Product Owner

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Job Title: Product Owner
Contract: 7+ Months
Remote Work

Job ref# 241421

Job Duties:

• Represents business stakeholders to elicit, understand, analyze, document, refine and communicate business needs, so that business and/or technical delivery teams can build effective solutions.
• Utilizes a proficient understanding of customer needs, as well as business vision and strategy, to prioritize investment, business value and delivery.
• Works within multiple evolving development methodologies including iterative Agile and sequential Waterfall programs and projects, and variations thereof.
• Serves as the business requirements expert, engaging and managing the work of subject matter specialists from the business.
• Serves as the day to day decision maker and provides continual business guidance for the execution team.
• Prioritizes the execution team's work so that it aligns with the sponsor's/business executive's strategies.
• Leads, manages or orchestrates activities for completion and proper documentation of business requirements and validating metrics as appropriate for methodology and Enterprise controls.
• Works with the business and IT delivery teams to identify and mitigate risks to include business operational risks.
• Escalates issues and develops and recommends appropriate solutions.
• Works with different technologies (infrastructure, mobile, MSR-facing), and/or with vendor partnerships or software.
• Serves as a subject matter resource in a particular business or system domain, as necessary.
• Identifies, engages and influences business stakeholders and Subject Matter Experts.
• Works with business and Enterprise stakeholders to understand and validate business strategy and vision, and customer needs.
• Partners with sponsors, stakeholders, and IT to facilitate, define and document relevant business processes, gaining a proficient understanding of the needs, measures, and risks & controls for the improvement area.
• Serves as direct representative of the business with delivery teams, representing/reinforcing the customers' perspective throughout the product realization cycle.
• Works with the business process owners to develop metrics to manage and track benefits, adoption and risks to operations.
• Assists with project level plans related to schedule, scope and resources.
• Leads, collaborates with, and motivates a cross-functional team of user experience partners, designers, business analysts, developers, testers and others to develop, execute and release in alignment with program and/or product roadmaps.
• Manages, prioritizes, and assesses the impact of all work items, such as new features, defects, etc., including providing the decision to create, fix or defer at the project level.
• Reviews, and when appropriate, accepts and prioritizes feedback and new requirements from stakeholder.
• Reviews and accepts or declines output of development to ensure specified acceptance criteria have been completed.
• Prepares the business for the change and arms them with tactics and metrics for benefits, adoption, and risk.
• Assists with coaching less experienced DPOs and team members

Required Skills:

• Property & Casualty Insurance Experience 3-5 Years
• Agile Methodology 1-3 Years
• Financial Data Experience 1-3 Years
• Jira, Rally, GuideWire

Daily Duties:

• Lead a team to ensure successful delivery of PI initiatives for transitioning to a new P&C policy administration system. Main tools used will be Jira, Rally and GuideWire.
• Ensure property and casualty financial events are processed completely and accurately from operational source and sent to downstream integrating partners.