At EMC, we’re all about working together to make an impact. As part of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to grow, contribute, and gain experience that matters. We strive to be caring leaders, close partners, and responsive experts—always supporting each other to do our best work. Join us, and let’s improve lives together.
Essential Functions:
- Drives the complex product development effort within a dedicated team to create a product that generates desired benefits.
- Leads the generation and management of work to be completed by the development team.
- Optimizes the value of work performed by the team and ensures stakeholders understand the overall product strategy and product roadmap by maintaining and ensuring the product roadmap and product backlog are visible to all those involved with the product.
- Collaborates daily with the business and IT to refine, organize and prioritize requests in accordance with corporate strategies and goals.
- Creates and modifies the product vision, creates user stories and acceptance criteria, grooms the product backlog, plans releases and attends Scrum ceremonies.
- Coordinates all user acceptance testing (UAT) within each Sprint.
- Accepts the product increment by ensuring that the acceptance criteria of the story is met.
- Makes decisions that determine the profitability of the product (ROI).
- Ensures team is working on items that will deliver maximum value and are aligned with product vision.
- Provides input and guidance to the portfolio team on the current and future state of the product roadmap.
- Develops appropriately detailed specifications for product features and ensures they are clearly understood by the team.
- Motivates the team to deliver innovative solutions with an appropriate sense of urgency.
- Acts as an ambassador for the product internally and externally, and as the primary technical contact for queries related to the product.
- Works with key stakeholders across the company to ensure successful product releases.
- Maintains market awareness of third-party solutions to improve speed of delivery and efficiencies.
- Maintains third party relationships and evaluates vendor solutions for integration into EMC capabilities.
- Gathers and documents feedback from the users to improve their overall customer experience.
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience
- Five years of experience in the field of IT projects, business analysis or equivalent subject matter expertise in applicable business field, including two years of experience as a product owner or similar role in the industry
- Experience in an Agile software development environment or related experience preferred
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or Certified Scrum Master (CSM) preferred
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Strong understanding of the Scrum framework and Agile development techniques
- Excellent business knowledge to lead development in coordination with all of the stakeholders
- Strong ability to produce concrete product features and subsequent roadmap while collaborating to drive implementation
- Strong understanding of the importance of efficient story writing and acceptance test-driven development
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
- Good knowledge of project management software, such as JIRA
- Excellent leadership and organizational skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong ability to prioritize work and pivot focus as issues arise
The hiring salary range for this position will vary based on geographic location, falling within either the $83,925 - $115,647 range or $92,509 - $127,495 range. A hiring range represents a subset of the full salary range. The actual salary will depend on several factors, including relevant education, skills, and experience of an applicant, geographic location, and business needs.
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EMC Insurance Companies is among the top 60 insurance organizations in the country based on net written premium, and we have more than 2,500 employees. The company was organized in 1911 to write workers’ compensation protection in Iowa. Today, EMC provides property and casualty insurance products and services throughout the United States and writes reinsurance contracts worldwide. Operating under the trade name EMC Insurance Companies, Employers Mutual Casualty Company and one or more of its affiliated companies is licensed in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
