Nisum is a leading global digital commerce firm headquartered in California, with services spanning digital strategy and transformation, insights and analytics, blockchain, business agility, and custom software development. Founded in 2000 with the customer-centric motto “Building Success Together®,” Nisum has grown to over 1,800 professionals across the United States, Chile,Colombia, India, Pakistan and Canada. A preferred advisor to leading Fortune 500 brands, Nisum enables clients to achieve direct business growth by building the advanced technology they need to reach end customers in today’s world, with immersive and seamless experiences across digital and physical channels.
What You'll Do
Learning the product, to ensure proper understanding of context, features and functions
Producing clear, high-quality, specific, and unambiguous, functional and nonfunctional requirements for changes of various complexities.
Providing a high-quality detailed analysis with the customer journey in mind, working through requirements in an agile manner, considering for fitness of purpose, adherence to business objectives, and consistency, challenging positively where appropriate.
Defining specific and measurable Acceptance Criteria.
Collecting feedback and defining requirements from all the involved stakeholders via scheduled and non-scheduled mechanisms.
Reviewing and confirming that designed features/functions ultimately meet the specified intent, requirements, business and end-user needs where applicable.
Assessing reported defects, non-functional requirements, and other technical debt, triaging severity and prioritizing resolution alongside feature work, to ensure not only that the product always meets established Quality Criteria, but that quality continuously improves.
Generating documents and other artifacts describing current and future product features and functions, using approved processes
Prioritization and Planning – responsible for:
Setting priorities in collaboration with key stakeholders against planned objectives, and supporting sprint planning and other preparatory activities, ensuring that the product needs and vision are maintained.
Tracking progression over time to ensure client, business, and technical goals are met
Coordinating development and defect resolution across multiple teams, programmes and locations, and identifying dependencies between teams
Continuously seeking ways to improve processes to increase efficiency and performance.
Project activities and Stakeholder interactions – responsible for:
The individual would work with different sets of stakeholders, both technical and business, from Software Engineering Teams to Project/Programme Management, Product Management and Delivery to assist with strategic planning and gain early knowledge of future scope and goals. They would regularly:
Engage with Software Engineering teams and related stakeholders as part of an Agile team, ensuring that Software Engineers understand requirements.
Work with Architecture Team to elicit requirements and scope solutions.
Work with Architecture Team and Software Engineering teams to discover underlying design gaps and/or technical gaps against associated risks e.g. security, performance, usability, etc.
Maintain a clear view on progress and articulating it to stakeholders, alongside issues and risks
Report on progress to achieve transparency and traceability among Sr stakeholders.
Confidently facilitate grooming and solution design meetings
Confidently present and demonstrate software at different levels.
Advocate for Agile practices to achieve increasingly Agile working.
What You Know
A minimum of 7+Years of experience is required.
Background in a Product role within a Software / Technology context, possessing strong technical expertise and the ability to confidently work with customers and other stakeholders.
Experience of working in an Agile environment, ideally in software product development, using one or more of the primary Agile methodologies (Scrum/KanBan/XP etc).
Fast learner – can quickly get up to speed with vast complex solutions and knows how to acquire knowledge, able to adapt to changes in a fast-paced environment, resilient and self-confident.
Strong networking, collaboration and influencing skills (role requires a hands-on approach to ensure successful delivery).
Excellent written and verbal communication skills (essential to be able to communicate with stakeholders from different countries, cultures, and backgrounds) and strong listening skills.
Able to demonstrate a strong understanding of business processes and translate that understanding into technical requirements.
Being logical and passionate yet patient lends itself to success in this role.
Proven track record in the domain would be an advantage / industry or academic certifications relevant to the domain, technology, or discipline of Product Ownership would be an advantage.
Fluent levels of verbal and written English.
Education
BS in Computer Science or related fields; MS preferred
Benefits
In addition to competitive salaries and benefits packages, Nisum India offers its employees some unique and fun extras:
Continuous Learning - Year-round training sessions are offered as part of skill enhancement certifications sponsored by the company on a need basis. We support our team to excel in their field.
Parental Medical Insurance - Nisum believes our team is the heart of our business and we want to make sure to take care of the heart of theirs. We offer opt-in parental medical insurance in addition to our medical benefits.
Activities -From the Nisum Premier League's cricket tournaments to hosted Hack-a-thon, Nisum employees can participate in a variety of team-building activities such as skits, and dances performance in addition to festival celebrations.
Free Meals - Free snacks and dinner is provided on a daily basis, in addition to subsidized lunch.
