Product Owner

The Product Owner serves as a member of the team responsible for the implementation of our Insurance Analytics Platform (IAP) which helps enable Suite implementation. This position will drive the execution and delivery of all back-end data requirements for the IAP/suite project to ensure we are building an optimal experience for our internal users, insureds, and agency partners.  This position will be part of a dedicated project team focused entirely building and replacing our financial back end.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Participates in planning for the product vision, roadmaps, releases, etc.
• Maintain the team backlog content with input from other stakeholders (backlog refinement).
• Reviews and prioritizes the team backlog as part of the prep work for Sprint Planning.
• Communicates story details and priority to the team to ensure alignment on the final sprint plan.
• Manage dependencies across development teams to accomplish broader business objectives.
• Collaborates with the team to detail stories with acceptance criteria and examples of acceptance tests.
• Accountable to accept user stories upon completion and assures a level of quality with completed work.
• Works with the team to agree on accepted story completion and assures a level of quality.
• Responsible for engagement and collaboration with vendors with the assistance of the team Project Manager as dictated by the project scope.
• Understand the scope of enabler work and collaborate with architects/engineering to assist with decision-making and sequencing of these enablers.
• Collaborate with the team/stakeholders in the team demo. Responsible for producing the team demos.

QUALIFICATIONS:

ESSENTIAL:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, IS/Computer Science, or equivalent area of study.
• 3 years’ experience working as a Product Owner in Agile software development environments.
• Strong oral and written communication.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively, build a team, and foster positive relationships.
• Ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines, and maintain work quality.
• Basic understanding of data development/architecture

PREFERRED:

• Software development, requirements management, and collaboration tool(s) experience. (ADO, SharePoint, JIRA preferred)
• Product Owner Certifications such as PSPO, CSPO, POPM, etc.
• 1-2 years of experience in the P&C Insurance industry
• Experience with Duck Creek’s core product suite