Product Owner New Business

Job responsibilities

• Accountable for defining and executing the squad vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap aligned to enterprise and operating model priorities.
• Own translation of business strategy into clearly defined objectives and measurable key results (OKRs).
• Lead and maintain an agile, adaptable squad capable of responding to market, regulatory, and performance changes.
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of product capabilities, from intake through delivery, adoption, and optimization.
• Ensure seamless integration and alignment across adjacent product domains and end-to-end value streams.
• Drive consistent and high-quality customer and operational experiences across all journeys.
• Deliver measurable business outcomes and value realization aligned to defined objectives.
• Own and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring alignment with business value, risk, and compliance requirements.
• Balance delivery across feature development, technical debt, regulatory mandates, and operational stability.
• Ensure delivery readiness through clear, timely user stories with defined requirements, acceptance criteria, and business value.
• Serve as the primary business owner and decision authority for the product, ensuring alignment across key stakeholders.
• Partner closely with technical product management, engineering, architecture, UX/design, and data & analytics to deliver scalable solutions.
• Accountable for agile delivery of high-quality, scalable, and compliant product capabilities.
• Influence architecture and platform decisions to support long-term product and enterprise scalability.
• Ensure auditability, traceability, and governance are embedded within product design and delivery.
• Foster and enable a data-driven culture in partnership with analytics teams.
• Drive continuous improvement across product performance, delivery effectiveness, and team outcomes.

Qualifications/Competencies

• Bachelor’s degree in business, insurance, technology, analytics, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in commercial insurance (P&C) across product, operations, or technology.
• 5+ years in product ownership, product management, or equivalent leadership role.
• Deep expertise in at least one insurance domain (claims, underwriting, billing, etc.).
• Proven ability to own and deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery models and product-centric organizations.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Demonstrated expertise across the end-to-end insurance lifecycle, including submission intake, rating and pricing, triage, new business workflow, underwriting and risk decisioning, bind and issuance, payments, digital enablement, and delivering a seamless customer experience.
• Competency Profile: Strategic thinker with strong business and operational acumen; comfortable operating at both executive and team levels; decisive and accountable for outcomes; strong influencer and collaborator; balances innovation with risk management.