Product Owner (open to remote)

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The Product Owner is the member of the team responsible for defining and prioritizing the Team Backlog so as to streamline the execution of program priorities, while maintaining conceptual and technical integrity of the features or components the team is responsible for. The Product Owner has a significant role in quality and is the only team member empowered to “accept” new stories. This is a critical role and typically requires one PO to support one (sometimes two) Agile teams

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a voice to project the expectations of customers on new or already existing products
• Highlight product features in a manner clearly understandable to the development team
• Manage and develop product backlog, as well as user stories backlog for implementation
• Conduct backlog grooming meetings with a team of product owners
• Attend sprint planning and demo meetings to give feedback on sprint achievement, as well as to scrum team
• Monitor the progress of product development, as well as plan for product release
• Contact customers and end users to obtain information on expected product features
• Provide reports to update management and stakeholders on product development operations
• Analyze customer opinions and feedback to determine features or components that will add good value to a product
• Assess product value stream to identify areas that require improvements
• Measure product performance as well as value delivered to clients in order to make adjustments where necessary
• Develop and implement action plans for building and sustaining demand for a product
• Ensure implemented product features add value to end users and meet strategic expectations

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of underwriting, operational support, project management and/or experience.
• College degree preferred.
• Agile delivery experience a plus.
• Strong working knowledge of insurance related systems knowledge a plus.
• Ability to work on multiple initiatives simultaneously while maintaining a vision of priority and order of success.
• Demonstrated team player, with strong verbal and written skills who can build relationships with both underwriting …