Product Owner

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritize the backlogs for assigned teams.
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand business goals, gather requirements and define features and user stories.
• Write clear acceptance criteria that enable successful development and testing.
• Work with development and architecture teams to refine, estimate and prioritize work.
• Serve as the primary decision-maker for story acceptance, ensuring both functional and nonfunctional requirements are met.
• Facilitate backlog refinement sessions and support quarterly and iteration planning.
• Provide ongoing clarification to developers throughout the development lifecycle.
• Balance business priorities, technical considerations and delivery timelines when making prioritization decisions.
• Cook up dependencies across teams and communicate risks, roadblocks and changing priorities.
• Participate in iteration reviews, demonstrations and retrospectives while promoting continuous improvement.
• Build strong relationships across business and technology teams to ensure alignment and successful delivery.
• Help translate technical concepts into clear business language for stakeholders, particularly within data-focused initiatives.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor's degree in Business, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Required: Three to five years of experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst or in a similar business technology role.
• Required: Experience working within an Agile software development environment.
• Required: Experience gathering business requirements and translating them into user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Required: Strong understanding of backlog management and Agile planning practices.
• Preferred: Experience in insurance, financial services or another highly regulated industry.
• Preferred: Experience supporting data-focused products or applications.
• Preferred: Experience using Rally or similar Agile project management tools.