Product Owner (Hybrid OR Remote- Raleigh or Jersey City)

About the role

We Enable Possibility℠. We are a company dedicated to fostering a collaborative, innovative environment where our clients, employees, investors, and communities can thrive. Our mission is to enable progress and inspire greatness through our work.

Responsibilities

• Product Backlog Management: Create, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog to align with product vision and strategy, reflecting evolving business needs and priorities.
• User Story Refinement: Ensure user stories are clear, concise, and well-defined, facilitating development by breaking down stories into manageable parts.
• Prioritization: Collaborate with the product manager to focus the team on high-value work, ensuring the backlog reflects the vision and delivery roadmap addresses solutions and delivery expectations.
• Sprint and Increment Planning: Work with the domain product manager and development team to define sprint goals, select user stories, and facilitate sprint planning aligned with team capacity.
• Acceptance Criteria: Define clear acceptance criteria for each user story to ensure quality and delivery expectations are met.
• Release Management: Plan and manage product releases in line with the domain's product and/or initiative delivery strategy, facilitating frequent team conversations to resolve questions and manage dependencies.
• Metrics and Analysis: Track and analyze key product metrics to measure success and identify areas for improvement, ensuring quality standards are met and quality issues are identified and addressed.
• Team Collaboration: Facilitate communication and collaboration between the development team, designers, and other stakeholders, leading the 'voice of the customer' within the Agile development team.

Requirements

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to influence and present complex, technical information to varying stakeholder groups, gather and provide feedback, and effectively engage with diverse teams across the organization.
• Proven experience in playing a product owner role in the development of large scale commercial and specialty systems, with demonstrated value creation and business outcomes.
• Ability to lead, partner, and guide multiple Agile teams (Dev, QA, Design) and business teams in achieving product goals and resolving conflicts.
• Empathy with users and ability to translate and articulate aligned user stories for execution with the development teams.
• Advanced technical and business acumen to effectively articulate the business outcomes and priority, translating into technical user stories for various development teams.
• Proficiency in Agile frameworks like Scrum and SAFe, and tool such as JIRA, Confluence, MIRO, and other product management and roadmap tools.
• Deep understanding of commercial and specialty insurance product lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner and/or SAFe® POPM certification preferred.
• 5-7 years’ prior experience in Insurance, Product Owner with IT development teams in Agile delivery & execution through software development lifecycle using Agile/Scrum/SAFe frameworks or related roles.

Benefits

At Arch, we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being and career growth. This includes:

• Competitive base salary and short and long-term incentives.
• Multiple medical plans plus dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• A competitive 401(k) with generous matching.
• Paid time off starting at 20 days per year.
• Up to 12 paid company holidays per year plus 2 paid days of Volunteer Time Off.
• Basic Life and AD&D Insurance as well as Short and Long-Term Disability.
• Paid Parental Leave of up to 10 weeks.
• Student Loan Assistance and Tuition Reimbursement.
• Backup Child and Elder Care.
• And much more!

Location

Raleigh, NC is strongly preferred. Jersey City, NJ may be considered as a secondary location based on business need. We are also open to remote candidates located on the East Coast.

Application Instructions

To apply, please visit our careers page and follow the instructions there. We look forward to hearing from you!