Product Owner

Position Summary: 

Precision AQ’s Product Solutions team is expanding in India.  Our focus is building and delivering products and productized services spanning oncology access, social/digital listening, and clinical trial document analysis.  Working with an established India based engineering/research team and global product managers/product owners, the Product Owner will leverage their experience to bring new capabilities and products to market.   This is a hybrid role having both project management/business analysis (established products) and product management (AI-powered offering) responsibilities.  The Product Owner is a critical role to ensure workload balance across the engineering team while effectively managing timelines.

The Product Owner’s primary responsibility is ownership of the project backlogs in Azure DevOps (ADO).  Ownership includes leading feature/user story grooming, sprint planning, and testing coordination.  They will identify risks to project development and escalate to stakeholders when appropriate.  The ideal candidate is experienced leveraging standard frameworks (Scrum) and modifying to fit the culture of the team and the organization.  

The Product Owner will also serve as the product owner for a new, AI-Powered offering.  This offering combines subject matter experts with AI/ML, Quality and infrastructure engineering to deliver a productized service.  In their role as product owner, they will translate requirements from the subject matter expert and combine with strategy driven by the product manager to build a product backlog.

The successful candidate thrives in fast paced environments and is comfortable speaking up as a trusted partner for the other product owners and product manager.  Strong attention to detail, the ability to find solutions to complex resource constraint challenges, and a positive attitude are critical skills for the Product Owner.

Essential functions of the job include but are not limited to: (This is NOT meant to be an exhaustive task list)

1. Project Management & Workflow Management

• Manage product and project backlogs for multiple SaaS/internal products including Epics, Feature, User Stories, Bugs, and tasks
• Ensure consistent intake, triage, tagging, prioritization, and assignment of all product and engineering work items.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Research to ensure stories are clear, testable, and aligned to product goals.
• Track sprint progress, dependencies, blockers, and delivery milestones; escalate risks proactively.
• Build dashboards and reporting views for leadership on throughput, velocity, backlog health, and cycle time.

1. Product & Requirements Support

• Collaborate with Product Manager and Product Owners to translate business needs into structured, well defined features, user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Support grooming, sprint planning, and cross functional alignment on requirements.
• Ensure documentation across products remains organized, version controlled, and easily accessible.
• Maintain crosswalks between project management items and client commitments, internal deliverables, and operational processes.

1. Analytics & Data Operations Coordination

• Coordinate product operations tasks (e.g., dataset refreshes, quality checks, dashboard updates).
• Partner with data engineering and QA to ensure data pipelines are represented correctly within project workflows.
• Track testing cycles, defects, validations, and signoffs for new data processes and product features.

1. Process Improvement & Standardization

• Identify bottlenecks in product and data workflows; propose and implement scalable solutions.
• Improve consistency in story writing, sprint hygiene, testing documentation, and release processes.
• Help drive automation and efficiency initiatives across OG and KDS workflows (aligned with PS strategic themes)

Qualifications:

BA Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Operations Engineering, Busines