Product Owner
United States
Insurity’s Next Product Owner
Insurity is looking for a hardworking and driven product owner to help innovate and implement product initiatives for our Insurity Geospatial solutions. This person will be instrumental in shaping the future of our product suite through product definition, thoughtful client engagement, and active collaboration with the development team. We are looking for someone who puts clients first, likes the challenge of defining feature sets that improve client business value, and relishes the opportunity to serve the needs of the extended development team to build phenomenal products with speed and quality. You will work closely with our clients, development team, and customer success team to ensure that the products remain on the cutting edge of innovation.What Our Product Owner Will Do
- Works closely with Product Manager to translate product vision, strategy, and roadmap to epics and stories delivered through sprints and releases
- Collaborate with stakeholders on feature requirements and scope for release planning
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure consensus on sprint priorities and scope of proposed enhancements
- Determine whether new features can be released, accountable for the clean release of features
- Work with stakeholders and scrum team leads to clarify scope and coordinate estimates for pre-sales projects
- Identify business requirements and work with BAs to codify into well-defined stories and supporting artifacts that define the “what” and “why” for the scrum teams.
- Ensure solutions built by the scrum team align to stakeholder expectations
- Facilitate refinement sessions with the scrum team and ensure sprints are well planned
- Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
- Demonstration of strong product owner skills and advanced knowledge of insurance software development
- Commercial and/or Personal Lines Insurance knowledge is highly desired
- Experience using scaled agile development framework and environments
- Strong planning, communication, and presentation abilities needed
- Ability to work with a remote and international scrum teams in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Analytical and critical thinking, data-driven
- Strong operational mindset, decisive, “get it done” mentality
- Written and oral English communication
- Time management including work planning, prioritization, and organization
- Ability to handle multiple priorities or tasks
- Self-starter and quick learner
- Detail-oriented
- Active listener
- Ability to collaborate and work autonomously
- Flexible and adaptable
- Process analysis, design, and management
- Change management
- Ability to accurately present information
- Meeting facilitation and management
- Recommended 2+ years as a Product Owner or Business Analyst
- Recommended Bachelor’s degree and/or relevant work experience
- Some travel required (10%)
- Flex First Workforce: Do your work best from home or from one of our office locations; it’s your choice.
- Generous Time Off: Our leadership believes in taking the time you need when you need it through our Open PTO Policy.
- Day One Health Benefits + Employer-Matched Retirement Savings: You might think these are table stakes, but we know these matter to you.
- More Than Just Core Values: Our values are fundamental in how we attract, train, and retain top talent.
- Award-Winning Onboarding Program: We set you up from the get-go to make a significant impact from Day One and follow you through your entire first year.
- Real Career Growth Opportunities: We love to promote from within with over 20% of our open roles filled through internal applicants on average.
- Mentorship Program: We support a champion culture and growth mindset by pairing you with experienced, talented leaders to help you grow personally and professionally.
- Internal Networking: Build relationships, network, collaborate, and stay connected with colleagues internally with our one-of-a kind online Coffee for Two program.
- Continuous Learning Opportunities: Own your development with your own LinkedIn Learning and Kaplan licenses.
- Discounted University Tuition: Employees and their families can start or continue their university career with less out-of-pocket investment through our partnerships with the University of Arizona Global Campus.
- Employee Referral Bonus: Once you come onboard, give Insurity the biggest compliment you can give by referring someone to work here and earn a cash bonus.
Job Profile
Award-winning onboarding Award-winning onboarding program Career growth opportunities Collaborative environment Continuous learning opportunities Employer-matched retirement savings Generous time off Health benefits Internal networking Mentorship Program Professional development Professional development opportunities Retirement savings
Tasks- Build relationships
- Collaborate with product manager
- Engage with stakeholders for feature requirements
- Facilitate refinement sessions
- Manage backlog and sprint planning
- Translate product vision to epics and stories
Agile Analytical Backlog Management C Communication Critical thinking Data analysis Insurance Software Development Insurance Technology Mentorship Planning Presentation Product Management Sales Scrum Stakeholder engagement Time Management User Story Development
Experience3 years
TimezonesAmerica/Anchorage America/Chicago America/Denver America/Los_Angeles America/New_York Pacific/Honolulu UTC-10 UTC-5 UTC-6 UTC-7 UTC-8 UTC-9