Principal Product Owner

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Job Description:

The Product Owner will play a critical role on our Strategic Implementation team in designing, building, delivering, and testing leading technology or service solutions of large scale and high complexity that are innovative, efficient, creative, scalable, adaptable and comply with all standards and best practices in support of business and Client objectives. You will partner with team members and other project’s key stakeholders across the business to bring ideas from inception to delivery. The ideal candidate is an experienced Product Owner and a highly motivated team player with a strong desire to learn, grow, and continuously improve while helping our clients achieve their lifetime financial security.

We will expect you to:

• Work with project sponsors and business leaders to understand and prioritize business objectives and measures aligned with product or service development.
• Define the product and service roadmap and vision in terms of features capabilities.
• Drive the stakeholder process to ensure consistent understanding of features/capabilities, prioritization, trade-offs, etc. and to achieve desired business outcomes.
• Work collaboratively with user experience, product marketing, business/IT partners and others to ensure successful release and adoption of features/capabilities.
• Perform required activities (documentation, training, presentations, wikis, knowledgebases, etc.) to ensure successful launch, marketing, and adoption of features/capabilities.
• Structure and perform appropriate market research directly or working with partners. For example, industry research, user interviews, surveys, data analysis, SWOT analysis, competitor analysis, etc.
• Define initial scope or minimal viable product (MVP) for area of responsibility.
• Lead and/or conduct brainstorming sessions (design thinking/etc.).
• Balances scope, complexity, risk, and costs.
• When necessary, work in conjunction with the technical support team to triage and assess production issues, perform impact analysis, and provide support to the engineering team to bring issues to resolution.
• Be flexible and able to take on and learn new topic areas quickly, run with project assignments independently, but know when to ask questions.
• Be a team player with a strong work ethic and a desire to succeed.

Qualifications

• Four or more years of professional experience working in an IT product-owner role.
• Bachelor's or master’s degree in business management or technical field is preferred.
• An agile development practitioner with strong experience using tools such as Jira and Confluence to create user stories and author product documentation.
• Solid persuasion and negotiation skills. Ability to align people around a common purpose and goal.
• Solid communication skills, ability to produce material that is complete, concise, and easy to understand.
• Strong problem solving and systems thinking skills, ability to break low-to-medium complexity problems into logic parts.
• Ability to manage through unknowns and deal with moderate levels of ambiguity.
• Ability to conduct user interviews, create interview scripts, and consolidate findings.
• Flexible to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment in a professional and timely manner.
• Self-starter that can work independently and part of a team.
• Excellent verbal, presentation, and written communication skills
• Experience in Life Insurance, workflow management and policy life cycle capabilities is a plus.
• Experience in data, data exchanges and data management another plus.

Job Category:

Product Owner

Posting End Date:

24/10/2024