Product Owner

We are seeking a highly skilled Product Owner with expertise into P&C Insurance, writing User Stories.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with business line leadership to deeply understand business processes and customer experience. Identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that deliver on the business line's vision and strategy. Improve customer efficiency, and experience, and drive growth.
• Create buy-in for the product vision both within the business line and outside stakeholders.
• Map processes from current to future state, define business and tech. requirements by writing detailed user stories, and proactively champion change to stakeholders.
• Analyze customer needs, current market trends, and potential partnerships from an ROI and build-vs.-buy perspective.
• Work with stakeholder teams across business lines, other Product Owners (to develop necessary analysis and requirements documentation (User Stories). Divide the requirement into well-organized user stories
• Partner with the technical development team in explaining the user stories and clarifying requirements in the daily scrum call.
• Serve as thought leader for technical business requirement processes.
• Scope and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact. Manage the product lifecycle. Use Agile framework.
• Assist business stakeholders with testing of the system and analyze data flows for process improvement opportunities.
• Develop, implement, and maintain production timelines across multiple business lines and Product Owners.

Required Skills:

• Experienced product owner/manager who has created products that user love to use.
• Ability to write requirements in User Stories for the development team and walking the team through the requirements. Developing an end-to-end vision of the application to be developed. Ability to break complex requirements into user stories.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills and the ability to interact with a diverse group of team members, including executives, managers, IT professionals, and subject matter experts. Relationship building through integrity and trust.
• Proven ability to facilitate requirement workshops/training sessions with large groups of business users and leadership. Ability to think through requirements and identify missing requirements and User Stories
• Ability and proven experience to translate stakeholder requirements into technical specifications/stories that can be used for development, breaking down technical complexities so that they can be easily understood by business units and technical teams.
• Experience in process mapping, group facilitation, data gathering and analysis, and phases of the project life cycle (requirements gathering, design, development, deployment, training, and measuring effectiveness.)
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills. A good understanding of the Agile framework.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite: Including Visio, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Self-directed, and takes ownership requiring minimal supervision while achieving consistent, timely delivery of objectives.
• Technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and/or web technologies is a big plus.
• The ability to write SQL to query tables to perform data analysis is a plus.
• Familiarity Dev Ops, Jira, Salesforce, and Sagitta is a big plus.
• 7+ years' experience as a proven product owner.
• Must have familiarity with the Insurance industry.