Product Owner - Design Automation

Role overview

Product Owner - Design Automation at SKF Engineering and Lubrication India Pvt Ltd

Driving Product Outcomes Ensure the product delivers value by driving changed user behavior and aligning with business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Collaboration with Product Manager Work in close partnership with the PM to align on product mission, vision, and strategy, ensuring that execution supports high-level strategic goals.
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership Work closely with the agile team to ensure efficient processes aligned with agile best practices.
• Act as a leader who influences without direct authority.
• Customer Advocacy: Act as the proxy or voice of the customer in product discussions, ensuring that user needs, problems, and desires are represented in decision-making.
• Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration: Together with the PM communicate with various levels inside the organization.
• Conduct demonstrations and gather feedback from customers/users, stakeholders, including sales, account executives, support teams, and other relevant functions.
• Engage with users, subject matter experts, and technical peers to gather insights and align on product goals.
• Collaborate closely with roles such as Scrum Masters, UX Designers, QA, and Developers.
• Backlog Management: Own and refine the product and sprint backlog, ensuring that features, tasks, and bugs are well-documented, prioritized, and aligned with strategic objectives.
• Maintain a tactical/operational roadmap covering 3-6 months.
• Product Discovery Leadership: Lead continuous, outcome driven product discovery initiatives in coordination with the PM to identify opportunities, validate concepts, and shape future product directions.
• Solution Design and Validation: In close collaboration with the UX designer guide the team in designing, validating, and implementing solutions that meet user and business needs.
• Performance Tracking: Collaborate with the PM to analyze user behavior metrics and track product outcomes.
• Monitor team performance in terms of efficiency and effectiveness.
• Candidate Profile: Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field

Employment details

• Location : Bangalore Role Purpose: In this role, you are responsible for driving product success by focusing on achieving meaningful user outcomes and aligning with strategic business goals.
• This role is part of a cross-functional agile team, ensuring that product development is efficient and user-centric.
• The Product Owner works closely with the Product Manager, who is primarily responsible for the strategic impact and business value of the product.
• The collaboration between the product owner and product manager ensures seamless alignment between business strategy and execution.
• The Product Owner for Design Rules Service is responsible for the SKF Design Rules Service platform; hosts SKF Design rules which can be consumed by other applications and DATPro which is SKF's major software tool to calculate bearing performance.
• The development team have UX designers, testers, Mobile Application developers and back-end developers.
• Location: Bengaluru [IN]

Application details

• We serve customers and distributors directly through services like Bearing Assist mobile application and AI enabled search on skf.com and provide immediate support for product selection and troubleshooting.

About the employer

• About SKF SKF is the world leading supplier of products and solutions in the bearing business including technical support, maintenance services, condition monitoring and training.
• Our group strategy is that 25 percent of our growth should come from new products.

Additional role details

• The inherent skills and competence of our around 40,000 employees help us to fulfill our objective of creating more intelligent, sustainable and innovative customer solutions.
• SKF is a truly global company with presence in more than 130 countries, serving an extensive range of industries and customers worldwide.
• SKF started its operations in India in 1923.
• SKF has hands-on experience in over 40 industries with knowledge and a vast product portfolio across the SKF technology platforms: bearings and units, seals, lubrication systems, condition monitoring equipment, and services.
• We operate in regions – China & Northeast Asia (CNEA), Europe & Africa, India, Southeast Asia & Middle East (ISEAM), The Americas – to serve customers with speed and responsiveness.
• SKF has been in India since more than 100 years and has a pan India footprint consisting of 6 manufacturing facilities, 12 offices, a supplier network of over 300 distributors and an employee base of more than 2600 dedicated professionals.
• To know more, please visit: www.skf.com/in Innovation is the key: We make some of the world’s most innovative products and solutions to reduce friction.
• But we sell something bigger.
• Less friction means more energy saved.
• And it means that society can move forward to a more energy-efficient future where we can all do more with less.
• Sustainability: At SKF, we have a long history of working with industrial sustainability.
• It is an integral part of what we do every day.
• And we strive to create engagement throughout the business, not only by implementing sustainability on a strategic level, but also by encouraging the ideas and grass root projects initiated by our people around the world.
• About Technology Development t As a team, we're responsible for global research, technology development, product development and technology strategy.
• Filling that funnel with new and bold innovation is one of the things that we do.
• We bring customer value by combining our unique knowledge and technology in products and solutions with sustainability to develop ‘Intelligent & Clean’ solutions." - Annika Ölme, CTO and Senior Vice President, Technology Development Digital Engineering & Innovation Digital Engineering & Innovation team is an international team based in multiple countries across the globe.
• Additionally, we support customers indirectly by offering solutions such as Engineering Tools, Product Lifecycle Management, Configurators, and Design Solutions.
• Many of these are AI-enabled, secure, and compliant with industry standards.
• We collaborate with various SKF teams to create a digital ecosystem, develop innovative solutions, and enhance our entire value chain to add value to our customers SKF Purpose Statement Together, we re-imagine rotation for a better tomorrow.
• By creating intelligent and clean solutions for people and the planet JOB DESCRIPTION Job Title : Product Owner - Design Rules Service Reports To: DA Development Manager Role Type : Individual Contributor