Product Owner

Role & Responsibilities:

• Own product vision and strategy for P&C insurance products and platforms, translating enterprise and portfolio strategy into a clear, value-driven product roadmap.
• Act as the voice of the business and customer, partnering with underwriting, actuarial, compliance, and technology teams to gather insights and define well-scoped problems, desired outcomes, and measurable success criteria.
• Own and continuously prioritize the product backlog, authoring clear, testable user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Define, track, and be accountable for product KPIs, work with cross functional teams to meet the goals.
• Collaborate daily with engineering teams, architects, actuaries, and data teams to clarify requirements, remove blockers, and ensure delivery aligns with business, regulatory, and underwriting outcomes.
• Lead quarterly planning, sprint planning, and backlog refinement with cross-functional squads and stakeholders, setting clear expectations on scope, timelines, and dependencies.
• Coordinate across multiple portfolios and product teams to identify existing capabilities (rating engines, underwriting services, policy administration), promote reuse, and surface capability gaps to reduce duplication.
• Coordinate production releases by managing the deployment of code to production, ensuring timely and accurate delivery of new features to business stakeholders.
• Partner with enterprise and solution architects to understand system impacts, data flows, and dependencies across rating, underwriting, policy systems etc.
• Assess feasibility, cost-of-delay, regulatory impact, and business value for proposed enhancements; influence prioritization decisions using data and insurance domain knowledge.
• Setting priorities and actively participating in team planning and scrum ceremonies
• Working daily with the agile working group, clarifying business requirements, removing roadblocks, constantly communicating, and supporting alignment around product strategy
• Identify the relationships, dependencies and impacts of change (highlighting options) on multiple systems and processes
• Contribute to the project as required to develop proposals, requirements or other project documentation.
• Elicit further requirements and test / challenge assumptions using a variety of methods including interviews, document analysis, workshops and business process descriptions
• Contribute to the Business Solutions Team development of standards / methodology for capturing and publishing business processes, requirements and other documentation
• Defining and documenting epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, etc. for complex solutions
• Work effectively as part of a project team alongside the Senior Product Owner, Scrum master and delivery team
• Ensure product features and releases comply with P&C regulatory requirements, rate-filing constraints, auditability, data privacy, and industry standards; negotiate priorities to maintain compliance without sacrificing value.
• Contribute to team sprint planning and set expectations for delivery of new capabilities, features, and functionalities.
• Participate in team demos, retrospectives, and all other ceremonies.

• Accountable for developing and achieving product level KPIs. Manages product(s) (data products) with a moderate degree of strategy, scope, and complexity.
• Collaborate with technology and business leadership to align system/application integrations in line with business goals and priorities. Resolve open issues/questions quickly and efficiently.
• Set expectations with stakeholders for delivery of new capabilities, features, and functionalities. Participates in team demos, retrospectives, and all other ceremonies.
• Monitor and maintain the product health, supporting long-term product viability and efficiency, and balancing long and short term and costs with desired outcomes.
• Analyze and report on feasibility, cost of delay ramifications, economies, or other aspects of planned or potential changes to the product.

Candidate Profile:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field; Master's degree preferred.
• Considerable relevant industry or functional experience in P&C insurance
• Proven experience (5+ years) as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or similar role
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban, and experience working in Agile environments.
• Technical fluency to partner effectively with architects and engineers (systems thinking, dependencies, integration points).
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with the ability to prioritize competing demands effectively.
• Exceptional communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across teams.
• Strong Presentation and leadership skills
• Experience with product management tools such as JIRA, Trello, or Asana, and proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Agile practitioner capabilities and experience working with or in Agile teams
• Strong team-work, co-ordination, organization and planning skills
• Ability to capture complex requirements in a prioritized backlog

Originally posted on Himalayas