Sr. Product Owner

At Coaction, we’re a unique mix of leaders, achievers, thinkers, and team players with a high-performance mindset and a diverse skillset. We bring our industry expertise together to continually push the boundaries of what insurance can be for our clients.

Your Role and Impact:
As a Sr. Product Owner, you will:
 

• Strategize and Prioritize:  Take ownership of the team’s backlog, aligning it with business objectives and maximizing value. Collaborate with stakeholders to prioritize features and user stories that align with strategic goals.

• Prioritize: Take ownership of the team’s backlog, aligning it with business objectives and maximizing value. Collaborate with stakeholders to prioritize features and user stories that align with strategic goals.

• Lead Agile Delivery Practices: Act as the primary communicator and facilitator between stakeholders, end users, and delivery teams. Drive iteration planning, backlog refinement, and story acceptance to ensure high-quality deliverables.

• Deliver Results: Lead discussions on dependencies, risks, and quality control measures. Leverage advanced business knowledge and critical thinking to anticipate challenges and address them proactively.

• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with diverse teams - from Underwriting, Finance, Actuarial, Operations and Claims - to understand challenges and opportunities. Drive consistent delivery of program milestones by connecting stakeholders’ vision with actionable development plans.

• Innovate: Introduce new tools and practices to optimize delivery and improve team processes. Contribute fresh ideas that solve business problems and enhance user experiences.

Key Responsibilities:

• Run change boards and maintain a strategically aligned roadmap.

• Define sprint goals and manage team backlog items with a focus on delivering business value.

• Lead elicitation of requirements in the form of user stories and acceptance criteria.

• Conduct stakeholder interviews and facilitate workshops to ensure alignment on goals and vision.

• Regularly refine program backlogs, ensuring features are ready for upcoming sprints.

• Participate in planning, contributing to story definition, estimates, and sequencing.

• Lead system demos and workshops to drive continuous improvement.

• Take ownership of processes from start to finish, ensuring that the team delivers expected outcomes that align with stakeholder expectations.

What You Bring:

• 10+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or Project Manager in an Agile environment.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to constructively challenge, question, and actively listen.

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with experience presenting to senior leaders.

• Proven ability to work autonomously and collaboratively within fast-paced, agile teams.

• Commercial insurance acumen to generate innovative solutions and guide stakeholders through impactful change.

• Familiarity with Duck Creek policy admin system is a plus.

* *This is not available as a fully remote employment. Interested candidates must be willing to work out of our Morristown, NJ office on a hybrid work schedule**

Equal Opportunity Employer

Coaction is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Coaction’s policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. Coaction also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories.

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