Product Owner

Description

As a Small Commercial Software Product PO, you will define the strategic vision for our Software Product, identifying, prioritizing, and delivering the capabilities that matter most to customers and the business. In this role you will work closely with stakeholders (both business and technology) prioritizing work to align our platform security & stability needs with key business functionality enabling Small Commercial insurance product delivery to market. As a champion of software product configuration, you'll drive configuration-first solutions and reusable practices that improve delivery efficiency and scale across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborates to create product vision and alignment with strategic priorities with stakeholders. Contributes to the development of the portfolio and platform vision. Communicates product and portfolio vision to their squad/team and other squads/teams outside their portfolio/functional area.
• With the squad/team, collaboratively accountable for developing and achieving product-level KPIs. Manages product(s) with a moderate degree of strategy, scope, and complexity.
• Owns and maintains the product backlog and is accountable for its contents and prioritization. Accountable for clear, actionable user stories that reflect both business and technical priorities.
• Sets priorities and actively participates in squad/team quarterly planning
• Sets expectations with stakeholders for delivery of new capabilities, features, and functionalities. Participates in squad/team demos, retrospectives, and all other ceremonies.
• Works daily with the agile working group, clarifying business and technical requirements, removing roadblocks, constantly communicating, and supporting alignment around product strategy.
• Collaborates with IT and business leadership to align development and business goals and priorities while working with stakeholders and squad/team to remove roadblocks to execution. Resolves open issues/questions quickly and efficiently.
• Monitors and maintains the product health, supporting long-term product viability and efficiency, and balancing long- and short-term costs with desired outcomes.
• Analyzes and reports on feasibility, cost of delay ramifications, economies, or other aspects of planned or potential changes to the product.
• Understands regulatory, compliance, and other industry constraints on the product and prioritizes accordingly. Negotiates with internal and external squads/teams to ensure priorities are aligned across squads/teams both within and outside the portfolio.
• Collaboratively builds the squad/team product roadmap, contributes to strategy inputs from stakeholders. May contribute to program/portfolio level planning. Influences stakeholder expectations for delivery of new capabilities, features, and functionalities.
• Communicates expected value and any changes in value to be delivered in each iteration (sprint, monthly, quarterly, etc.) based on the squad/team-determined capacity.
• Leads customer-driven design and usability testing for the squad/team. Collaborates on CDD and UT across the portfolio. Ensures a well-positioned product through market & industry analysis.
• Advocates for platform and technical needs, including infrastructure, scalability, and architectural decisions. Able to defend or deprioritize technical work based on strategic value

• Will have Small Commercial insurance experience, preferred.
• Strategic mindset: converts goals into prioritized roadmaps that drive measurable outcomes
• Comfortable with ambiguity: makes timely, evidence-based decisions and iterates quickly.
• Clear communicator: translates technical trade-offs into business impact and aligns teams.
• Data-driven: uses analytics and user insights to define success and prioritize work.

• Knowledge of Agile development methodologies and IT project management as typically acquired through a Bachelors` degree in relevant field (business, computer science, humanities etc.) and a minimum of 3 to 5 years direct experience with agile teams as well as 7 years in business, technology, or consulting.
• Able to depict and explain the importance of complex ideas, issues and designs to varied audiences; educate SBU/department(s) on business vision and plan and the impact of change.
• Able to influence a diverse group of stakeholders; strong leadership skills.
• Able to make difficult and quick decisions daily.
• Strong problem solver with demonstrated ability to lead a team to push the solutions and progress.
• Experience in the insurance industry preferred.
• Knowledge of relevant products and portfolio preferred.
• Strong experimental mindset to drive innovation amongst uncertainty.

• California
• Los Angeles Incorporated
• Los Angeles Unincorporated
• Philadelphia
• San Francisco