Product Owner

Role Description
At UST, we help the world’s best organizations grow and succeed through transformation. Bringing together the right talent, tools, and ideas, we work with our client to co-create lasting change. Together, with over 30,000 employees in 30+ countries, we build for boundless impact—touching billions of lives in the process. Visit us at www.ust.com
UST is looking for Product Owner
Job Description: Product Owner
Job Title: Product Owner
Experience: 8+ Years
Locations: Trivandrum, Kochi, Chennai, Bangalore, Pune
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Product Owner to drive product development by serving as the key bridge between business stakeholders and technology teams. The ideal candidate will be responsible for defining product requirements, managing and prioritizing the product backlog, and ensuring that delivered solutions align with business objectives and customer needs.
Key Responsibilities
Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring priorities are aligned with business value and strategic goals.
Gather, analyze, and document business and functional requirements.
Translate business requirements into clear user stories, epics, features, acceptance criteria, and product requirements.
Collaborate closely with business stakeholders, customers, architects, developers, and QA teams throughout the product lifecycle.
Lead and actively participate in backlog grooming/refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and product demonstrations.
Define and communicate the product vision and roadmap to delivery teams and relevant stakeholders.
Ensure product features and solutions align with customer expectations and business objectives.
Make prioritization decisions and provide timely requirement clarifications during development cycles.
Monitor product performance and gather stakeholder and customer feedback to support continuous improvement.
Support release planning, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and product rollouts.
Work closely with Agile delivery teams to ensure requirements are understood, appropriately prioritized, and delivered effectively.
Mandatory Skills
8+ years of overall professional experience with strong experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or Product Manager in Agile environments.
Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodology and product backlog management.
Hands-on experience creating and managing user stories, epics, features, and acceptance criteria.
Strong requirements gathering, analysis, and documentation skills.
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
Experience collaborating with cross-functional business and technology teams.
Strong understanding of product lifecycle management, prioritization, and release planning.
Experience supporting UAT and product releases.
Proficiency with Agile/product management tools such as:
Jira
Azure DevOps
Confluence
Key Skills
Product Ownership | Product Backlog Management | Agile/Scrum | User Stories | Acceptance Criteria | Requirements Gathering | Stakeholder Management | Product Roadmap | Sprint Planning | Backlog Refinement | UAT | Jira | Azure DevOps | Confluence
What We Believe
We’re proud to embrace the same values that have shaped UST since the beginning. Since day one, we’ve been building enduring relationships and a culture of integrity. And today, it's those same values that are inspiring us to encourage innovation from everyone, to champion diversity and inclusion and to place people at the centre of everything we do.
Humility
We will listen, learn, be empathetic and help selflessly in our interactions with everyone.
Humanity
Through business, we will better the lives of those less fortunate than ourselves.
Integrity
We honour our commitments and act with responsibility in all our relationships.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
UST is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences, such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, religion, or sexual orientation.
All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, colour, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.
UST reserves the right to periodically redefine your roles and responsibilities based on the requirements of the organization and/or your performance.
To support and promote the values of UST.
Comply with all Company policies and procedures
Skills
Azure DevOps, Confluence, Jira

Work arrangement
No