The Role
Owns the vision, roadmap, backlog, prioritization, and KPIs for data products. Collaborates with stakeholders, data scientists, engineers, designers, and leadership to define requirements, build capabilities, maintain data governance and quality, and align integrations with business goals. Facilitates Agile ceremonies, removes roadblocks, communicates delivery expectations, evaluates feasibility and costs, and ensures regulatory and compliance considerations are addressed.
Summary Generated by Built In
- Collaborate with stakeholders (Domain Lead(Ops, IT, Data leads)) to understand the business needs and shape the vision and roadmap for data-driven initiatives to alignment with strategic priorities.
- Contributes to the development of the program vision. Communicates product and portfolio vision to their team.
- Work with data scientists, engineers, and designers to ensure that products get built efficiently, meet user needs, and provide actionable insights.
- Analyze data sources, data technologies and vendors providing data services to leverage in the data product roadmap development; Create necessary ER diagrams, data models, PRD/BRD to convey requirements
- Accountable for developing and achieving product level KPIs. Manages product(s) (data products) with a moderate degree of strategy, scope, and complexity.
- Ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and security by establishing data governance frameworks, defining data quality standards, and implement data management best practices to maintain high data integrity.
- Collaborates with technology and business leadership to align system/application integrations inline with business goals, priorities. Resolves open issues/questions quickly and efficiently.
- Owns and maintains the product backlog and is accountable for its contents and prioritization. Accountable for clear, actionable user stories.
- Sets priorities and actively participates in squad/team quarterly planning. Collaborates with more senior Product Owners to set priorities for program quarterly planning.
- Sets expectations with stakeholders for delivery of new capabilities, features, and functionalities. Participates in team demos, retrospectives, and all other ceremonies.
- Works daily with the agile working group, clarifying business requirements, removing roadblocks, constantly communicating, and supporting alignment around product strategy.
- Monitors and maintains the product health, supporting long-term product viability and efficiency, and balancing long and short term and costs with desired outcomes.
- Analyzes and reports on feasibility, cost of delay ramifications, economies, or other aspects of planned or potential changes to the product.
- Understands regulatory, compliance, and other industry constraints on the product and prioritizes accordingly. Negotiates with internal and external teams to ensure priorities are aligned across squads/teams both within and outside the portfolio.
- Collaborate with stakeholders (Domain Lead(Ops, IT, Data leads)) to understand the business needs and shape the vision and roadmap for data-driven initiatives to alignment with strategic priorities.
- Contributes to the development of the program vision. Communicates product and portfolio vision to their team.
- Work with data scientists, engineers, and designers to ensure that products get built efficiently, meet user needs, and provide actionable insights.
- Analyze data sources, data technologies and vendors providing data services to leverage in the data product roadmap development; Create necessary ER diagrams, data models, PRD/BRD to convey requirements
- Accountable for developing and achieving product level KPIs. Manages product(s) (data products) with a moderate degree of strategy, scope, and complexity.
- Ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and security by establishing data governance frameworks, defining data quality standards, and implement data management best practices to maintain high data integrity.
- Collaborates with technology and business leadership to align system/application integrations inline with business goals, priorities. Resolves open issues/questions quickly and efficiently.
- Owns and maintains the product backlog and is accountable for its contents and prioritization. Accountable for clear, actionable user stories.
- Sets priorities and actively participates in squad/team quarterly planning. Collaborates with more senior Product Owners to set priorities for program quarterly planning.
- Sets expectations with stakeholders for delivery of new capabilities, features, and functionalities. Participates in team demos, retrospectives, and all other ceremonies.
- Works daily with the agile working group, clarifying business requirements, removing roadblocks, constantly communicating, and supporting alignment around product strategy.
- Monitors and maintains the product health, supporting long-term product viability and efficiency, and balancing long and short term and costs with desired outcomes.
- Analyzes and reports on feasibility, cost of delay ramifications, economies, or other aspects of planned or potential changes to the product.
- Understands regulatory, compliance, and other industry constraints on the product and prioritizes accordingly. Negotiates with internal and external teams to ensure priorities are aligned across squads/teams both within and outside the portfolio.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field; Master's degree preferred.
- Experience Commercial & Speciality Insurance products.
- Able to depict and explain the importance of complex ideas, issues and designs to varied audiences; educate SBU/department(s) on business vision and plan and the impact of change.
- Able to influence a diverse group of stakeholders; strong leadership skills.
- Able to make difficult and quick decisions daily.
- Strong problem solver with demonstrated ability to lead a team to push the solutions and progress.
- Experience in the insurance industry preferred.
- Knowledge of relevant products and portfolio preferred.
- Strong experimental mindset to drive innovation amongst uncertainty.
- Good understanding of data technologies, such as databases, data warehouses, and data lakes
- Proven experience (5+ years) as a Data Product Owner, Data Product Manager, or similar role in data or software development or technology industry.
- Familiar with programming languages, such as Python/R/SQL/SAS or cloud technologies like AWS, Azure or other simial paltforms to allow them to work with data scientists and developers to build and deploy data products.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban, and experience working in Agile environments.
- 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 team.
- Strong Presentation and leadership skills
- Experience with product management tools such as JIRA, Trello, or Asana, and proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
- Familiarity with UX/UI design principles, software development lifecycle (SDLC), and software engineering concepts is a plus.
- 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
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field
- Experience with Commercial and Specialty Insurance products
- Ability to explain complex ideas, issues, and designs to varied audiences
- Ability to influence diverse stakeholders and demonstrate strong leadership
- Ability to make difficult and timely decisions
- Strong problem-solving skills and demonstrated ability to lead teams
- Strong experimental mindset and ability to drive innovation under uncertainty
- Understanding of data technologies, including databases, data warehouses, and data lakes
- At least 5 years of experience as a Data Product Owner, Data Product Manager, or similar role
- Familiarity with Python, R, SQL, SAS, AWS, Azure, or similar technologies
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, prioritization, communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills
- Strong presentation and leadership skills
- Experience with JIRA, Trello, Asana, and Microsoft Office Suite
- Ability to capture complex requirements in a prioritized product backlog
- Master's degree
- Experience in the insurance industry
- Knowledge of relevant products and portfolios
- Familiarity with UX/UI design principles, SDLC, and software engineering concepts
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What We Do
Choosing a digital partner is about more than capabilities — it’s about collaboration and character. Unrealistic overhauls and off-the-shelf products ignore what matters most — your unique needs, culture, goals, and your legacy data and technology environments. At EXL, our collaboration is built on ongoing listening and learning to adapt our methodologies. We’re your business evolution partner—tailoring solutions that make the most of data to make better business decisions and drive more intelligence into your increasingly digital operations. Whether your goals are scaling the use of AI and digital, redesign operating models, or driving better and faster decisions, we’re here to partner with you to help you gain—and maintain—competitive advantage with efficient, sustainable models at scale. Our expertise in transformation, data science, and change management helps make your business more efficient and effective, improve customer relationships and enhance revenue growth. Instead of focusing on multi-year, resource- and time-intensive platform designs or migrations, we look deeper at your entire value chain to integrate strategies with impact. We use our specialization in analytics, digital interventions, and operations management—alongside deep industry expertise — to deliver solutions that help you outperform the competition. At EXL, it’s all about outcomes—your outcomes—and delivering success on your terms. Share your goals with us and together, we’ll optimize how you leverage data to drive your business forward. For more information, visit www.exlservice.com.
