Product Owner

Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here:

At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you’re trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That’s why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry.

Job Description:

About Crowe Applied AI & Machine Learning

Everything we do is about making the future of human work more purposeful. We do this by leveraging state-of-the-art machine learning, modern architectures, and industry experts, to create AI-powered solutions that transform the way we do business.

Our world-class AI and ML professionals give Crowe the ability to capture and harness the power of data. A combination of Machine Learning Engineers and DevOps Engineers create and deploy AI functionality to solve complex problems. We focus on building scalable AI products, based on rigorous data exploration, validation via proof-of-concept buildout, and close partnership with subject matter experts across business areas.

The future is powered by AI, come build it with us.

About the Team

• We foster good science. You are given the time and resources to build your expertise in your project and beyond; you will guide team members and product stakeholders through your work.

• We want to make good scientists better. There are plenty of machine learning options on the job market. We want to be one of the best. We have regular ethics and book club meetings, monthly lightning talks where team members teach each other, support for conferences, and weekly “10P” independent time for ongoing learning.

• We truly value work-life balance. Our distributed team offers a flexible work-from-home policy.

About the Role

• As a Product Owner, you will be instrumental in defining and managing the product requirements for development teams working on Crowe AI solutions, bridging the gap between business needs and technical execution to ensure that our Generative AI solutions are aligned with Crowe’s strategic goals and deliver exceptional value.

• Managing the product backlog, ensuring items are relevant, prioritized, and ordered.  

• Ensuring your team’s backlog health meets the standards the team has agreed upon. 

• Collaborating between stakeholders and the development team to create well thought-out Product Goals. 

• Collaborating with your development team by articulating the business’s wants and needs, so that they, in turn, can create well thought-out backlog items that will help them achieve those goals in an iterative solution. 

• Managing stakeholder expectations and proactively communicating changes, tradeoffs, and updates to the roadmap. 

• Gathering feedback on completed items and using that feedback to update and maintain the product backlog and determine when items are ready to be released. 

• Determining and analyzing metrics to measure stakeholder satisfaction and value delivered after a feature is released.  

• Cultivating an inclusive work environment, allowing everyone to freely speak their mind and collaborate on the work to be done. 

• Acting as the voice of your customers/users. 

• Leading your development team in a professional manner, being their advocate, protecting their time, and giving them opportunities to shine. Encouraging innovation amongst your team. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in data science, computer science, MIS, Information Systems or engineering fields, or equivalent experience.  

• 5+ years of relevant experience working as a Business Analyst, Scrum Team Member, or other IT related role. At least 2 of the 5 years working in the role of a Business Analyst or Product Owner or equivalent role. 

• In-depth understanding of Product Development and Software Development Life Cycles, preferably experienced working with machine learning solutions in a production environment.

• Understanding how to translate business wants and needs into technical specifications (i.e. User Stories, Features, Acceptance Criteria, Etc.). 

• Experience working with backlog management, collaboration, and visualization tools. 

• Working knowledge of story mapping, release planning, and road mapping. 

• Experience working on a project with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities or initiatives.  

• Excellent organizational skills with a self-starter mentality and resourcefulness in solving problems to ensure teams have what they need to deliver. 

• Product Owner certification required (i.e. CSPO, PSPO). 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, capable of managing conflicting perspectives and ambiguous requirements.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, adept at building consensus and facilitating collaboration among diverse stakeholders.

• Background or strong interest in data science and machine learning, enhancing your ability to understand and communicate the technical aspects of the product.

• Agile methodology experience, with participation in sprint planning, retrospectives, and ideation sessions.

• Should be comfortable to work in 5:00 PM - 2:00 AM time.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with AI agent-building tools such as Langchain, LlamaIndex (Agent Workflow), Vellum, Copilot Studio, or similar platforms

• Demonstrates a passion for generative AI, actively staying informed about the latest advancements, trends, and applications in the field.

• Product Management or Scaled Agile (SAFe) training or certification a plus. 

We expect the candidate to uphold Crowe’s values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship. These values define who we are. We expect all of our people to act ethically and with integrity at all times.

Our Benefits:
At Crowe, we know that great people are what makes a great firm. We value our people and offer employees a comprehensive benefits package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you!

How You Can Grow:
We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations. Learn more about where talent can prosper!

More about Crowe:

Crowe Horwath IT Services Private Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Crowe LLP (U.S.A.), a public accounting, consulting and technology firm with offices around the world. Crowe LLP is an independent member firm of Crowe Global, one of the largest global accounting networks in the world. The network consists of more than 200 independent accounting and advisory firms in more than 130 countries around the world.

Crowe does not accept unsolicited candidates, referrals or resumes from any staffing agency, recruiting service, sourcing entity or any other third-party paid service at any time. Any referrals, resumes or candidates submitted to Crowe, or any employee or owner of Crowe without a pre-existing agreement signed by both parties covering the submission will be considered the property of Crowe, and free of charge.