Senior Lead Product Owner

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Overview

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As a leading global aerospace company, Boeing develops, manufactures and services commercial airplanes, defense products and space systems for customers in more than 150 countries. As a top U.S. exporter, the company leverages the talents of a global supplier base to advance economic opportunity, sustainability and community impact. Boeing’s team is committed to innovating for the future, leading with sustainability, and cultivating a culture based on the company’s core values of safety, quality and integrity.

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The Boeing India Engineering & Technology Center (BIETC) is a 5500+ engineering workforce that contributes to global aerospace growth. Our engineers deliver cutting-edge R&D, innovation, and high-quality engineering work in global markets, and leverage new-age technologies such as AI/ML, IIoT, Cloud, Model-Based Engineering, and Additive Manufacturing, shaping the future of aerospace.

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With us, you can create and contribute to what matters most in your career, community, country, and world. Join us in powering the progress of global aerospace.

Position Overview: 

Boeing Digital Services org is currently looking for a Senior Lead Product Owner to join the team in Bangalore, IN. In this role you will drive product ownership excellence across a portfolio of maintenance and flight product suits. You will establish and scale product management practices, processes, standards, and governance across the organization while providing strategic direction and coaching to Product Owners and Development teams. You will serve as a trusted advisor to product, engineering, business, technology, and executive stakeholders. You will influence outcomes across multiple teams and products without direct authority and ensure that product decisions are driven by customer value, business impact, data, risk, and delivery feasibility.

The role combines enterprise-level Product Owner responsibilities with selected Product Manager responsibilities, including portfolio strategy, market analysis, product positioning, investment planning, customer discovery, business case development, and product lifecycle management. You will work closely with Developers, Product Owners, Greenfield Leadership, Data Scientists, and Architects to deliver product features and capabilities that keep AI and ML at the center of our solutions. You will be helping create new product offerings as well as modernizing systems that have been running the business for years, while building new ones designed to run it for years to come.

Position Responsibilities:

• Define and communicate portfolio-level product vision, strategy, objectives, outcomes, and roadmaps for aviation / MRO products, platforms, and capabilities.

• Evaluate customer needs, market trends, competitive offerings, emerging technologies, and internal capabilities to identify opportunities for new products, enhancements, modernization, consolidation, or retirement.

• Establish and maintain consistent product management and product ownership practices, processes, standards, governance, templates, and decision-making frameworks across the organization.

• Provide strategic direction, mentoring, and coaching to Product Owners, Product Managers, and Business Analysts in product discovery, prioritization, backlog management, stakeholder engagement, and value delivery.

• Guide teams in translating customer and business needs into well-defined epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, non-functional requirements, and measurable outcomes.

• Lead portfolio-level prioritization and resolve cross-product dependencies, competing demands, sequencing decisions, resource constraints, and delivery trade-offs.

• Partner with customers and stakeholders to validate product concepts, business problems, solution alternatives, priorities, prototypes, and early product definitions.

• Define and monitor product and portfolio success measures, including customer satisfaction, adoption, operational performance, financial value, quality, delivery, and business outcomes.

• Represent the customer and business perspective throughout product development, Agile delivery, Program Increment planning, release planning, system demonstrations, and operational readiness activities.

• Partner with engineering, architecture, security, quality, operations, and support teams to evaluate technical options, integrations, scalability, technical debt, maintainability, resilience, and non-functional requirements.

• Communicate portfolio priorities, roadmap changes, investment recommendations, delivery progress, performance results, risks, and decisions to customers, stakeholders, and senior leadership while driving continuous improvement in product management maturity and value delivery.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor’s degree is required as basic qualification.
• 15+ years relevant experience in software development including full-stack web development, experience with modern software product development, integration, and delivery

• Experience integrating AI, ML, or LLM capabilities into software applications.

• Familiarity with AI-enabled product management tools and responsible use of generative AI for analysis, documentation, research, and decision support.

• Significant experience in Product Ownership, Product Management, business analysis, solution management, or a related discipline, including experience leading across multiple products.

• Extensive experience working in Agile and Scrum environments, including experience with SAFe, Lean Portfolio Management, Program Increment planning, and Product Owner/Product Manager responsibilities.

• Experience developing and implementing product management practices, operating models, governance frameworks, and standard processes across multiple teams or product areas.

• Demonstrated ability to coach and guide Product Owners and Product Managers in product discovery, prioritization, backlog management, stakeholder engagement, and value delivery.

• Familiarity with latest tools & technology frameworks like JavaScript, JQuery, Java/J2EE, Azure App Services / Functions, Microservices etc.

• Experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD, Configuration management, Automated testing, Monitoring and observability, Metrics and telemetry, and Infrastructure as code

• Experience with Microsoft Azure services and Azure DevOps.

• Experience with APIs, event-driven integrations, data platforms, analytics, and cloud-native architectures.

• Familiarity with Angular, React, React Native, or comparable web and mobile technologies.

• Understanding of mobile user experience principles and platform-specific design guidelines.

• Understanding of architectural styles like microservices, event-driven systems, monoliths, and serverless computing.

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Experience in Aerospace and/or Aviation and/or MRO domain is preferred

• Product management or Agile certifications such as: Certified Scrum Product Owner, SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager, SAFe Product Management

• Experience leading product management transformation, product operating model implementation, or Agile-at-scale adoption.

• Experience managing enterprise platforms, digital products, software ecosystems, or products involving complex integrations.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across Product, Design, Engineering, and Operations to translate ambiguous business needs into clear technical solutions and measurable outcomes.

• Demonstrated ability to coach and uplift other engineers through pairing, code review, technical mentorship, and knowledge sharing.

Typical Education & Experience:

• Education/experience typically acquired through advanced education (e.g. Bachelor) and typically 16 + years’ related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience (e.g. Master 15+ Years ) related in computer science, aerospace or other closely related field.

Relocation:

This position does offer relocation within INDIA.

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