Principal Product Owner

Overview

Waters Corporation is currently seeking an individual to join our organization as a Principal Product Owner supporting our Cloud Platform/Ecosystem products within the Lab and Data Management software portfolio. The successful candidate will collaborate as part of a team to deliver foundational platform features which underpin the success of our cloud software products. This role will be in Brasov (Romania) or Wilmslow (U.K.).

 

In this role you will work very closely with development teams to facilitate translation of the user and business needs, for key areas of our cloud platform, into on market products.

We are looking for a Principal Product Owner who, in addition to working closely with development teams, will collaborate with other product owners, researchers, designers, and stakeholders across the business to solve complex problems with elegant solutions.  We want to find someone who will become an advocate for our users and be steadfast in seeking ways to deliver products that exceed their expectations.

Responsibilities

• Perform problem analysis such that the user and product requirements are articulated clearly and understood by the team so that the right product is delivered.
• Execute and lead on key areas of the platform roadmap as set out by the Product Manager / Lead Product Owner.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, UX designers and evaluators to define and refine backlog items, ensuring requirements are well understood, technically feasible, testable, measurable, and sufficiently detailed to support estimation, implementation and validation by the Scrum Team.
• Actively participate in backlog refinement activities, helping the team decompose epics and features into appropriately sized, deliverable backlog items.
• Encourage iterative delivery by helping the team identify feature increments that can be delivered and validated with users.
• Ensure that engineering themes, user experience and technical debt are included and prioritised within the product backlog.
• Participate in regular retrospective reviews with assigned agile development teams to ensure that lessons are learned and appropriate changes are made to adapt and improve, supporting continuous improvement during development.

 

Qualifications

Education

 

• Degree level education, or equivalent, preferably in a science or IT related discipline.

 

Experience

 

• Proven experience of working in an agile, matrixed environment
• Knowledge of Waters products, applications and business processes.
• Knowledge of successful cloud / SaaS software product roll out and deployment.
• Proven record of product delivery in a Product Owner or Business Analyst role and knowledge of the software development process, especially Agile.
• Understanding of domain-orientated architecture and application of APIs.
• Experience in delivering software to regulated customers (preferred)
• Experience in working with Agentic software development (preferred)

 

Competencies

• Proactive, confident, dynamic and acts with integrity.
• Displays excellent organization skills
• Committed to the product; is passionate about the product.
• Displays openness, rigor, and clarity of thought.
• Communicates clearly, and consistently to a range of stakeholders.