Product Owner, API

About the Company

Travel Insured International is a travel insurance provider with over 30 years of experience, operating within the Specialty Business Unit of the Accident & Health division. The company addresses the need for reliable travel protection plans, enabling individuals to travel with confidence. It serves both consumers and agency partners of various sizes, focusing on dependable coverage and value.

About the Role

The Product Owner, API is responsible for translating strategy into a prioritized feature backlog, ensuring delivery of high-value product increments with measurable business outcomes. The role leads sprint and program increment planning, backlog readiness, story validation, and approval across the software development lifecycle. It plays a key role in API-enabled partner and client integrations, translating external requirements into scalable products and supporting consistent partner onboarding.

Responsibilities

• Apply agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe with focus on predictability and transparency
• Lead agile ceremonies including daily stand ups, refinements, sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives
• Collaborate with Release Train Engineer, business leaders, architecture, and engineering teams to maintain program-level delivery views
• Maintain clear documentation and reinforce processes
• Ensure backlogs are prioritized, scoped, and have final acceptance and release sign-off
• Manage intake, prioritization, and refinement processes
• Certify work products across SDLC including UAT, release readiness, and production deployment approval
• Align cross-functional teams on definitions of ready/done and release standards
• Translate business requests into actionable work with clear understanding of technical aspects
• Partner with stakeholders to support API-based implementations, gathering integration requirements and maintaining documentation
• Address conflicts, dependencies, and delivery risks collaboratively
• Influence stakeholders to align on scope, priorities, and implementation approaches
• Drive continuous improvement through retrospectives and process enhancements

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 3 to 7+ years in product management, business analysis, or systems analysis
• Knowledge of backlog management, agile delivery, and program increment planning
• Experience eliciting requirements and clarifying scope and technical impacts
• Proven ability to influence and align cross-functional teams