HireX is the North American leader for People Solutions. A key player in the contingent staffing market, HireX provides unrivalled expertise in matching top talent with the most sought after North American employers.
Title: Senior\Lead Product owner
Location: Irving or Dallas, TX
Mode: Onsite only
Interview process General interview Tech interview Manager interview Client interview
WHAT YOU LL DO:
Requirements Gathering: Engage with business stakeholders to capture detailed requirements. Understand the business context, compliance implications, and user impact of every request.
Story Writing: Translate business requirements into clear, actionable user stories with specific, testable acceptance criteria. Ensure stories include the what and why so technical teams can determine the how.
Backlog Management: Maintain and prioritize the team backlog in Azure DevOps. Ensure stories are groomed, well-defined, and sequenced by business value.
Technical Collaboration: Partner with Tech Leads during story review to ensure technical completeness. If the Tech Lead identifies architecture implications, flag the story for architecture review.
Acceptance & Validation: Accept completed work against acceptance criteria (Level 1 validation). For bug fixes that impacted stakeholders, follow up post-deployment for stakeholder confirmation (Level 2). For new external-facing features, compliance changes, and financial calculations, conduct formal UAT with stakeholders (Level 3).
Compliance Tracking: For compliance-flagged work, confirm filing dates, effective dates, and regulatory deadlines. Build timelines backward from hard deadlines and track throughout the delivery cycle.
Stakeholder Communication: Provide progress updates, sprint demos, and release communications to business stakeholders. Maintain transparency on delivery status and timeline changes.
Continuous Improvement: Pursue Product Owner certification if not already held. Attend training to sharpen requirements gathering, story writing, and backlog management skills.
WHAT WE RE LOOKING FOR:
Education: Bachelor s degree or equivalent insurance industry or software product experience.
Analytical Skills: Strong ability to dig into business processes, ask the right questions, and produce precise requirements.
Documentation: Excellent written documentation skills. Ability to produce clear, detailed user stories and business requirements documents.
Communication: Proven ability to engage stakeholders, clarify priorities, and gain alignment across business and technical teams.
Tools: Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps or similar agile tools for backlog management.
Insurance Knowledge: Familiarity with insurance operations, products, or technology is strongly preferred.
Technical Curiosity: Comfortable learning new systems, APIs, and data flows to become the domain expert for your stream.
CSPO, PSPO, or SAFe Product Owner certification preferred.
Regards
Gulshan
HireX
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