, backlog/epic/story management, Agile SDLC and DevOps tools and methodologies.
• Experience with enterprise SaaS/platform product ownership, business and stakeholder management, external vendor management, cross-platform dependency management, product adoption and continuous improvement.
• Ability to independently drive complex topics across business and technology teams.
• Excellent communication, presentation and leadership skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done.
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams in a matrix organization.
• Ability to work autonomously, take ownership of ambiguous topics and drive them through to resolution.
• Ability to translate business needs for technical delivery teams and communicate effectively with stakeholders at different organizational levels.

Nice to have

• Experience in Shaman is strongly preferred.
• Experience in Anthill Activator and Arcane as Viseven eWizard is good to have.
• Experience with Veeva Vault PromoMats and Aprimo is preferred.
• Experience with digital health products or in the healthcare sector is a plus.
• Experience in life sciences marketing/content operations is strongly preferred, including understanding of the end-to-end promotional content lifecycle covering content creation, DAM, MLR review and approval, metadata/taxonomy and omnichannel activation.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise content platforms such as Shaman, Veeva Vault PromoMats and Aprimo is highly desirable.
• Experience working directly with external technology vendors is strongly preferred.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.
• Work arrangement includes hybrid working.
• Employment type: Full time.
• Worker type: Employee; worker sub-type: Regular.