Senior Product Owner – Insurance Domain

Union Beach, NJ 

Full Time

Position Overview

Lead product strategy, roadmap, backlog management, and Agile delivery for digital products in the insurance industry. Translate business needs and insurance workflows into clear requirements while driving stakeholder alignment, user adoption, and continuous product improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Define product vision, strategy, roadmap, and measurable business outcomes.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders and users to identify needs, pain points, and improvement opportunities.

• Lead discovery workshops, process mapping, and requirements-gathering sessions.

• Translate business requirements into epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional specifications.

• Own and prioritize the product backlog based on business value, risk, dependencies, and customer impact.

• Partner with engineering, UX, QA, and data teams to deliver product capabilities through Agile/Scrum.

• Review deliverables, validate acceptance criteria, and support UAT, release readiness, training, and adoption.

• Communicate priorities, risks, dependencies, and product progress to business and technical stakeholders.

• Analyze data flows, integrations, data quality, and exception handling.

• Leverage AI tools to improve requirements gathering, backlog management, and decision-making.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or Business Product Lead.

• Strong insurance domain knowledge, including policies, endorsements, renewals, claims, underwriting, premiums, billing, and client servicing.

• Proven experience in product strategy, roadmap development, and backlog prioritization.

• Strong expertise in Agile/Scrum, user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional requirements.

• Experience facilitating workshops, process mapping, stakeholder discussions, and decision-making sessions.

• Understanding of data mapping, APIs, integrations, transformation rules, and exception management.

• Excellent communication, analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.

• Proficiency with AI tools, Microsoft Office, and Visio or equivalent process-mapping tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Insurance brokerage or commercial insurance experience.

• Familiarity with policy administration, CRM, billing, document management, and client-servicing platforms.

• Experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, Salesforce, or Sagitta.

• SQL knowledge for data validation and analysis.

• Technical background in software development, data platforms, or systems integration.

• Relevant Product Owner, Agile/Scrum, insurance, or business analysis certifications.

Success Criteria

• Roadmaps aligned with measurable business outcomes.

• Clear, prioritized, development-ready requirements.

• Successful product delivery, quality, and user adoption.