Product Owner - AI Native Products
Product Owner
Incedo is a US-based consulting, data science and technology services firm with over 2,500 people helping clients from our six offices across US and India. We help our clients achieve competitive advantage through end-to-end digital transformation. Our uniqueness lies in bringing together strong engineering, data science, and design capabilities coupled with deep domain understanding. We combine services and products to maximize business impact for our clients in telecom, financial services, product engineering and life science & healthcare industries.
Working at Incedo will provide you an opportunity to work with industry leading client organizations, deep technology and domain experts, and global teams. Incedo University, our learning platform, provides ample learning opportunities starting with a structured onboarding program and carrying throughout various stages of your career. A variety of fun activities are also an integral part of our friendly work environment. Our flexible career paths allow you to grow into a product manager, a domain expert, client engagement manager based on your skills and interests.
Role Description:
The Product Owner plays a pivotal role in shaping product strategy, defining features, managing requirements, and ensuring successful delivery. This role demands a strong blend of user-centric thinking, analytical problem-solving, cross-functional collaboration, and client engagement. You will partner with engineering, design, sales, and analytics teams to bring digital products to life.
Key Responsibilities
Product Definition & Strategy
- Understand market trends, user needs, and business goals to contribute to the product vision and roadmap.
- Translate business problems and user pain points into well-scoped product opportunities
- Conduct competitive analysis and benchmark features across comparable products.
Feature Prioritisation & Roadmapping
- Prioritise features using relevant frameworks and evaluate trade-offs.
- Manage the product backlog and ensure alignment between product strategy and execution.
- Collaborate with leadership to refine quarterly and sprint-level priorities.
Requirements Gathering & Specification
- Engage with clients, internal stakeholders, and end users to gather functional and technical requirements.
- Write clear and detailed PRDs, user stories, use cases, acceptance criteria, and workflow diagrams.
- Ensure requirements are aligned with user needs, business value, and technical feasibility.
- Client Interaction & Stakeholder Management
- Act as the primary product liaison for client teams, understanding their needs and aligning expectations.
- Communicate progress, trade-offs, and product decisions clearly and confidently.
- Build trusted relationships and proactively identify product enhancements or new use cases.
- Manage demo of the platform with relevant client teams highlighting platform capabilities and differentiators.
Delivery, Execution & Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with engineering, design, QA, analytics, and program management teams to drive end-to-end delivery.
- Participate in sprint ceremonies including backlog grooming, sprint planning, and release reviews.
- Validate product builds, conduct UAT with clients, and ensure release quality.
- Monitor key product metrics and support data-driven decision-making.
- Liaison with SMEs and project leads for RFPs sales teams in closing deals by participating in client calls and pitching solutions.
- Actively contribute to the business development process, support sales teams in closing deals by participating in client calls and pitching solutions.
Product Insights & Continuous Improvement
- Leverage analytics, user feedback, and data insights to validate hypotheses and measure product success.
- Identify optimization opportunities and contribute to iterative improvements.
- Support demo creation, documentation, and product presentations.
Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Consulting, Business Analysis, or a related role.
- Prior experience in a product-based company is strongly preferred.
- Exposure to consulting, analytics, or client-facing roles is beneficial.
- Strong understanding of the product lifecycle, requirements management, and agile methodologies.
- Ability to break down complex problems into structured, actionable product specifications.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with high standards for clarity and visual presentation.
- Technical literacy (APIs, data flows, basic analytics concepts) is preferred.
- MBA from a top-tier university + Bachelors/masters in engineering, Commerce, Economics, Math/Stats
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer
We value diversity at Incedo. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual
orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.