Technical Product Owner

About the role

Kuvare is dedicated to simplifying retirement for consumers and their financial partners. Kuvare offers life insurance and annuity products designed for easy sale and servicing by distributors, carriers, and investors.

Responsibilities

• Plan, prioritize, coordinate, and track IT portion of project timelines, deliverables, milestones, and reporting.
• Define scope, goals, and deliverables within IT in support of higher-level project plans, strategic vision, and organizational goals.
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, and presentations to effectively communicate product expectations and status to team members and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with other Technical Product Owners, project managers, business analysts, project business owners, SMEs, IT Development, QA, and vendors to ensure project deliverables and timelines are aligned.
• Collaborate with the team’s Solution Architect and Scrum Master to ensure technical architecture and work estimation are correct, and that all team members understand the work and the timelines for execution.
• Proactively manage changes in technology, project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans.
• Define product success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout the product life cycle.
• Foster relationships that contribute to the success of the product and associated business capabilities.
• Demonstrate an awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles.
• Actively manage the product backlog for an Agile team.
• Work with the Project Management Organization to translate business requirements documents into product backlog items (user stories, features, bugs, spikes, etc).
• Create product roadmaps, communicate forecasted delivery dates to stakeholders, and manage team feedback.

Qualifications

• Experience preferred with a bachelor's degree in data science, computer science, information systems, computer engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Five or more (preferred 5+ years) of Product Management experience.
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Experience with Waterfall and Agile development methodology and concepts.
• Experience in overseeing the design, development, and / or implementation of software and hardware solutions, systems, or products.
• Industry experience in Financial Services and / or Insurance Services.
• PREFERRED: Experience using Azure DevOps for work item tracking.

Skills/Competencies

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent listening and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to communicate ideas in both technical and user-friendly language.
• Analytical and creative problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Strong customer service orientation.
• Ability to function in multiple delivery facilitation roles as necessary.

Salary Range

$130,000 to $150,000